Is our search working?

If you will keep in mind what the Holy Spirit offers you, you cannot be vigilant for anything but God and His Kingdom. The only reason you may find this hard to accept is because you may still think there is something else. Belief does not require vigilance unless it is conflicted. If it is, there are conflicting components within it that have led to a state of war, and vigilance has therefore become essential. Vigilance has no place in peace. It is necessary against beliefs that are not true, and would never have been called upon by the Holy Spirit if you had not believed the untrue. When you believe something, you have made it true for you. When you believe what God does not know, your thought seems to contradict His, and this makes it appear as if you are attacking Him. T-7.VI.7: 1-8

A Course in Miracles (p. 260). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

What is the opposite of the non dual Oneness of God, our Transcendent Source? It is the belief in the idols of the ego. So what is it that we think, deep down, will make us happy? The answer is only the Truth of God. But we get tempted to believe that the idols of the world of ego will make us happy. We are told this continually and most of us not only believe it, we turn these idols that promise us happiness into gods whether it be money, power, sex, knowledge, etc.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The biggest factor in success in our quest is where we search. As the song says, we are looking for love in all the wrong places. So today's passage from ACIM encourages us to be vigilant. And as long as we are conflicted about where happiness is to be found, vigilance is helpful. When we know, though, that happiness is to be found in the non dual Oneness with our Transcendent Source, vigilance is no longer necessary.

Today it is suggested that we consider where we are looking for happiness and how our search is working for us and whether we are looking in the right places.