Lesson 166: “I am entrusted with the gifts of God.”
This lesson says, “He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself.”
The ego’s whole energy and intention is dark and dense.
The ego is always taking our stories and weaving them into elaborate nightmares from which we cannot escape.
The ego gives us constant struggle because our egos are attached to pain.
This is definitely the hard part, and it is also inevitably within everything, unless we stay committed to releasing this old pull we have to the ego’s insanity. The ego’s plan has no hope, and it believes there is nothing but desperation. The ego thinks all the unpleasant stuff will happen to us because that is our due.
The Course reminds us that God has a totally different angle. God has not even the slightest amount of intensity.
God is light, powerfully light, but always light.
The problem is that our egos always tend to view us as living in the nightmare no matter how things look.
Things could be happy or sad, but the ego always puts a heavy shadow over everything, so the ego’s perception always is dark.
That means we will forget to laugh.
The Course says that the only problem is that we forgot to laugh.