By Gonny 
Imagine this: You wake up in the morning, and instead of scrolling through the latest news of global disasters and celebrity divorces, you sit up, take a deep breath, and think: Today, I choose joy, peace, and love.
Sounds simple, right? But then the coffee machine breaks, someone cuts you off in traffic, and suddenly your spiritual enlightenment feels as fragile as a soap bubble in a hurricane.
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) tells us that joy, peace, and love are not things we need to find—they are already within us. The only problem? We’re too busy reacting to illusions to notice them. The world is like a badly written soap opera, full of drama that doesn’t actually matter, but we act like it does.
Joy is not something that happens to you—it’s something you are. It’s that feeling of laughing at your own seriousness, of realizing that no mistake is permanent, and that even your worst day is just a cosmic prank designed to make you wake up.
Peace is not something you achieve—it’s what’s left when you stop chasing illusions. The ego loves to throw bait: “They disrespected you!” “You need to fix this!” “If you don’t worry, something bad will happen!” And like an overeager fish, we bite every time.
But what happens when we just… don’t? When we refuse to engage with the drama and instead smile like a Zen master who knows that all of this is just a dream? That’s peace. Not from controlling the world, but from realizing you don’t have to.
Love is the only thing that truly exists. Everything else—fear, anger, guilt—is just a misunderstanding. Love doesn’t require effort; it’s our default setting. The problem? We keep choosing the “manual override” called judgment.
Now go forth and be ridiculously, irrationally, contagiously happy—because that’s who you really are.
With love and light,
G.