T. 21. VIII. 3 – 5. Jesus: “Reason will tell you that you cannot ask for real happiness inconstantly. For if what you truly desire you do receive, and happiness is eternally constant, then you need truly ask for it but once to have it always. And if you do not have it always, being what it is, it simply means you did not truly ask for it!
For no one fails to ask for something he desires of what he believes holds out some promise of the power of giving it. He may be wrong in what he asks, where, and of what. Yet he will ask because desire itself is a request, an asking for, and made by one whom God Himself will never fail to answer.
God has already given all that one really wants. Yet what he is uncertain of wanting, God cannot give. For he does not desire it wholly while he remains uncertain, and God’s giving must be incomplete unless it is received.
You who complete God’s Will and are His happiness, whose will is powerful as His, a power that is not lost in your illusions, need to think carefully why you have not yet decided your answer to that final question, ‘Do I want to see what I’ve denied before, because it is the truth?’ Your answer to the others has made it possible to help you be already partly sane. And yet it is the final one that really asks if you are willing to be wholly sane.
What is the holy instant but God’s appeal to you to recognize what He has given you? Here is the great appeal to reason; the awareness of what is always there to see, the happiness that could be always yours. Here is the constant peace you could experience forever. Here is what denial has denied, revealed to you. For here you realize the final question is already answered, and what you ask for given!
Here is the future now, for time is powerless because of your desire for what will never change. For you have asked that nothing stand between the holiness of your relationship and your awareness of its holiness!”