July 10th 2014 Review III
Lesson 114
- Intention: To review two thoughts each the day
- Practice:
Devote the first and the last Five-minutes of the waking day
reviewing the ideas for the day. In addition repeat one thought on the
hour and the other on the half-hour during the day.
- Application:
-- For the two five-minute sessions, read over the ideas and comments
given for each day's exercises. Think about them while letting your
mind relate them to your needs, your seeming problems and all your
concerns. Give the ideas to your mind and let it use them as it
chooses. Have faith that your mind will use them wisely, being helped
by the One Who gave the thoughts to you. Give direction at the onset;
then lean back in quiet faith, and let the mind employ the thoughts you
gave as they were given.
- Application: -- For the hourly and half-hourly exercises, Repeat one thought on the hour and the other one half an hour later and allow your mind to rest for a minute or two
in silence and in peace. Then return to your day but try to keep the
thought with you, and let it serve to hep you keep your peace throughout
the day as well.
These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of
applying what you learn each day to everything you do, so use the
thoughts and they will serve you in all ways, times, places, and
situations. Take them with you in the business of the day and make them
holy.
For morning and evening five-minute reviews
(95) I am spirit.I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.
(96) I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.
What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?
For one-minute practice:On the hour:
I am spirit.
On the half hour:
I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.
Insights/comments:
- I
am as God created me, spirit and one with Himself. Spirit is not
subject to time, space or causation, or limits, and this is what it
means to be perfect. Perfection cannot change, cannot become more
perfect nor diminish in any way. This is the essential characteristic
of spirit and of what we, as children of God are. We are who we are; we
cannot change that in any way, but we can be unaware of it, or even
deny it and pretend to be something that we are not--human. We are
spirits having a human experience. We are no more human than we are the
close we wear, or the car we drive or house we liven in. These are all
things that we have but who we are is spirit, and that is an important
and critical distinction.
- God's
plan for me is salvation. It is my get-out-of-jail ticket; the way to
remember who I really am as He created me; His plan for my return to
peace. To not accept my part in God's plan is to remain a prisoner, to
not remember my true identity, and to not be at peace. God's plan is
for my benefit, so to not accept my part in it is to go against my own
self interest, which can only be insanity. The human experience is
God's way of allowing us to peruse our curiosity about what life would
be like outside His creation, which cannot exist in reality for there
is nothing outside of God's creation. So the next best way to fulfill
this desire would be a full blown three-dimensional make-believe fantasy
world in which we temporarily forget that we are immortal spirits and pretend
to be human, limited, frail and mortal. And God's plan for salvation
is our ticket out of our fantasy world, our return-to-reality ticket. Thus,
we get to eat our cake and still have it; we get to play in the sandbox
for a time, but we also get to go home when we're done. That's the
ticket! : )
I and my Creator are One. 
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