July 16th 2014 Review III
Lesson 120
- 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 the morning and evening five-minute reviews
(109) I rest in God.I rest in God today, and let Him work in me and through me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty.
(110) I am as God created me.
I am God's Son. Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself, and let my Father tell me Who I really am..
On the hour:For the one-minute hourly and half hourly practice:
I rest in God
On the half hour:
I am as God created me.
Insights/comments:
- "I am one with God" means that I am inseparable from God; that wherever I am, whoever I think I am, whatever the situation I am in, God is always with me. This means that I need not worry, nor fear for anything for God is invincible and being one with Him means that I too am invincible. My body seems subject to time, space and causation, but my essential nature (Spirit) is one with God, and therefore invincible. Knowing this is the basis for eliminating fear form my experience. There is no need for it from the standpoint of Spirit, but even in this world of time and space, I can be more at peace if I remember that God is always with me, and that by placing my trust in Him even here on Earth, I can cast off the influence of "good" and "evil," and live a life free from suffering.
I and my Creator are One. 
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