A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

September 14th 2014  Review V 

Lesson 180 

• Intention:  To review two thoughts each the day, along with our central theme for this review:  God is but love and so am I.  
    
  

  This review will shorten time immeasurably, if we keep in mind that this remains our goal, and as we practice it is this to which we are approaching.  Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.  We practice but an ancient truth we knew before illusion seemed to claim the world. And we remind the world that it is free of all illusions every time we say:
    
  
  

  God is but love and therefore so am I.

     

  With this we start and end each period of practice time. And with this thought we sleep, to waken once again with these same words upon our lips, to greet another day. No thought that we review but we surround with it, and use the thoughts to hold it up before our minds, and keep it clear in our remembrance throughout the day.  And thus, when we have finished this review, we will have recognized the words we speak are true.

• Practice:  Spend five minutes with this thought, at the beginning of the day and just before you sleep, letting your mind engage it fully, while letting go of all other thoughts.  These few minutes will place His Mind in charge of all the thoughts you will receive each day and which you will share with everyone; this is your communion with God.
   
•  Application:  After you preparation, merely read each of the two ideas assigned to you to be reviewed that day, beginning and ending with the central theme for this review.  Then close your eyes and say them slowly to yourself.  Let each word shine with the meaning God has given it, as it was given to you through His Voice.  Let each idea you receive each day give you the gift that He has laid in it for you to have of Him.  And we will use no format for our practicing but this:       
    
  • Each hour of the day, bring to your mind the thought with which the day began, and spend a quiet moment with it. 
      
  • Then repeat the two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see the gifts that they contain for you, and let them be received where they were meant to be.  
     
  We add no other thoughts, but let these be the messages they are.  We need no more than this to give us happiness and rest, and endless quiet, perfect certainty, and all our Father wills that we receive as the inheritance we have of Him.  Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating first the thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of happiness for us; and through our faithfulness restored the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin to holiness.

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God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(169) By grace I live. By grace I am released..
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.



God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(170) There is no cruelty in God and none in me.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

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I and my Creator are One.