A Course In Miracles from My Perspective

July 6th 2015  Review I 

Lesson 58
Review of Lessons 36 - 40 

• Intention:  Begin the day by reading the five ideas, with the comments included.  Thereafter, it is not necessary to follow any particular order in considering them, though each one should be practiced at least once.  Devote two minutes or more to each practice period, thinking about the idea and the related comments after reading them over.  Do this as often as possible during the day.  If any one of the five ideas appeals to you more than the other, concentrate on that one.  At the end of the day, however, be sure to review all of them once more.

• Practice:  It is not necessary to cover the comments that follow each idea either literally or thoroughly in the practice periods.  Try, rather, to emphasize the central point of each comment and how it relates to its associated idea.  After reading each idea and its related comments, the exercise should be done with your eyes closed and if possible, when you are alone in a quiet place. 
  Two practice periods (morning and evening) for ten minutes, in which we spend two minutes reading and thinking about each of the five ideas and their associated comments given.  In addition, during the day from time to time, spend at least two minutes thinking about the five ideas in any order, giving emphasis to any that appeal to you.
    
•  Application:  The purpose of your learning is to enable you to bring the quiet with you, and to heal distress and turmoil.  This is not done by avoiding them and seeking a haven of isolation for yourself.  You will yet learn that peace is part of you, and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are.  And finally you will learn that there is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere, as you are.
    
  You will note that, for review purposes, some of the ideas are not given in quite their original form.  Use them as they are given here.  It is not necessary to return to the original statements, nor to apply the ideas as was suggested then.  We are now emphasizing the relationships among the first fifty of the ideas we have covered, and the cohesiveness of the thought system to which they are leading.you.

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(36)  My holiness envelops everything I see.
From my holiness does the perception of the real world come.  Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty.  I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me.  Seen through  understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.
  

(37)  My holiness blesses the world.
The perception of my holiness does not bless me alone.  Everyone and everything I see in its light shares in the joy it brings to me.  Their is nothing that is apart from this joy, because there is nothing that does not share my holiness.  As I recognize my holiness, so does the holiness of the world shine forth for everyone to see.
     

(38)  There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
My holiness is unlimited in its power to heal, because it is unlimited in its power to save.  What is there to be saved from except illusions?  And what are tall illusions except false ideas about myself?  My holiness undoes them all by asserting the truth about me.  In the presence of my holiness, which I share with God Himself, all idols vanish.  
  
(39)  My holiness is my salvation.
Since my holiness saves me from all guilt, recognizing my holiness is recognizing my salvation.  It is also recognizing the salvation of the world.  Once I have accepted my holiness, nothing can make me afraid.  And because I am unafraid, everyone must share in my understanding, which is the gift of God to me and to the world.
     
(40)  I am blessed as a Son of God.
Herein lies my claim to all good and only good.  I am blessed as a Son of God.  All good things are mine, because God intended them for me.  I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of Who I am.  My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things.  His care for me is infinite, and is with me forever.  I am eternally blessed as His Son.
     

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Insights/comments:

• Who we are is much more important that what we do, what we have done, and what we will do in the future.  Who we are as the holy children of God is the most important thing in the universe, for this is what dictates how we experience everything.  We cannot avoid who we really are, but we can pretend that we are something other than what God created us to be.  Yet in our make-believe pretense we fail to truly understand anything about our experience, and this will not change until we acknowledge that our divine identity is the most basic and most important thing about us.  Our divinity is the foundation on which we stand and form which we experience everything.  We can deny it, at our own peril, but we cannot change it for it is established by our unchanging Creator.  When we choose to acknowledge and embrace it, it will bring great benefit to every aspect of our lives, for it is a blessing from our loving Creator.

I and my Creator are One.