July 15th 2014 Review III
Lesson 119
- 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
(107) Truth will correct all errors in my mind.I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. I am God's Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.
(108) To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness.
On the hour:For one-minute hourly and half hourly practice:
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
On the half hour:
To give and to receive are one in truth.
Insights/comments:
- It is said that "truth alone triumphs*" and "the truth shall set you free.**" Christ said that "I am the way the truth and the light***..." a simple but supremely profound statement of what He truly is. These and similar statements remind us that we are as God created us, perfect, spirit, free. We share God's essential nature, which is Truth, because She created us one with Herself. This is the truth we have forgotten, and which, when we remember it, will set us free of all the illusions we have made to the contrary.
Truth is eternal and unchanging. We are now, always was, and forever will be one with God. We cannot live apart from God for She is the world in which we exist; She is everything that is, including the life force that sustains us. And we are as She is, even though we have no memory of our past and cannot imagine a future past our 'normal' lifespan, for we currently perceive ourselves to be mortal, limited, frail, and lost. These are not characteristics of the Eternal, omnipotent God, so they cannot possibly be part of Her creation and they therefore have no real existence. We the holy children of God fell into a deep sleep and dreamed the impossible dream of what life would be like apart from God, and in our dreams we made up this make-believe world we see around us of individual bodies and things that seem to exist independent of each other. This is but a dream, and all dreams must eventually come to an end. We cannot escape our lineage as the holy children of God. It is our truth; it is in us; it is who we really are; it is our destiny! And it is the acceptance of this truth that dispels the dream of separation and corrects all errors in our mind.
- To give and to receive are one in truth because in truth we are all one. Like the waves of the ocean that seem to be separate but are all part of the one ocean, so do we seem to be separate from each other and from the things around us but we are all part of our one Creator. Who then is the giver, what is the given, and who the receiver? We are the giver, the gift given, and the receiver. We give only ourselves to ourselves and receive only ourselves from ourselves for we are eternally united with everything and with God. Or said another way, God is the Giver, the Receiver, and the Gift, for She is in everything and everything is in Her.
** Bible: John 8:32
*** Bible: John 14:6
I and my Creator are One. 
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