July 8th 2014 Review III
Lesson 112
- 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
(93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.
I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him.
(94) I am as God created me.
I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me.
One-minute practice:On the hour:
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
On the half hour:
I am as God created me.
Insights/comments:
- God created us as the light of the world; this is what we are; this is our function. We can deny it, but we cannot change it in any way, and it is in accepting it that we experience the peace and joy of God. All things are peaceful and happy when performing their function: fish are happy when they can swim; birds are happy when they fly; the children of God are happy when we share our light with the world.
We could, with a little stretch, say the same for objects. A light bulb, for instance, is made to give light, if it denies its function, it remains in darkness, but it is still a light blub, and when it accepts its function of giving light, we can "say" it is experiencing peace and joy. I know this is a personification, but the deeper truth is that everything is a part of God, and therefore one with Him.
- Practice, practice, practice! It is in the practicing that the we remember our perfection.
I and my Creator are One. 
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