Day171

Review V

We now review again. This time we are ready to give more effort and more time to what we undertake. We recognize we are preparing for another phase of understanding. We would take this step completely, that we may go on again more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld more surely. Our footsteps have not been unwavering, and doubts have made us walk uncertainly and slowly on the road this course sets forth. But now we hasten on, for we approach a greater certainty, a firmer purpose and a surer goal.

Steady our feet, our Father. Let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word, and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.

So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.

This is the one thought which should precede the thoughts that we review. Each one but clarifies some aspect of this thought, or helps it be more meaningful, more personal and true, and more descriptive of the holy Self we share and now prepare to know again:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

This Self alone knows Love. This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its Thoughts; knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its Love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself.

And it is this that waits to meet us at the journey's ending. Every step we take brings us a little nearer. 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.

Let this review become a time in which we share a new experience, yet one as old as time and older still. Hallowed our Name. Our glory undefiled forever. And our wholeness now complete, as God established it. We are His Sons, completing His extension in our own. 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 each day of our review. With this we start and end each period of practice time. And with this thoughts 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.

Yet are the words but aids, and to be used, except at the beginning and the end of the practice periods, but to recall the mind, as needed, to its purpose. We place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. We wait for the experience, and recognize that it is only here conviction lies. We use the words, and try and try again to go beyond them to their meaning, which is far beyond their sound. The sound grows dim and disappears, as we approach the Source of meaning. It is Here that we find rest.

Today's Review:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

(151) All things are echoes of the Voice for God.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

(152) The power of decision is my own.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

Miracles I'm noticing:

As I really internalize the review and the lessons here, everything in my outer world seems so much less important. The minute details that may have caused me upset before don't have that same effect on me.

The Bigger Small Talk Summit I've been so passionate about over the past three months is coming next week and over the last week people are steadily withdrawing from the event and asking for their money back. Their schedules just don't allow them to attend at this time. That means I am facing a dilemma: cancel the event or go forward in confidence that whatever happens is the only thing that could have. Although I have $6000 in expenses for the event and no assurance that the registrations will cover those expenses, I'm not rattled like I may have been without this course. I am confident that God will provide me the wisdom and creativity to allow a fantastic event for all who participate, and will help me find sponsors to help defray the expenses.

I am choosing to let go and let God ... and am envisioning a room full of engaged and happy people participating in an event which will change their lives and the lives of those in their circles.

Sending love to everyone involved is much more productive than hitting a terror barrier and stopping the momentum.

All is well!