Day 201

REVIEW VI

Introduction

For this review we take but one idea each day, and practice it as often as is possible. Besides the time we give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the hourly remembrances we make throughout the day, use the idea as often as we can between them. Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly. Each would be enough to give release to us and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite the memory of God to come again.

With this in mind we start our practicing, in which we carefully review the thoughts the Holy Spirit has bestowed on us in our last twenty lessons. Each contains the whole curriculum if understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happening throughout the day. One is enough. But from that one, there must be no exceptions made. And so we need to use them all and let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.

These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central theme with which we start and end each lesson. It is this:

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

The day begins and ends with this. And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see. Beyond this, and a repetition of the special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity and simple truth.

We will attempt to get beyond all words and special forms of practicing for this review. For we attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God. We merely close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood. For thus is freedom given us from all we did not know and failed to understand.

There is but one exception to this lack of structuring. Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. If we notice one, we are to deny its hold and hasten to assure our minds that this is not what it would have. Then gently let the thoughts which we denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.

When we are tempted, hasten to proclaim our freedom from temptation, as we say:

This thought I do not want. I choose instead __________.

And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what we thought. Beyond such special applications of each day's idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific thoughts to aid in practicing. Instead, we give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.

To Him is offered this review for us. We are placed in His charge, and He will teach us what to do and say and think, each time we turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to us, each time we call to Him to help us. Let us offer Him the whole review we now begin, and let us also not forget to Whom it has been given, as we practice day by day, advancing toward the goal He set for us; allowing Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.

Today's Review:

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(181) I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

No one but is my brother. I am blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creator of the whole that is my Self, forever One with me.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Miracles I'm noticing:

Yesterday as I was driving to an appointment, I happened to glance over at the man driving the really big pickup on my right. There was nothing special about this man or his truck or anything about him. In fact, he didn't even look at me as I glanced at him. But all of a sudden I felt a huge wave of love for him. It almost made me teary. And in that moment, I really got what could happen in the universe if we all practiced love instead of fear. It was an amazing feeling.

I also was reminded yesterday of the bigger talk that is going on around me. I have several very close friends who also are on a path of love instead of fear (the people in my Course study, but also other friends) and one of them called me last night to help her walk through something that had happened at her work that day. She wanted to know what she had done to attract this situation and just wanted some support in thinking it through for herself. I was reminded how very significant that request was because that might have seemed to some people like a chance to complain about how someone else had said some regrettable words and to get some sympathy for the way she was treated. That is not what my friend was looking for. She wanted help in cleaning her own slate which had somehow attracted that attack into her space. What a different conversation it was between us - and how much bigger and more loving will the conversation be between the two of them if my friend chooses to seek closure in love!

I'm so very blessed and grateful for all the wonderful people in my circle of friends, in my city, in my state, my region, my country, and my world. I learn so much every day, and am continually reminded how beautiful and perfect everything is. It is true that we find whatever it is we are seeking; as I seek for truth and beauty and love, there it is - right in front of my face. What a miracle!