Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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Now we review again, this time aware we are preparing for the second
part of learning how the truth can be applied. Today we will begin to
concentrate on readiness for what will follow next. Such is our aim for
this review and for the lessons following. Thus we review the recent
lessons and their central thoughts in such a way as will facilitate the
readiness which we would now achieve.
2 There is a central theme that unifies each step in the
review we undertake, which can be simply stated in these words:
3 My mind holds only what I think with God.
4 This is a fact and represents the truth of what you are and
what your Father is. It is this thought by which the Father gave
creation to the Son, establishing the Son as co-creator with Himself. It
is this thought which fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his
mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares. Lack of
forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. Yet it is forever
true.
5 Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the
many forms in which the lack of true forgiveness may be carefully
concealed. Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but
what they are—defenses which protect your unforgiving thoughts from
being seen and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else
and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.
6 And yet your mind holds only what you think with God. Your
self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child
who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the
tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon on it
by night. So do we start each practice period in this review with
readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read and see the
meaning which they offer us.
7 Begin each day with time devoted to the preparation of your
mind to learn what each idea you will review that day can offer you in
freedom and in peace. Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that
would deceive, and let this thought alone engage it fully and remove the
rest:
8 My mind holds only what I think with God.
9 Five minutes with this thought will be enough to set the
day along the lines which God appointed and to place His Mind in charge
of all the thoughts you will receive that day. They will not come from
you alone, for they will all be shared with Him. And so each one will
bring the message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to
Him. So will communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself
has willed it be. And as His own completion joins with Him, so will He
join with you who are complete as you unite with Him and He with you.
10 After your preparation, merely read each of the two ideas
assigned to you to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes and say
them slowly to yourself. There is no hurry now, for you are using time
for its intended purpose. Let each word shine with the meaning God has
given it as it was given to you through His Voice. Let each idea that
you review that day give you the gift which He has laid in it for you to
have of Him. And we will use no format for our practicing but this:
11 Each hour of the day bring to your mind the thought with
which the day began and spend a quiet moment with it. Then repeat the
two ideas you practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see
the gifts which they contain for you, and let them be received where
they were meant to be. We add no other thoughts, but let them be the
messages they are. We need no more than this to give us happiness and
rest and endless quiet, perfect certainty, and all our Father wills that
we receive as the inheritance we have of Him.
12 Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we
began, repeating first the thought that made the day a special time of
blessing and of happiness for us and through our faithfulness restored
the world from darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to
peace, from sin to holiness. God offers thanks to you who practice thus
the keeping of His Word. And as you give your mind to the ideas for the
day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace
wherein He wills you be forever and are learning now to claim again as
your inheritance.