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 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.
I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while,
that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are
overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I
know they have no meaning. Yet a Savior must remain with those he teaches,
seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out,
and now will lead you out with him. God's Son is crucified until you walk
along the road with me.
My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at
which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed each time a brother learns
there is a way from misery and pain. I am reborn each time a brother's mind
turns to the light in him and looks for me. I have forgotten no-one. Help me now
to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me.
Release me as you practice once again the thoughts I brought to you from Him Who
sees your bitter need, and knows the answer God has given Him. Together we
review these thoughts. Together we devote our time and effort to them. And
together we will teach them to our brothers. God would not have Heaven
incomplete. It waits for you as I do. I am incomplete without your part in me.
And as I am made whole, we go together to our ancient home, prepared for us
before time was and kept unchanged by time, immaculate and safe, as it will be
at last, when time is done.
Let this review be then your gift to me. For this alone I need; that you will
hear the words I speak and give them to the world. You are my voice, my eyes, my
feet, my hands, through which I save the world. The Self from Which I call to
you is but your Own. To Him we go together. Take your brother's hand, for this
is not a way we walk alone. In him I walk with you and you with me. Our Father
wills His Son be One with Him. What lives but must not then be one with you?
Let this review become a time in which we share a new experience for you, yet
one as old as time, and older still. Hallowed your name. Your glory undefiled
forever. And your wholeness now complete, as God established it. You are His
Son, completing His extension in your 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 thought
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 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.
171: Lessons 151 & 152 ~ 172: Lessons 153 & 154 ~ 173: Lessons 155 & 156 ~ 174: Lessons 157 & 158
175: Lessons 159 & 160 ~ 176: Lessons 161 & 162 ~ 177: Lessons 163 & 164 ~ 178: Lessons 165 & 166
179: Lessons 167
& 168 ~ 180: Lessons 169 &
170
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