Our third review begins today. We will review two of the last twenty ideas each
day until we have reviewed them all. We will observe the special format for
these practice periods, which you are urged to follow as closely as you can.
We understand, of course, that it may be impossible for you to undertake what
is suggested here as optimal each day and every hour of the day.
Learning will not be hampered when you miss a practice period because it is
impossible at the appointed time. Nor is it necessary that you make excessive
efforts to be sure that you catch up in terms of numbers. Rituals are not our
aim, and would defeat our learning goal.
But learning will be hampered when you skip a practice period because you are
unwilling to devote the time to it which you are asked to give. Do not deceive
yourself in this. Unwillingness can be most carefully concealed behind a cloak
of situations you can not control. Learn to distinguish situations which are
poorly suited to your practicing from those which you establish to uphold a
camouflage for your unwillingness.
Those practice periods which you have lost because you did not want to do them
for whatever reason should be done as soon as you have changed your mind about
your goal. You are unwilling to cooperate in practicing salvation only if it
interferes with goals you hold more dear. When you withdraw the value given
them, allow your practice periods to be replacements for your litanies to them.
They gave you nothing. But your practice periods offer you everything. Accept
their offering and be at peace.
The format you should use for these reviews is this: Devote five minutes twice
a day, or longer if you would prefer, to contemplating the ideas assigned. Read
over the ideas and comments which are written first in each days exercises.
Then begin to think about them quietly, letting your mind relate them to your
needs, your seeming problems and all your concerns.
Place the idea within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it
faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One
Who gave the thoughts to you. What can you trust but what is in your mind? Have
faith, in these reviews, the means the Holy Spirit uses will not fail. The wisdom
of your mind will come to your assistance. Give it direction at the start, then
lean back in quiet faith, and let it use the ideas you have given it as they
were given you.
You have been given them in perfect trust; in perfect confidence that you would
use them well; in perfect faith that you would understand their messages, and
use them for yourself. Offer them to your mind in that same trust and confidence
and faith. It will not fail. It is the Holy Spirits chosen means for your salvation.
And with His trust merits yours as well.
We emphasize the benefits to you if you devote the first five minutes of the
day to your review and also give the last five minutes of your waking day to
it. If this cannot be done, at least try to divide them so you undertake one
in the morning, and the other in the hour just before you go to sleep.
The exercises to be done throughout the day are equally important, and perhaps
of even greater value. You have been inclined to do the exercises and then go
on to other things, without applying what you learned to them. As a result,
your learning has had little reinforcement, and you have not given it the opportunity
to prove its worth to you.
Here is another chance to use it well. In these reviews we stress the need to
let your learning not lie idly by between your longer practice periods. Attempt
to give your daily two ideas a brief but serious review each hour. Use one on
the hour, and the other one a half an hour later. You need not give more than
just a moment to each one.
Repeat it, and allow your mind to rest a little time in silence and in peace.
Then turn to other things, but try to keep the thought with you, and let it
serve to help you keep your peace throughout the day. If you are shaken, think
of it again. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit of
applying what you learn each day to everything you do.
Do not repeat it and then lay it down. Its usefulness is limitless to you. And
it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you
need help of any kind. Try, then, to take it with you in the business of the
day, and make it holy, worthy of Gods Son, acceptable to God and to your Self.
Each day’s review assignment will conclude with a restatement of the thought
to use each hour, and the one to be applied on each half hour as well. Forget
them not. This second chance with each of these ideas will bring such large
advances that we come from these reviews with learning gains so great that we
begin again on solid ground.
Do not forget how little you have learned. Do not forget how much you can learn
now. Do not forget your Fathers need of you, as you review these thoughts He
gave to you.
111: Lessons 91 & 92 ~ 112: Lessons 93 & 94 ~ 113: Lessons 95 & 96 ~ 114: Lessons 97 & 98
115: Lessons 99 & 100 ~ 116: Lessons 101 & 102 ~ 117: Lessons 103 & 104 ~ 118: Lessons 105 & 106
119: Lessons 107 & 108 ~ 120: Lessons 109 & 110
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