Lee Flynn
2011-04-21 12:58:46 UTC
ACIM Workbook Review III ~ April 21
http://courseinmiracles.com/workbook_lessons/part_1/review111-120.htm
http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/
" Review III ~ Introduction
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 a special format for
these practice periods, [which] you are urged
to follow {just} 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 ** 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 cannot control.
Learn to distinguish situations [which]
are poorly suited to your practicing
from those [which] you establish to uphold
[the] 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 {practicing
can} offer everything {to you. And so}
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
{considering the thoughts that are} assigned.
Read over the ideas and comments [which]
are written [first in] each day's exercise.
{And} then begin to think about them {while}
letting your mind relate them to your needs,
your seeming problems and <all> your concerns.
Place the ideas 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 ** direction at
the [start, and] then lean back in quiet faith,
and let {the mind employ the thoughts you gave}
as they were given you {for it to use}.
You have been given them in perfect trust;
in <perfect> confidence that you would use
them well; in perfect faith that you would {see}
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 Spirit's chosen means
for your salvation. {Since it has} His trust,
{His means must surely merit} 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 {practice only at
appointed times} and then go on {your way}
to other things, without applying what
you learned to them. As a result, {you have
gained} little reinforcement, and have not
given [it the opportunity] to prove
{how great are its potential gifts} 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, [then] 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 {as well}.|
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 God's 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
{with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith}.
Do not forget how little you have learned.
Do not forget how much you can learn now.
Do not forget your Father's need of you,
as you review these thoughts He gave to you. "
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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[ Hear Today's Lesson in I.P. ~ Voice & Music by Maz ]
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or via http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/
http://courseinmiracles.com/workbook_lessons/part_1/review111-120.htm
http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/
" Review III ~ Introduction
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 a special format for
these practice periods, [which] you are urged
to follow {just} 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 ** 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 cannot control.
Learn to distinguish situations [which]
are poorly suited to your practicing
from those [which] you establish to uphold
[the] 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 {practicing
can} offer everything {to you. And so}
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
{considering the thoughts that are} assigned.
Read over the ideas and comments [which]
are written [first in] each day's exercise.
{And} then begin to think about them {while}
letting your mind relate them to your needs,
your seeming problems and <all> your concerns.
Place the ideas 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 ** direction at
the [start, and] then lean back in quiet faith,
and let {the mind employ the thoughts you gave}
as they were given you {for it to use}.
You have been given them in perfect trust;
in <perfect> confidence that you would use
them well; in perfect faith that you would {see}
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 Spirit's chosen means
for your salvation. {Since it has} His trust,
{His means must surely merit} 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 {practice only at
appointed times} and then go on {your way}
to other things, without applying what
you learned to them. As a result, {you have
gained} little reinforcement, and have not
given [it the opportunity] to prove
{how great are its potential gifts} 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, [then] 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 {as well}.|
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 God's 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
{with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith}.
Do not forget how little you have learned.
Do not forget how much you can learn now.
Do not forget your Father's need of you,
as you review these thoughts He gave to you. "
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
------------------------------------------
[ Hear Today's Lesson in I.P. ~ Voice & Music by Maz ]
http://www.acimradio.net/wkbk/111a_UrWork_ReviewIII_Introduction.wma
or via http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/