ACIM Workbook Review III ~ April 21 [from WSV]
http://courseinmiracles.com/acourseinmiracles/workbook/review181-200.htm
" Review III ~ Introduction
W-pI.rIII.in.1.
Our next review begins today. 2 We will
review two recent lessons every day
for ten successive days of practicing.
We will observe a special format for
these practice periods, that you are urged
to follow just as closely as you can.
W-pI.rIII.in.2.
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. 4 Rituals
are not our aim, and would defeat our goal.
W-pI.rIII.in.3.
But learning will be hampered when you skip
a practice period because you are
unwilling to devote the time to it
that you are asked to give. 2 Do not deceive
yourself in this. 3 Unwillingness can be
most carefully concealed behind a cloak
of situations you cannot control.
Learn to distinguish situations that
are poorly suited to your practicing
from those that you establish to uphold
a camouflage for your unwillingness.
W-pI.rIII.in.4.
Those practice periods that 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. 5 But your practicing
can offer everything to you. 6 And so
accept their offering and be at peace.
W-pI.rIII.in.5.
The format you should use for these reviews
is this: Devote five minutes twice a day,
or longer if you would prefer it, to
considering the thoughts that are assigned.
Read over the ideas and comments that
are written down for 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.
W-pI.rIII.in.6.
Place the ideas within your mind, and let
it use them as it chooses. 2 Give it faith
that it will use them wisely, being helped
in its decisions by the One Who gave
the thoughts to you. 3 What can you trust but what
is in your mind? 4 Have faith, in these reviews,
the means the Holy Spirit uses will
not fail. 5 The wisdom of your mind will come
to your assistance. 6 Give direction at
the outset; then lean back in quiet faith,
and let the mind employ the thoughts you gave
as they were given you for it to use.
W-pI.rIII.in.7.
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. 3 It will not fail.
It is the Holy Spirit's chosen means
for your salvation. 5 Since it has His trust,
His means must surely merit yours as well.
W-pI.rIII.in.8.
We emphasize the benefits to you
if you devote the first five minutes of
the day to your reviews, and also give
the last five minutes of your waking day
to them. 2 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.
W-pI.rIII.in.9.
The exercises to be done throughout
the day are equally important, and
perhaps of even greater value. 2 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. 3 As a result, you have
gained little reinforcement, and have not
given your learning a fair chance to prove
how great are its potential gifts to you.
Here is another chance to use it well.
W-pI.rIII.in.10.
In these reviews, we stress the need to let
your learning not lie idly by between
your longer practice periods. 2 Attempt
to give your daily two ideas a brief
but serious review each hour. 3 Use
one on the hour, and the other one
a half an hour later. 4 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 as well.
W-pI.rIII.in.11.
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 the thought and 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. 6 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.
W-pI.rIII.in.12.
Each day's review assignments will conclude
with a restatement of the thought to use
each hour, and the one to be applied
on each half hour as well. 2 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
we will continue on more solid ground,
with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith.
W-pI.rIII.in.13.
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. "
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