We are on review lessons. Today would be a good day to re-read the Introduction to Review III of A Course in Miracles which asks you to be consistent and devoted to practicing the lessons every day and every hour exactly as stated.
“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. Do not deceive yourself in this.”
DO NOT DECEIVE YOURSELF IN THIS.
“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.”
If you say you do not have time to practice the lessons in the morning or there are too many distractions, be honest with yourself. Could you get up an hour earlier in the morning before anyone else is up?
If you say you are too busy, be honest with yourself. Busy doing what? These lessons ask that you:
“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 hour later. You need not give more than just a moment to each one.”
So the question is: are you so busy that you do not have a moment?
Then you need to slow down. This is a RED-LIGHT indication that you need to make time. It’s exactly like the stop lights on the streets. You don’t go barreling through a red light, do you? You stop. You don’t justify and make excuses by saying that you don’t have time to stop. That would cause chaos and accidents – which, by the way, is EXACTLY what happens when you don’t stop in your own life.
You are asked to stop every 30 minutes. Just take a break. Stop what you are doing. And do this:
“Repeat it (the daily lesson), 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.”
You could even practice these lessons at the red stop lights while you are in your car!
Just get in the practice of stopping every few miles. Use the brakes once in a while. Stop your planning, organizing and worrying … for a moment. Just stop and rest in God. You’ll begin to see the miracles which are all around you, but which you couldn’t see because you were too busy speeding through life.
Here are today’s review lessons:
God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.
