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ACIM Workbook Practice Session Review: Lessons 201 – 220
These practice sessions are centered around a central theme with which we start and end each lesson. It is this:
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
The day begins and ends with this. We repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see. Beyond this, no form of exercise is urged, except a deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity and simple truth.
Get beyond all words and special forms. Attempt to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of God. Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged. If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would have. Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for the idea we practice for the day.
When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
This thought I do not want. I choose instead _________ .
We will add but a few formal expressions or specific thought to aid in practicing. We give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.
Let Him teach you what to do and say and think, each time you turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to you, each time you call to Him to help you. Allow Him to teach you how to go and trust Him completely for the way each practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.
I am not a body. I am free.For I am still as God created me.
I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
No one but is my brother. I am blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creator of the whole that is my Self, forever One with me.
I will be still an instant and go home.
Why would I choose to stay an instant more where I do not belong, when God Himself has given me His Voice to call me home?
I call upon God’s Name and on my own.
The Name of God is my deliverance from every thought of evil and of sin, because it is my own as well as His.
The Name of God is my inheritance.
God’s Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.
I want the peace of God.
The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home.
Salvation of the world depends on me.
I am entrusted with the gifts of God, because I am His Son. And I would give His gifts where He intended them to be.
I bless the world because I bless myself.
God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need but turn to Him and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.
The peace of God is shining in me now.
I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart which witnesses to God Himself.I feel the Love of God within me now.
The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.
I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy, for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead of what I made.
I am the holy Son of God Himself.
In silence and in true humility I seek God’s glory, to behold it in the Son whom He created as my Self.I have a function God would have me fill.
I seek the function that would set me free from all the vain illusions of the world. Only the function God has given me can offer freedom. Only this I seek, and only this will I accept as mine.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me. What I learn of Him becomes the way I am set free. And so I choose to learn His lessons and forget my own.
I place the future in the Hands of God.
The past is gone; the future is not yet. Now am I freed from both. For what God gives can only be for good. And I accept but what He gives as what belongs to me.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
The Holy Spirit is my only Guide. He walks with me in love. And I give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go.
It can be but myself I crucify.
All that I do I do unto myself. If I attack, I suffer. But if I forgive, salvation will be given me.
It can be but my gratitude I earn.
Who should give thanks for my salvation but myself? And how but through salvation can I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?
Only my condemnation injures me.
My condemnation keeps my vision dark, and through my sightless eyes I cannot see the vision of my glory. Yet today I can behold this glory and be glad.
I am not a body. I am free.
I am God’s Son. Be still, my mind, and think a moment upon this. And then return to earth, without confusion as to what my Father loves forever as His Son.
There is no peace except the peace of God.
Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on other roads than this. But let me follow Him Who leads me home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
