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Lesson 176: Review of Lessons 161 and 162

Reframe:  Love is all that is; therefore, I welcome the blessings that surround me.

Suggested Practice:
From Review V Introduction:

”Let this review become a time in which we share a new experience for you, yet one as old as time and older still.²Hallowed your Name. ³Your glory undefiled forever. ⁴And your wholeness now complete, as God established it. ⁵You are His Son, completing His extension in your own. ⁶We practice but an ancient truth we knew before illusion seemed to claim the world. ⁷And we remind the world that it is free of all illusions every time we say:”

⁸God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

“With this we start each day of our review. ²With this we start and end each period of practice time. ³And with this thought we sleep, to waken once again with these same words upon our lips, to greet another day. ⁴No thought that we review but we surround with it, and use the thoughts to hold it up before our minds, and keep it clear in our remembrance throughout the day. ⁵And thus, when we have finished this review, we will have recognized the words we speak are true.” (ACIM, W-rV.in.10:1–11:5)

With these reviews from 171-180, we’re encouraged to “place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. … We use the words, and try and try agin to go beyond them to their meaning, which is far beyond their sound. The sound grows dim and disappears, as we approach the Source of meaning. It is Here we find rest.”

In other words, the “words” are the doorway to experiencing the essence of what the words mean.

Today we take this approach with these two review lessons:

161 Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
162 I am as God created me. God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

Message

I am as God created me.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

You are as God created you.
God is but Love, and therefore so are you.

We are as God created us.
God is but Love, and therefore so are we.

Given that premise, we are all Children of God, united as one true Self. This makes us equal in God’s light. And in that light, asking a holy sibling for a blessing feels like the most natural request.

And what is this blessing? It is the ability, while in human form, to see the holy light in others. I think of it this way: our human form is just a costume we, as consciousness, wear to exist on this earthly plane. Seeing past the costume, acknowledging their light, and interacting from that higher state—that is how we bless each other.

For instance, one area where I could do more blessing is driving. For some reason, my ego mind tends to take the wheel in the car—which means the “blessings” I’m giving other drivers are hardly ACIM-aligned. I could simply say “Namasté” (cliché, I know, but effective) to acknowledge the light in them. That small act would bless them, and bless me with more peace in return.

“My ego wants to control the show. But it has old recipes, old solutions.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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