Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 171.
Review Lessons 151 and 152.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
Review Lesson 151.
All things are the echoes of the voice of God.
In this review,
We watch our thoughts appealing silently to God,
Who sees the elements of truth in all things.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind,
Remove the elements of dreams,
And give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the will of God.
Say quietly to yourself,
All things are echoes of the voice for God.
As we give God our thoughts,
God gives them back to us as miracles,
Miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness that God wills his child,
As proof of eternal love.
As each thought is thus transformed,
It takes on a healing power from the mind which saw the truth in it,
From the mind that was not deceived by what was falsely added by the ego.
All the threads of fantasy are removed.
What remains is unified into a perfect thought that offers its perfection everywhere.
So now give your thoughts to God.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind,
Remove the fantasy,
And give the thoughts back to God as clean ideas that do not contradict God's will.
Remember,
As we give God our thoughts,
God gives them back to us as miracles.
I'll be silent while you give your thoughts to God.
Give your thoughts to God.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind,
Remove the fantasy,
And give the thoughts back to God.
All things are the echoes of the voice of God.
Give your thoughts to God.
Let God evaluate each thought that comes to mind.
As we give God our thoughts,
God gives them back to us as miracles.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
All things are the echoes of the voice of God.
Steady our feet,
Father.
Let our doubts be quiet.
Let our holy minds be still and speak to us.
We have no words to give to you.
We will listen to your word and make it ours.
Lead our practicing,
As does a father lead a little child along the way they do not understand.
Yet do they follow,
Sure that they are safe,
Because their father leads the way for them.
So do we bring our practicing to you.
If we stumble,
We know you will raise us up.
If we forget the way,
We count upon your sure remembering.
If we wander off,
We know you will not forget to call us back.
Second our footsteps now that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto you.
We accept the word you offer us to unify our practicing as we review the thoughts that you have given us in these lessons.
Lesson 152 God is love,
Therefore the power of decision is my own.
What can God know of the ephemeral,
The sinful,
And the guilty?
What can God know of the afraid,
The suffering,
And lonely?
What can God know of the mind that lives within a body that must die?
You accuse God of insanity to think that God made a world where such things seem to have a reality.
God is not mad,
Yet only madness makes a world like this.
To think that God made chaos contradicts God's will.
To think that God invented opposites to truth.
To think that God suffers death to triumph over life.
All this is arrogance.
Humility would see at once these things are not of God.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
The power of decision is my own.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
I repeat,
The power of decision is my own.
Ponder on this.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
The power of decision is my own.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
The power of decision is my own.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
The power of decision is my own.
God is love,
Therefore so am I.
All things are the echoes of the voice of God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
