ACIM Lesson 180a Review 169

Your mind holds only what you think with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. No more than can a child who throws a stick into the ocean change the coming and the going of the tides, the warming of the water by the sun, the silver of the moon on it by night. So do we start each practice period in this review by readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read, and see the meaning that they offer us.

All quotes are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©2007, Third Edition used with permission from the publisher and copyright holder, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, acim org.

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Welcome to Active Meditation,

A Course in Miracles,

Lesson 180,

Review,

Lesson 169.

By grace I live,

By grace I am released.

Steady our feet,

Father.

Let our doubts be quiet.

Let our holy minds be still and speak to us.

Lead our practicing.

We will listen to your word and make it ours.

We accept the word you offer us to unify our practicing.

As we review the thoughts that you have given us in these lessons,

Is love,

Therefore,

So am I.

We have repeated several times before that you make a journey that is already done.

There is no need to further clarify what no one in the world can understand.

When revelation of your oneness comes,

It will be known and fully understood.

We have work to do,

For those in time can speak of things beyond and listen to words which explain what is to come is past,

Already,

Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who still count the hours and rise and work and go to sleep by the words?

You have work to do,

To play your part.

The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done.

It does not matter,

For your part is still what all the rest depends on.

As you take the role assigned to you,

Salvation comes a little nearer,

Each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God.

Say to yourself,

Say in your mind,

By grace I live,

By grace I am released,

By grace I live,

By grace I am released.

Grace is the central theme that runs throughout salvation,

Holding all its parts in meaningful relationships,

Directing the course it runs and making its outcome sure.

Now we ask for grace,

The final gift salvation can bestow.

We ask for grace and for experience that comes from grace.

We welcome the release grace offers everyone.

We do not ask for the unaskable.

We do not look beyond what grace can give,

For we can give in the grace that has been given to us.

Our learning goal today does not exceed this prayer,

Yet what could be more than what we ask this day of the one who gives the grace we ask,

As it was given to him.

By grace I live,

By grace I am released.

By grace I give,

By grace I will release.

Ponder on this.

By grace I live,

By grace I am released.

By grace I give,

By grace I will release.

You make a journey that is already done.

There is no need to further clarify what no one in the world can understand.

When revelation of your oneness comes,

It will be known and fully understood.

By grace I live,

By grace I am released.

By grace I give,

By grace I will release.

Nothing real can be threatened.

Nothing unreal exists.

Herein lies the peace of God.