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Daily Lesson 111 ~
April 21

Introduction to Review of Lessons 91-110

Review Lessons 91 and 92

Introduction to Review of Lessons 91-110

We now begin our third time of review. We will review two lessons every day for the next ten days, allowing us to review all twenty recent lessons. We will observe a special format for the practice periods for these ten review days, which you are urged to follow as closely as you can.

Devote five minutes twice a day, or longer if you would prefer, to contemplating together the two recent lessons assigned. First read over the ideas and comments that are written in each day’s review exercise. Then begin to think about them quietly, letting your mind relate them to your needs, your seeming problems, and all your concerns. Place the ideas within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the ideas to you.

You can trust what is in your mind that is of the Divine. In these reviews, then, have faith that the Means the Holy Spirit uses will succeed. The wisdom of your mind will come to your assistance. Give it direction at the start, and then rest in quiet faith and let it use the ideas you have given it as they were given you. You have been given them with perfect Trust and Confidence that you would use them well; with perfect Faith that you would understand their Messages and use them for yourself. Offer these ideas to your mind in that same Trust, Confidence, and Faith. It will not fail. It is the Holy Spirit’s chosen Means for your awakening. And Spirit’s Trust merits yours as well.

The benefits to you are emphasized if you devote the first five minutes of your waking day, or as close to waking as possible, to your review of both lessons for the day, and also the last five minutes of your waking day, or as close to sleeping as possible, to this review. If this cannot be done, at least try to arrange your day so you undertake one five-minute review period in the morning, and the other in the hour before you go to sleep.

The exercises to be done throughout the day are equally important, and perhaps of even greater value. There may so far have been an inclination to do the exercises and then go on to other things, without applying what you are learning in the exercises to the other things you go about in your day. As a result, your learning will have had little reinforcement, and you will not have given it the opportunity to prove its worth to you. Here is another opportunity to use your learning well, and thus to strengthen it.

In these review days we stress the need not to let your learning lie idly by between your longer morning and evening practice periods. Attempt to give the two lessons you are reviewing each day a brief but serious reflection each hour of your waking day. Review the first lesson on the hour, and the other one on the half hour, as indicated. You need not give more than just a few moments to each of these brief reflection times. Repeat the lesson assigned and allow your mind to rest a little time in silence and in peace. Then turn to other things, but try to keep the lesson with you, and let it serve to help you keep your peace throughout the day. If you become shaken, think again of the lesson you recently held in silence.

This arrangement is planned to help you form the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do and experience. After you briefly hold the lessons on the hour and half hour, try to keep them in awareness until the next half hour. Their Usefulness is limitless to you, and It is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind. Try, then, to take these ideas with you in the business of the day, and make them holy, worthy of your efforts, and acceptable to the Divine and to your holy Self.

This second opportunity to apply each of these twenty ideas will bring such large advances that we will come from this time of review with learning gains so great that we will go forward with confidence firmly on more solid ground. Consider how much of this Course there is yet to learn. Remember how much you can learn now. Remember your Creator’s Need of you and yours of your Creator, as you review these Thoughts It has given to you.

 

Review Lessons 91 and 92

For morning and evening review:

 

Lesson 91. Miracles are seen in the Light of the world.

I cannot see in darkness. Let the Light of Holiness and Truth light up my mind, and let me see the Innocence within.

 

Lesson 92. Miracles are seen in the Light of the world, and Light and Strength are One.

I see through Strength, the Gift of the Divine to me. My weakness is the dark Its Gift dispels by giving me Its Strength to take its place.

 

On the hour: “Miracles are seen in the Light of the world.”

On the half hour: “Miracles are seen in the Light of the world, and Light and Strength are One.”

 

Corresponding Text Section

 

Chapter 8: The Journey Home

 

3. Divine and Human Will

If the Divine’s Will for you is complete Peace and Joy, unless you experience only this you must be refusing to allow Its Will to be complete in your experience. Divine Will does not vacillate, being changeless forever. When you are not at peace and filled with Joy, it can only be because you do not believe you are in the Divine. Yet It is All in All. Its Peace and Joy are complete, and you must be included in Them completely. Its Laws govern you because they govern Everything. You cannot exempt yourself from Its Laws, although you can deny Them. But if you do, and only if you do, you will feel lonely and helpless, because you are then denying yourself Everything.

I am come as a light into this world that does deny itself Everything. It does this simply by dissociating itself from Everything. It is therefore an illusion of isolation, maintained by fear of the same loneliness that is its illusion. I have said that I am with you always even to the end of the world. That is why I am the Light of the world, being One with It along with you. If I am with you in the loneliness of this world, then the loneliness is gone. The illusion of loneliness cannot be maintained if you are not alone. My purpose, then, is to overcome the world with you. I do not attack it, but the Light of the world in me and you must dispel it because of what It is and what we are. Light does not attack darkness, but It does shine it away. If the Light we share goes with you everywhere, then you shine away this world with me. Through sharing It the Light becomes ours, and in this Light you cannot abide in darkness, any more than darkness can abide anywhere you go.

The remembrance of me is the remembrance of yourself and of the Divine, Who sent me to you. Every separated one was in darkness until the Divine’s Will was done completely by any Part of the Divine Family. When It was, It was perfectly accomplished by all. How else could It be perfectly accomplished? My Mission was simply to reunite the Will of all Children of the Divine – including those who had fallen asleep – with the Will of the Creator by being aware of the Creator’s Will as my own. This is the awareness I came to give you, and your problem in accepting it is the problem of this world. Dispelling this problem means awakening, and in this sense I am the awakening of the world, with you.

This world of illusions must “despise and reject” me because this world is the belief that perfect Love is impossible, and therefore that I am impossible. Your reaction to me at times reflects the reaction of the world to the Divine. However, if you accept the fact that I am with you, which I must be because you are hearing me, then you are denying the world of illusions and accepting the Divine. My will is the Divine’s, and your will to hear me is the decision to hear Its Voice and abide in Its Will. As It sent me to you, so will I send you to others. And I will go with you to them, so we can teach them Union and Peace and Joy together.

Do you think the world needs Peace as much as you do? If you do, you will want to give It to the world as much as you want to receive It. Unless you do want to give this, you will not receive It. If you will to have It of me, you must give It with me. Rehabilitation as this Course defines It does not come from anyone outside yourself. You can have guidance from without, but you must accept it from within. The guidance must become what you want or else it will be meaningless to you. That is why Rehabilitation is a collaborative venture. I can tell you what to do, but this will not really help you unless you collaborate by believing that I know what to do. Only then will your mind will to follow me, that is, to follow with me in the Way demonstrated by me. Without your will, Rehabilitation cannot be accomplished. Therefore motivation to be healed is the crucial factor in Rehabilitation. Without this, you are deciding against healing, and your veto of my will for you will make healing temporarily impossible. If healing is our joint will, then unless our wills are joined you cannot be healed. This is obvious when you consider what healing is for.

Healing is the way in which the separation is overcome. Separation is overcome by Union. It cannot be overcome by separating. The will to unite must be unequivocal, or the will itself will be separated and not whole. Your will is the means by which you determine your own condition, because will is the mechanism of decision. It is the power by which you separate or join, and experience pain or Joy accordingly. My will cannot overcome yours, because yours is as powerful as mine, both being the Will of our Creator. If it were not so, the Children of the Divine would be unequal.

All things become possible through our joint will. But my will alone will not help you. Your will is as free as mine, and the Divine Itself will not go against it. I cannot will what the Divine does not will. I can offer you my will to help you remember the Invulnerability of yours by this sharing, but I cannot oppose yours without competing with it and thereby violating the Divine’s Will for you. Nothing the Divine created can oppose your will, as nothing the Divine created can oppose Its Will. The Divine gave your will Its Power, which I can only acknowledge in honor of the Divine’s.

If you want to be like me I will help you, knowing that we are alike. If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind. I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to and learn my teaching. How else can it be if the Divine’s Realm is Freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind, and the perfect Equality of all the Divine’s Children cannot be recognized through the dominion of one will over another. The Divine’s Children are equal in will, all being the Will of their Creator. This is the only Lesson I can teach, knowing that It is true.

When your will is not one with mine, it is not our Creator’s Will. This means that you have imprisoned yours by not allowing it to be free. Of ourselves alone we can do nothing, because of ourselves alone we are nothing. We are nothing without our Creator, and we are nothing without each other because denying each other denies the Creator. I will always remember you, and in my remembrance of you is your remembrance of your sisters and brothers, including me. In our remembrance of each other is our Remembrance of the Divine. And in this Remembrance is your Freedom, because your Freedom is in the Divine.

Join then with me in praise of the Divine and all Its Creations. This is our gift of gratitude to It, which It will share with all Its Creations, to whom It gives equally whatever is acceptable to It. Because our gratitude is acceptable to the Divine, it is the Gift of Freedom, which is the Divine’s Will for all Its Children. By offering Freedom you will be free, because Freedom is the only Gift that you can offer to the Divine’s Children, being an acknowledgment of what they are and what the Divine is.

Freedom is Creation because it is Love. What you seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone, including yourself, you do not love them and you cannot identify with them. When you imprison yourself, you are losing sight of your true Identification with me and with the Creator. Your Identification is with the Creator and with the Divine Family. It cannot be with one and not the other. If you are part of one, you must be part of the other because they are One.