Week 26, Lessons 173-179, Academy for the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, 6/28/25

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opening song by Taj Mahal
Take a giant step

Though you failed at love and lost
And sorrow's turned your heart to frost
I will mend your heart again
Remember the feeling as a child
When you woke up and morning smiled
Its time its time its time you felt like that again

CHORUS:
There is just no percentage in remembering the past
Its time you learned to live again and love at last
Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind

You stare at me with disbelief
You say for you there's no relief
But girl I swear it won't do you no harm
Don't sit there in your lonely room
Just looking back inside that gloom
Mama that's not were you belong

Come with me I'll take you where the taste of life is green
N' Everyday everyday hold on woman just got to be seen
Come with me leave your yesterday your yesterday behind
And take a giant step outside your mind
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Themes For Our Review today:

²Yet your Redeemer liveth and abideth in you in the peace out of which He was created. ³Would you not exchange this awareness for the awareness of your fear? ⁴When we have overcome fear—not by hiding it, not by minimizing it, and not by denying its full import in any way—this is what you will really see. ⁵You cannot lay aside the obstacle to real vision without looking upon it, for to lay aside means to judge against. ⁶If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and will judge truly. ⁷He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him, and He cannot take it from you.
☀️[CE T-12.IV.6:2-7]

I see nothing as it is now.
“…the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. ⁵These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding.”
☀️[CE W-9.1:4-5]

3 Today we ask of God the gift He has most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged. ²This the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation’s final step Himself….
4 God loves His Son. ²Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later.
☀️[CE W-168.4:1-2]

8 All that is asked of you is to make room for truth. ²You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. ³All you are asked to do is let it in; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.

⁴Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altar free of what you placed upon it, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. ⁵The holy instant is not an instant of creation but of recognition. ⁶For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. ⁷Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be there, plainly in sight and wholly independent of inference and judgment.
☀️[CE T-21.II.5-8]

God is but love, and therefore so am I.

7 If you were not part of God, His will would not be unified. ²Is this conceivable? ³Can part of His Mind contain nothing? ⁴If your place in His Mind cannot be filled with anyone except you, and your filling it was your creation, without you there would be an empty place in God’s Mind. ⁵Extension cannot be blocked, and it has no voids. ⁶It continues forever, however much it is denied. ⁷Your denial of its reality arrests it in time but not in eternity.
☀️[CE T-11.I.7]

4 Deny not Heaven. ²It is yours today but for the asking. ³Nor need you perceive how great the gift, how changed your mind will be, before it comes to you. ⁴Ask to receive and it is given you. ⁵Conviction lies within it. ⁶Till you welcome it as yours, uncertainty remains. ⁷Yet God is fair. ⁸Sureness is not required to receive what only your acceptance can bestow.
☀️[CE W-165.4]

The power of reason

⁸There is no reason in insanity, for it depends entirely on reason’s absence. ⁹The ego never uses it, because it does not realize that it exists.

11 The partially insane have access to it, and only they have need of it. ²Knowledge does not depend on it and madness keeps it out. ³The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated by your will in union with your Father’s to the undoing of insanity. ⁴Here was the Holy Spirit’s purpose accepted and accomplished, both at once. ⁵Reason is alien to insanity, and those who use it have gained a means which cannot be applied to sin. ⁶Knowledge is far beyond attainment of any kind, but reason can serve to open doors you closed against it.
☀️[CE T-21.V.10-12]

2 Loudly the ego tells you not to look inward, for if you do, your eyes will light on sin and God will strike you blind. ²This you believe, and so you do not look. ³Yet this is not the ego’s hidden fear, nor yours who serve it. ⁴Loudly indeed the ego claims it is—too loudly and too often. ⁵For underneath this constant shout and frantic proclamation, the ego is not certain it is so. ⁶Beneath your fear to look within because of sin is yet another fear, and one which makes the ego tremble: What if you looked within and saw no sin? ⁷This “fearful” question is one the ego never asks. ⁸And you who ask it now are threatening the ego’s whole defensive system too seriously for it to bother to pretend it is your friend.
☀️[CE T-21.IV.2]

9 Your ancient fear has come upon you now, and justice has caught up with you at last. ²Christ’s hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone. ³You even think the miserable self you thought was you may not be your identity.
☀️[CE W-166.9:1-3]

10 Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. ²Our life is not as we imagine it. ³Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is?
☀️[CE W-167.10:1-3]