Days 181-200

Dear readers,

I know that I have fallen off the map these last few weeks.  After our previous review period, and as I entered the end-of-year frenzy while wrapping up work and preparing to leave town for the holidays, I have neglected my writing.  For this I am sorry.

It has been tough to commit to my initial plan of posting a new blog each day.  In addition to reading the text and meditating upon the workbook lessons in the Course, writing and publishing a blog has become a part-time job in and of itself.  As the lessons have progressed, I have also begun to find myself at a loss for words.  What can I say that has not been said already?  In progressing through A Course in Miracles, it seems to me that we are covering ground which we have already walked upon.  The same ideas are being repeated over and over again, in alternate arrangements of the same words.  How can my own writing here be any different?

Perhaps the repetition is necessary, like the repetitive motion of piercing the earth with the sharp blade of a shovel.  To reach the treasure buried underneath, we must continue digging.  We must continue to revisit the same Holy Thoughts in their many variations in order to move past the faulty ways of thinking which the world has encrusted in our minds.

And so, as we move forward, forgive me for recycling what you may have read already.  I will also be adopting a new schedule for my writing.  No longer will I post here every day.  Such a commitment has become too taxing for me to continue while preserving the integrity of the Course work for myself.  Instead, I will write a new post at the conclusion of each section of the workbook.

Just yesterday, we began the Sixth Review period.  Unlike the previous review sections, this one focuses on only one lesson per day for the twenty lessons we are revisiting.  After this final review, which concludes Part One of the workbook, I will share my own thoughts and feelings and any related experiences for the topics introduced in lessons 181-200, which are repeated in lessons 201-220.  To bring you up to speed, below is a list of the lessons we have recently covered and will continue to revisit over the next few weeks.  During the review period, we are asked to meditate upon each lesson morning and night, adding the following before and after the idea for the day: I am not a body.  I am free.  For I am still as God created me.

181. I trust my brothers, who are one with me.
182. I will be still an instant and go home.
183. I call upon God's Name and on my own.
184. The Name of God is my inheritance.
185. I want the peace of God.
186. Salvation of the world depends on me.
187. I bless the world because I bless myself.
188. The peace of God is shining in me now.
189. I feel the Love of God within me now.
190. I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
191. I am the holy Son of God Himself.
192. I have a function God would have me fill.
193. All things are lessons God would have me learn.
194. I place the future in the Hands of God.
195. Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
196. It can be but myself I crucify.
197. It can be but my gratitude I earn.
198. Only my condemnation injures me.
199. I am not a body.  I am free.
200. There is no peace except the peace of God.

Again, I apologize for my absence as of late.  I hope that when I pick up my writing here again, you will continue to join me on this journey.  Let us dig together so that we may reach the treasure buried deep within.

I wish you all a blessed and joyful holiday season and a new year filled with hope, love and laughter.

Until next time,
Journeyman