[acimlessons_list] Review IV, Lesson 142 - May 22

[Sue Roth]

Review IV, Lesson 142 - May 22

"My mind holds only what I think with God."

(123) "I thank my Father for His gifts to me."

(124) "Let me remember I am one with God."

PRACTICE INSTRUCTIONS

See Review IV practice instructions.

COMMENTARY

That my mind holds only what I think with God is not something I have to
work at to attain. It is not a thought to be repeated like a purgative, to
drive out opposing thoughts, with the undertone of "I have to <make> my mind
have only God's thoughts in it." That my mind holds only what I think with
God is "a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your
Father is" (W-pI.rIV.In.2:3).

As we were told early in the Workbook, when we think that we are thinking
without God, we are not really thinking at all; our mind is actually blank.
"While thoughtless ideas preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked.
Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that
it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to
vision" (W-pI.8.3:2-3). "Now we are emphasizing that the presence of these
'thoughts' means that you are not thinking" (W-pI.10.3:2).

The Thoughts of God that fill my mind in reality are my Father's gift to me.
I am opening my mind, today, to His Thoughts. What I ordinarily think of as
thoughts that interfere or conflict with God's Thoughts are like the static
on a radio that interferes with the actual signal. They are not thoughts;
they are static, they are noise. The signal is still there, but the static
needs to be tuned out so that the signal can come through. The truth about
me is that I am one with God; His Mind is my mind, His Thoughts are my
thoughts. I am not something other than what He is. This is "the truth of
What you are and What your Father is."

To say that my mind holds only what I think with God can be a joyous
affirmation of the truth. It can remind me of His gifts to me, and remind me
that I am one with Him. That in me which seems contrary to God, distant from
God, or opposed to God, is not who I am; it is not my reality. It is without
meaning. There is nothing opposed to God in my mind. Another way of putting
that is that what seems to be in me, opposing God, is actually nothing; it
is an illusion or a hallucination, with no power and no strength of its own.
It is empowered only when I believe in it. Today, I choose to deny that
anything not of God has any power over me. I choose to remember what my
reality is. I choose to remember that I am one with God.