Now a review again, this time aware we are preparing for the second part
of learning how the truth can be applied. Today we will begin to
concentrate on readiness for what will follow next. Such is our aim for
this review and for the lessons following. Thus we review the recent
lessons and their central thoughts in such a way as will facilitate the
readiness which we would now achieve.

There is a central theme that unifies each step in the review we
undertake, which can be simply stated in these words:

“My mind holds only what I think with God.”

This is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your
Father is. It is this Thought by which the Father gave creation to the
Son, establishing the Son as co-creator with Himself. It is this Thought
which fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his mind no thoughts
can dwell but those his Father shares. Lack of forgiveness blocks this
Thought from his awareness. Yet It is forever true.

Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the many forms
in which the lack of true forgiveness may be carefully concealed.
Because they are illusions, they are not perceived to be but what they
are; defenses which protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen
and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else, and hold
correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.

And yet 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 with
readying our minds to understand the lessons that we read, and see the
meaning which they offer us.

Begin each day with time devoted to the preparation of your mind to
learn what each idea you will review that day can offer you in freedom
and in peace. Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would
deceive, and let this Thought alone engage it fully and
remove the rest:

“My mind holds only what I think with God.”

Five minutes with this Thought will be enough to set the day along the
lines which God appointed, and to place His Mind in charge of all the
thoughts you will receive that day. They will not come from you alone,
for they will all be shared with Him. And so each one will bring the
message of His Love to you, returning messages of yours to Him. So will
communion with the Lord of Hosts be yours, as He Himself has willed it
be. And as His Own completion joins with Him so will He join with you
who are complete as you unite with Him and He with you.

After your preparation, merely read each of the two ideas assigned to
you to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes and say them slowly to
yourself. There is no hurry now, for you are using time for its intended
purpose. Let each word shine with the meaning God has given it as it was
given to you through His Voice. Let each idea that you review that day
give you the gift which He has laid in it for you to have of Him. And we
will use no format for our practicing but this:

Each hour of the day bring to your mind the Thought with which the day
began, and spend a quiet moment with It. Then repeat the two ideas you
practice for the day unhurriedly, with time enough to see the gifts
which they contain for you, and let them be received where they were
meant to be. We add no other thoughts, but let them be the messages they
are. We need no more than that to give us happiness and rest and endless
quiet, perfect certainty, and all our Father wills that we receive as
the inheritance we have of Him.

Each day of practicing, as we review, we close as we began, repeating
first the Thought that made the day a special time of blessing and of
happiness for us; and through our faithfulness restored the world from
darkness to the light, from grief to joy, from pain to peace, from sin
to holiness. God offers thanks to you who practice thus the keeping of
His Word. And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again
before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He
wills you be forever, and are learning now to claim again as your
inheritance.