Lesson 217

Review VI

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About This Review

This is a review lesson in the ACIM Workbook. Review lessons revisit earlier ideas, allowing them to deepen and integrate into your awareness. Each review period is an opportunity to see these ideas with fresh eyes and a more receptive mind.

Practice Guidance

The review lessons are designed to consolidate the ideas you've been practicing. Spend time with each idea being reviewed, letting it settle more deeply than before. You may notice that ideas which seemed abstract or difficult when you first encountered them now carry a different quality.

Don't rush through the review. Each idea deserves your full, unhurried attention. You might find that your understanding has shifted in subtle ways since you first practiced these lessons.

Contemplation

As you review, notice which ideas resonate more strongly now than they did initially. This natural deepening is part of the workbook's design — each review builds on the foundation of daily practice.

From Walking the Workbook

Four days remain in this stretch. Beloved, here we are.

The Workbook gives today's applied idea. Receive what is offered.

In this final week of Part I, the practitioner sometimes notices a small reverence arising. Not for anything in particular. For the practice itself. For what has been happening across the year. For the willingness that has, despite missed days, despite resistance, despite the loud weeks when the practice fell away, returned.

This reverence is not produced. It arrives. The Course says that gratitude is the natural response of the mind that is recognizing what has been given. The reverence is a form of that gratitude. We do not need to manufacture it. We need only to receive it when it comes.

For today. Read today's lesson in the Workbook. Repeat the affirmation. Let any reverence that arises be welcomed.

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Walking the Workbook, Volume Two is the ACIM.live companion for Lessons 121 through 240 — the middle third of the year, including the central forgiveness lessons and the closing of Part I. Read more about the book →

*This is original commentary and practice guidance. For the complete lesson text, please visit The Foundation for Inner Peace.*