Workbook · Part I · Review
Lesson 118
Review of lessons 105–106
What this lesson is saying
Today is a review, not a new idea. The workbook asks you to take earlier lessons — 105 (“God's peace and joy are mine.”); 106 (“Let me be still and listen to the truth.”) — and use them on one real irritation. Reciting titles is not the review.
Pick one person, one thought about yourself, or one situation that is actually bothering you. Run each reviewed idea on that same thing. Notice which one you want to skip. That one is the work.
You still need not believe any of it. Use it. Then live the hour — work, home, the next encounter — from the one you actually used.
This is not saying
This is not a lighter day and not a reading assignment. A review that never touches a real face is how the ego keeps the year as a book report.
Why this can change a day
The early ideas only become yours when they meet a life. Review is the test: which sentence did you actually use on a judgment, an attack thought, a belief about yourself, or a relationship? That is the curriculum.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
Spiritual specialness — the costume, the glow, needing it known that you see.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 105–106.” Do one kindness no one will post. If you need it known, it was not this. Function is local — one face, one hidden hour.
Toward yourself
A delay that ‘proves’ the world is against you — traffic, a wait, a plan that stalled.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 105–106.” You have invented the meaning, not the asphalt. Take that invented law off for one hour. Speak to this day, not to the theory.
At work, at home, or in a situation
Anger or fear is on — this spike, now — and you are about to rehearse the argument.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 105–106.” Say the idea to the spike. Wait until the body drops half an inch. Then choose the next sentence from there. The caveat is the work.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
Light is a performance. They should notice. Forgiveness is a side project after the real work of being impressive. Reciting the titles is enough. This situation can wait.
Jesus’s way
“Review of lessons 105–106.” Review is whether you used the ideas on a real person — this situation, not a new philosophy. The ones you only admired are the curriculum.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #319
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 118
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- After the reading, this sitting is a review. He checks whether you used the ideas on an irritation — not whether you can recite “Review of lessons 105–106.”
- The ideas under today: 105, 106. Which did you actually use on a person? The ones you only admired are the curriculum.
How to sit today
Review III · Lessons 91–110
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- Two ideas — Lesson 105 and Lesson 106. Five minutes (or longer) morning and evening. Then a brief review each hour: one idea on the hour, the other on the half hour
- How long
- Five minutes twice a day, preferably the first five minutes of the day and the last five before sleep. Longer if you prefer
- Through the day
- Each hour, a moment — not more is required. Use one idea on the hour and the other a half hour later. Let the mind rest a little in silence, then keep the thought with you.
- When shaken
- If you are shaken, think of it again. These sittings are for forming the habit of applying what you learn to everything you do.
- If you forget
- Learning is not hampered when you miss because the time was truly impossible — do not ritualize catching up. Learning is hampered when you skip because you are unwilling. Do those missed sittings as soon as you change your mind about your goal.
How
- Read the two ideas and comments. Then think about them quietly, letting your mind relate them to your needs, problems, and concerns.
- Place the ideas in the mind and let it use them. Give direction at the start, then lean back in quiet faith.
Longer sitting
Five minutes (or longer) morning and evening — preferably the first five minutes of the day and the last five before sleep
- Two ideas: Lesson 105 — “God's peace and joy are mine.”. Lesson 106 — “Let me be still and listen to the truth.”.
- Read the two ideas and comments. Then think about them quietly, letting your mind relate them to your needs, problems, and concerns.
- Place the ideas in the mind and let it use them. Give direction at the start, then lean back in quiet faith.
Short / hourly
Each hour: one idea on the hour, the other on the half hour — a moment, not more is required
- On the hour: “God's peace and joy are mine.”. Let the mind rest a little in silence, then keep the thought with you.
- On the half hour: “Let me be still and listen to the truth.”. Same form.
When shaken
If you are shaken
- Think of the ideas again. These sittings are for forming the habit of applying what you learn to everything you do.
Rituals are not the aim and would defeat the goal. Distinguish a poorly suited situation from a camouflage for unwillingness.
Ideas in this review
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
Review is not a lighter day. In the 2019 commentary he treats “Review of lessons 105–106” as a check: which of these ideas did you use in a real situation, and which did you only admire? Skimped ideas are the curriculum. Do the review as the workbook asks, then let him speak to the ones you still argue with.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
This lesson is practice in polarizing with the person in front of you. Service to others is not a slogan. It is whether you treat them as the same being you are.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
Open stream