Workbook · Part I · Review
Lesson 148
Review of lessons 135–136
What this lesson is saying
Today is a review, not a new idea. The workbook asks you to take earlier lessons — 135 (“If I defend myself I am attacked.”); 136 (“Sickness is a defense against 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
You are about to punish with silence, a look, a remark at the door.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 135–136.” Wait. If a fact is needed, say only the fact. Leave the wish to hurt. You do not have to stay in the room.
Toward yourself
Tomorrow is on trial — a meeting, a what-if, a verdict not yet in — and this hour is already lost.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 135–136.” Make the one plan that is actually due. Come back. This hour has a next step. Take it. Leave the later hour.
At work, at home, or in a situation
The year, or the sitting, feels finished — a certificate, a rest from seeing, judgment can come back.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 135–136.” This instant — not a diploma. Give it. You will take it back when the judgment starts. Give it again. The commentary ends. The practice does not.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
They started it. A sharp edge would settle this. If I wait I will be a doormat. Reciting the titles is enough. This situation can wait.
Jesus’s way
“Review of lessons 135–136.” 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 #350
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 148
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 135–136.”
- The ideas under today: 135, 136. Which did you actually use on a person? The ones you only admired are the curriculum.
How to sit today
Review IV · Lessons 121–140
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
“My mind holds only what I think with God.”
- How often
- Morning preparation, hourly remembrance, and the same close at night
- How long
- Five minutes with the central theme is enough to set the day. Hourly: a quiet moment. Evening: repeat the opening
- Through the day
- Each hour, bring back the opening thought, then repeat Lessons 135 and 136 unhurriedly.
How
- Open the mind. Clear it of thoughts that would deceive. Let this thought alone engage it: “My mind holds only what I think with God.”
- Then merely read the two ideas assigned. Close your eyes and say them slowly. No other format. Let each word shine. No extra thoughts added.
- Close the day as you began, with the same theme and the two ideas, before you sleep.
Longer sitting
Morning preparation — five minutes with the central theme is enough to set the day. Close the day the same way
- Open the mind. Clear it of thoughts that would deceive.
- Say, slowly: “My mind holds only what I think with God.”
- Then merely read the two ideas. Close your eyes and say them slowly. No other format. Let each word shine. No extra thoughts added.
- Say, slowly: “If I defend myself I am attacked.”
- Say, slowly: “Sickness is a defense against the truth.”
- Evening: repeat the opening theme and the two ideas before you sleep.
Short / hourly
Each hour — a quiet moment
- Say, slowly: “My mind holds only what I think with God.”
- Then unhurriedly: “If I defend myself I am attacked.”. “Sickness is a defense against the truth.”.
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 135–136” 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