Workbook · Part I · Review
Lesson 176
Review of lessons 161–162
What this lesson is saying
Today is a review, not a new idea. The workbook asks you to take earlier lessons — 161 (“Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”); 162 (“I am as God created me.”) — 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 greet someone you think you love, and still rank them — late, messy, not trying.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 161–162.” There will be no one left out, including the ones you like. Drop the ranking. Speak as you normally would. You do not have to pretend they are easy.
Toward yourself
A political enemy, a public figure, a ‘them’ you have never met and already hate.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 161–162.” No exceptions. You do not have to vote for them. You do have to drop the wish to hurt. The mind is the same mind.
At work, at home, or in a situation
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 161–162.” Make the one plan that is actually due. Come back. This hour has a next step. Take it. Leave the later hour.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
Love has exceptions. I can hold them and the case. The ranking is how I keep them honest. Reciting the titles is enough. This situation can wait.
Jesus’s way
“Review of lessons 161–162.” 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 #380
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 176
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 161–162.”
- The ideas under today: 161, 162. Which did you actually use on a person? The ones you only admired are the curriculum.
How to sit today
Review V · Lessons 151–170
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
“God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
- How often
- Start and end the day with the refrain. Surround every practice period with it. Use it as you fall asleep and as you wake
- How long
- The review does not set a clock. Give real time and effort — more than in earlier reviews. Let the words give way to the experience they point to
- Through the day
- Hold the refrain in mind throughout the day, and use the two reviewed thoughts to keep it clear.
How
- With the refrain we start each day. Then Lesson 161, held in that refrain; then Lesson 162, held in that refrain. End each sitting the same way.
- Words are aids. Except at the beginning and end of a sitting, use them only to recall the mind to its purpose. Wait for the experience. Conviction is there, not in the sound of the sentence.
Longer sitting
Start and end the day with the refrain. Give real time — more than in earlier reviews. No clock is set
- Say, slowly: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
- Then Lesson 161: “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”, held in that refrain.
- Say, slowly: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
- Then Lesson 162: “I am as God created me.”, held in that refrain.
- Say, slowly: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
- Words are aids. Except at the beginning and end of a sitting, use them only to recall the mind to its purpose. Wait for the experience.
Short / hourly
Surround every practice period with the refrain. Use it as you fall asleep and as you wake
- Say, slowly: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
- Hold “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.” or “I am as God created me.” to keep the refrain clear.
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 161–162” 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