Workbook · Part I · Review
Lesson 87
Review of lessons 73–74
What this lesson is saying
Today is a review, not a new idea. The workbook asks you to take earlier lessons — 73 (“I will there be light.”); 74 (“There is no will but God's.”) — 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
A thought says someone else is the problem — and it feels like a report from reality.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 73–74.” The thought is not a report from God. Let it pass. If something useful must be said, say only that.
Toward yourself
A photo, a birthday, a glance at a hand — aging as doom.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Review of lessons 73–74.” Care for the body. Do not make the photo into God, and do not punish it. Identity is not the glass.
At work, at home, or in a situation
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 73–74.” 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.
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 are the problem. The thought is a fact. I have to follow it into a remark or a story. Reciting the titles is enough. This situation can wait.
Jesus’s way
“Review of lessons 73–74.” 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 #285
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 87
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 73–74.”
- The ideas under today: 73, 74. Which did you actually use on a person? The ones you only admired are the curriculum.
How to sit today
Review II · Lessons 61–80
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 today — Lesson 73 in the earlier part of the day, Lesson 74 in the latter part. One longer sitting for each, plus frequent shorter ones
- How long
- About 15 minutes for each longer sitting
- Through the day
- Shorter applications: use the original form of the idea generally, and a more specific form when needed. Suggested specifics are in the comments; the particular words do not matter.
- Eyes
- Open for the reading, closed for the listening
- If you forget
- Do not let distracting thoughts convince you the sitting failed. They have no meaning and no power. Replace them with determination to succeed.
How
- Longer sitting: take about 15 minutes. Spend three or four minutes reading the idea and comments slowly, several times if you wish. Then close your eyes and listen.
- If the mind wanders, repeat the reading phase. Spend the major part of the sitting listening quietly but attentively. There is a message waiting, and it belongs to you.
- Treat the sitting as a dedication. Do not leave your function unfulfilled today.
Longer sitting
Two longer sittings — about 15 minutes each. Lesson 73 in the earlier part of the day, Lesson 74 in the latter part
- First sitting: Lesson 73 — “I will there be light.”.
- Spend three or four minutes reading the idea and comments slowly, several times if you wish. Then close your eyes and listen.
- If the mind wanders, repeat the reading phase. Spend the major part of the sitting listening quietly but attentively. There is a message waiting, and it belongs to you.
- Second sitting, later: the same form with Lesson 74 — “There is no will but God's.”.
- Treat each sitting as a dedication. Do not leave your function unfulfilled today.
Short / hourly
Frequent shorter applications of each idea
- Earlier part of the day: “I will there be light.” — generally, and a more specific form when needed.
- Latter part of the day: “There is no will but God's.” — generally, and a more specific form when needed.
- The particular extra words do not matter. The idea does.
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 73–74” 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
Carla's Channeling Handbook begins before any voice arrives: purity of desire, care of the instrument, harmony in the group. Today's idea is that care, applied to ordinary life.
Open stream