Lesson 365

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

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Lesson Practice

Today's lesson — "This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace." — invites you into a deeper experience of the Course's central teaching. As with every lesson in the workbook, the emphasis is on application rather than intellectual understanding. Let the idea for today accompany you throughout your day.

Begin your practice periods by repeating the idea slowly to yourself. Then close your eyes and let your mind be still for a moment. Don't try to force any particular experience — simply hold the idea gently in your awareness and notice what arises.

Throughout the day, return to today's idea whenever you remember. Each time you apply it — especially in moments of stress, conflict, or uncertainty — you strengthen your connection to the peace that lies beneath all surface appearances.

Key Themes

• God: This lesson touches on the Course's teaching about God, inviting you to explore what this means in your direct experience.
• Trust: This lesson touches on the Course's teaching about trust, inviting you to explore what this means in your direct experience.
• Peace: This lesson touches on the Course's teaching about peace, inviting you to explore what this means in your direct experience.
• Eternity: This lesson touches on the Course's teaching about eternity, inviting you to explore what this means in your direct experience.

Practice Notes

• Repeat the idea for today slowly and with intention at the start of each practice period
• Close your eyes and sit quietly for a moment after repeating the idea
• Apply the idea specifically to situations and people throughout your day
• Don't judge yourself if you forget — simply return to the idea when you remember
• Let the practice be gentle and without pressure

Contemplation

Sit with today's idea for a few quiet moments. There is no need to analyze or understand it intellectually. The workbook's approach is experiential — understanding comes through practice, not through thinking about practice.

What would your day look like if you truly held this idea in mind? How might your responses to people and situations shift? Let these questions rest lightly in your awareness without demanding answers.

From Walking the Workbook

Beloved, the last lesson of the Workbook.

You have done three hundred and sixty-five days. The year is complete. The mind that finishes this lesson is not the mind that began Lesson 1.

The Workbook will not, after today, give you another lesson. The practice continues in your life — not as a daily exercise in a book, but as the way of being the year has been clarifying. The willingness, the recognition, the small forgiveness, the holy instant — these are now yours, not as discrete exercises, but as the texture of how you move through the day.

If you would like to begin the Workbook again — many students do, often more than once across a lifetime — you can return to Lesson 1 tomorrow. The Workbook is patient. It will meet you wherever you are.

If you would like to step away from formal practice, you can. What you have received does not require continued reading to remain. The mind that has been changed has been changed.

We have loved walking this with you. The willingness you have brought to every day has been doing what it has been doing, whether or not you noticed. The work is complete.

The Course is not.

For today, and onward. Repeat the prayer one final time in the formal practice of the year. This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace. Then sit, longer than usual. Let the year close in stillness.

Beloved, thank you for walking this year.

— The ACIM.live Editors

A musical companion to today's lesson is available below.

Walking the Workbook, Volume Three is the ACIM.live companion for Lessons 241 through 365 — the final third of the year, including the deeper movement into Part II and the closing of the year. Read more about the book →

*This is original commentary and practice guidance, not the Course text itself. For the complete lesson, please visit The Foundation for Inner Peace.*