THE GIFTS OF GOD —Sondra Ray and Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

There is a Self God Created. We are that Self. But it is covered over by the "ego self" we have been conditioned to believe is us. This Lesson is designed to release us from the self we made up, and to accept the Self God created us to be. Are we willing to do this? Inherent in this decision of acceptance is also the realization of our own immortality. There is no death. This is a theme...

This is the fifth review in the workbook. GOD is but Love and therefore so am I. Love is our true Self. Fear is a symptom of the imagined separation of our ego. Will we identify with the Christ and be His eyes, His hands, His voice, and thus communicate Love to our brothers and sisters? We give the miracles of Love and overcome fear. Fear is a stranger in the Self of our Love. These Podcasts are a...

"God is but love, and therefore so am I." This is the statement which brackets the two "Thoughts of the Day " that we review for the next ten days in this FIFTH REVIEW of Lessons #151 through #170. This review asks us to be more attentive to the Conversation we have with our Creator. Do we have the space to listen? It is interesting how we distract ourselves into a lot of meani...

The ego has everything upside down. The ego thinks that attack is justified and "love" is our enemy. Fear is accepted as real, and our defenses are necessary to keep us safe. Love does not justify the defenses we make. Love is safe, and we never need to attack. The idol that we call "love" is merely fear and attack that is never justified. When we see the illusion of this justi...

The Grace accessible to us now is concerned with the work of inner correction, with miracles, with the acceptance and the dissemination of FORGIVENESS. We are dedicated to Forgiveness as the means to clear our minds and prepare the table of our "inner altar" to receive God's final step of Grace. The Grace is already with us, and it has accompanied us our whole life, even when we were...

The Grace of God is always here, but we have made ourselves "absent" through our attack thoughts, fears, guilts, insecurities, grievances, and negative emotions. These break our communication with our Creator. But we can restore this communication channel through complete forgiveness. Forgiveness is a simple admission of our mistake, and an invocation to our Creator to "transmute&qu...

DO we deny HEAVEN? It seems like Heaven evades us. Why? If Heaven is here NOW, and it has already been given to us by our Creator, then it is by our own choice and "denial" of it that we do not experience Heaven. This is the theme of this Lesson #165 today. Our acceptance of the Heaven already given to us is all that is required on our part. We do not first need to have "an experien...

Do we connect with our Source on a daily basis? We have a function to know who we are as God created us. "Now are we ONE with Him who is our Source." The Christ will receive this connection to God for us, being in constant Communion with His Father, therefore, we listen to the Christ to make this contact with our Source. We are now as God Created us. We can be aware of this today, and al...

What is the most firm belief that we do not bring to question? "Death is inevitable." This thought forms the conerstone of our "temple built to death." It is the basis for all sorrow in the world. It brings about pain, sickness, old age, and the eventual demise of the body. It is the ego's main premise, and from this thought all fear springs. This is the thought that the Ch...

Our Home is Love, and in this Home there is no fear. Fear is a Stranger to Love. Why would we not abide in the truth of the Love that we are? Why would we not give up our justifications for anger, fear, and insecurity? Fear is a "stranger" to Love which is our Home. Love is a stranger to fear. The two are mutually exclusive. Yet, Love does not "battle" with fear. It sees it as...

Have we received Christ's Vision of our innocence? Do we maintain our Life free of problems? Or... are we giving reality to our imposed limitations? No One can give what he has not received, but what bloks us from receiving God's Infinite Love and Supply? We can be receiving and giving simultaneously. The more Peace we receive the more we give it away. The more Healing we receive the more...

What is it that we have to give? Can we receive Christ's Vision in order to give it? What would that be? Can we see that we are as God created us, and that our Innocence is totally intact, no matter what mistakes we have made in our life? This would be Christ's Vision. The Knowledge of our Real Self as God Created us is far beyond what can be taught, but awareness of this Self is Christ&#3...

What would it mean to "Enter into Christ's Presence?" Can we accept the fact that Christ's Presence is a very real frequency of awareness that we can receive? Would we want this Presence in our energy field? Can we receive this Presence? This is a serious invocation for total transformation in our life. It is not a small thing to enter into the Energy Field of the Christ. The awa...

Who walks with you? Do you walk with your Source? Are you aware that the Christ is your Guide? As students of ACIM we are asked to make contact with the Christ Consciousness within ourselves. Are we doing that? This Lesson, "I walk with God in perfect holiness." is a statement of a fact. Can we receive this Truth and make a difference? This Lesson is our Answer.

Do we accept that we are among the "ministers of God" as students of A Course in Miracles? And then, as "ministers of God," Who is leading us? The ministers of God deliver messages they did not write, to people whom they did not pick out. Yet, the first recipent of their message is themselves. The messenger must first receive the message for himself before he can give it away....

What keeps us truly safe? Defenses attract attack. We make defenses because we feel threatened. Why? Are these threats real to our true Self? If "I AM SPIRIT" is our truth, and Spirit is that which cannot ever be destroyed, what is it that needs defense? It is illusion that can be "threatened." Therefore, it is illusion that demands defenses. The Real cannot be threatened, ther...

We have the Power to decide for Heaven or for Hell. But we must also see that the Hell we may choose is only a projection of our own misperceptions. We make a "hell" that is not really there. We give it shape and form, then site the demostration of our experiences as proof that "hell" is real. War is "hell" for sure. But the thoughts that produce war are illusions we...

What is the "Voice for God" saying to us? Did we ever hear it? This Lesson says all things that we hear are echoes for the "Voice for God." Are we even hearing the echoes? Do we "hear” that, or are we listening to that, or to what the body's ears are telling us? This Lesson is about hearing the Voice for God speaking to us of the Christ that we are. The past is over, a...

"My mind holds only what I think with God." This is a statement that reveals the truth. We think with God’s Thoughts, and all else are dreams. The meditation prepares us to receive the Lessons 121-140. Forgiveness is the means by which we can commune with the Christ in the two thoughts of the day. But the key is that we clear our minds to be free of any thoughts that are not Thoughts of...

The "cure" of our Self is not a remedy for bodily ills. The cure is a correction within the mind, in which our mind is now in communion with the Mind of God. Love's awareness is restored to our mind, and all limitations are overcome. We are "cured" because we are "saved" from the illusions of the ego, the conflicted self we made up. We have returned to Peace. Conf...

"What am I?" is the question the ego asks. We have lost the certainty of our Identity by accepting the "ego" as our Self. The "ego" is a false self that pretends to doubt itself. Only the ego does not "know" itself, therefore it asks the question, "What am I?" The Atonement is the Forgiveness of all our "wrong thinking." It is the end of...

What are we waiting for? Heaven is held out to us NOW, and by a decision we make in our holy mind, we can be fully immersed in it. Do we not trust this is true? Are we still attached to thinking the "hell" we made up is equally real? There is a lot of "evidence" out there we use to "prove" our self-projected hell is real. From the level of the body, this is almost imp...

The TRUTH is that God's Peace and Joy are mine. When we defend "against this truth" we can identify with the body's pain and suffering and make up a "sickness." "Sickness" does not just "happen to us" without our "thoughts" that brought on these conditions. Sickness is a "defense" against the truth of God's Peace and Joy. When...

What are the "plans" we make? What is the end to which these plans are applied? Are these goals of our plans designed to allay our fear of the future? And why do we fear the future? Mostly our plans are to "guard against death" (which we fear) of our life "as a body." The world is based on defense, and our plans are defenses against the "threat of death." Wh...

This Lesson sorts out our understanding of true forgiveness. It clarifies that forgiveness is applied to what is untrue and false. It does not "forgive the true." Peace and Joy are not the problems. The self-projected errors in perception that produce suffering are what we need to forgive. And we are 100% responsibile for these errors in ourselves. This is what we apply forgiveness to. O...