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

A Holy Relationship is perfectly understandable to our true vision of our own holiness. Free of fear and doubt, anger and separation, the Holy Relationship is focused on healing, and brings love and understanding to our vision. Yet, if we slip into judging another who "offends" us, and do not see his misdemeanors as a "call for help," we are not aligned with our Creator's W...

Salvation and the Holy Relationship is the new Chapter 22 we start today. The Introduction points out how much we have enslaved ourselves to the belief in "sin." We feel limited and guilty within ourselves, but project it onto others through blame and condemnation to try to "get rid of it." All the thoughts of the ego are the same. Though "sin" is the same mistake in...

Have you ever asked for "constant joy?" This would be a state of happiness that never diminishes. It never reverts to sorrow. If God grants us all our desires, even our desire to conform the the ego's thought system that is based on inconstancy. We settle for crumbs. Little bits of happiness wedged between the blocks of sorrow and disappointment used to build our world of unexpected...

Powerlessness and littleness are the defenses that the ego uses to deny your Identity. We are either for the Son of God, or against him. We maintain helplessness to deny our God Created Self. By staying stuck in our separated ego self, not looking beyond it, we do not see. But we can turn it around and give up all enemies. I do want to see what I denied because it is the truth. The truth is that G...

Reason will always see that there is no "sin." Reason will see our errors and give us the means for correcting them. There is no guilt in correction. But the active choice to keep our errors would maintain our "guilt" that makes us feel "damned." Reason wants our correction to offer us the means for liberation from madness. Madness wants our disorders to continue. We...

What is the function of reason? Reason is a way of determining if our perception is aligned with the Holy Spirit or with the ego. Thought precedes perception, so reason also examines the mind that determines the perception. What is in this mind? And who do we think we are? Our "self view" plays a role in what we witness in the world. Awareness of Reality would show us the possibilities o...

What the ego would like us to believe is that "sin" is real. It has faith in "sin.” Sin is accompanied with guilt, and guilt demands punishment, therefore the ego fears this punishment. But the real fear is that we would look within and find there is no sin. This is the ego's real and paramount fear. Embracing our spiritual truth we would look within and see who we are as God cr...

To what do we apply our Faith, Belief, and Vision? We can apply them to the body, to sin, to the guilt that the belief in sin fosters. But this is the ego's use of very powerful forces to make illusions seem "real." It is time to change our mind in the use of these forces. Changing the purpose from "sin" to one of holiness invokes the Holy Spirit to move mountains that lift...

What we experience is what we see, and everything we experience we asked for it. Even the most traumatic and painful events in our life, we somehow "asked for them" with the underlying subconscious thoughts that attracted them. Here is the prayer that will liberate us by taking full responsibility for our own thoughts and requests. I  am  responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings...

Do we want Vision or do we want judgments? How we perceive the external world is solely based on this decision. The beliefs we hold are in error, and they are projected onto the world, giving us a problematic life. These beliefs are judgments. On the other hand, vision would show us a different mind, and therefore a different world. One free of judgments. A heaven on earth. And this heaven abides...

Vision is ours, instead of judgment. We desired to be separated, and in that decision entered "guilt" and "sin." They were illusions, but we made up and ego self that thought them real. We cut off from our Creator, and lost the vision of our original innocence. Yet, we can restore our vision by looking upon our brother's sinlessness. Christ rises in our vision, and shows us...

The "means" for Salvation, or full enlightenment, is the Atonement, which is complete forgiveness. We may like to have the boon of this Liberation without giving up our attachment to "sin," which is our attachment to "guilt." Therefore we reject the means of forgiveness. The “end,” or “purpose,” is our holiness. We want full awareness of this holiness, but our belief...

The Temple of the Holy Spirit is not a body, but a Relationship. An the most KEY Relationship is the Holy one we have with our Creator. This is the most important union necessary, because in this union is the Holy Union we form with everyone else. Our Holy Relationship looks beyond the demonstrations of the body, at the heart of Love which Created us. Our God Created Self is a Thought in the Mind...

The Holy Relationship, fully realized, gives us the Heralds of Eternity. Both persons become the closest to their own real Self. Joining with the Christ in our Relationship is a timeless action. Each Herald of Eternity is the end of sin and fear, and the peace and joy that is welcome comes to the forefront. Far beyond the value of our judgment, the Holy Relationship is the means by which the truth...

What would entering the Ark of the Covenant look like? What would be required of us to take those remarkable few steps into Heaven? First, we must believe it is possible, and that we can listen to the Voice for God in the Holy Spirit to guide us and lead us there. Then we have to completely forgive ourselves and our brother, yes our brother, for everything we "thought occurred, but did not.&q...

This Lesson #169 is a further clarification of GRACE. It is our loftiest aspiration to live by GRACE. Why not? What blocks it? Do we still hold grievances? Are we still judging, hanging onto fear, guilt, anger? These are all the blocks to the awareness of our Oneness with God. Our mind determines when we allow Grace to enter. We have free will to block it. We have free will to cause ourselves to s...

GRACE is a Gift of God to His Son / Daughter. It is natural. It is whole. It is the "problem free state of being." "Your Grace is given me. I claim it now," is Lesson #168. God gives the Grace, but we seldom claim it. We may think we do not deserve it. We may think we have to prepare ourself to receive it. We may think it's not "really there." We may think it has...

Why do we ask a false self we made up for answers to anything? What is "not true" would only offer us "untruths" as answers. Any concept of the self as "sinful" would have to be a gross adjustment from the Reality of Who we are as God Created us. We are trying to "render imperfect" Who God Created perfect. We deny our perfection, and then seek guidance from...

The Gift of Lillies instead of the condemnation of thorns is our choice to give our brother. Will we hold his errors against him? Or will we offer him the absolution of forgiveness, for thus it will be given to us as well? We are standing before the gates of Heaven with this choicebefore us. Will we enter the gates in this lifetime? Or would we rather keep our grievances toward ourselves and other...

This new Chapter 20 is THE VISION OF HOLINESS. Can we enter into a new phase of our acceptance of miracles in our life? This begins the Holy Week of receiving the boon of the Resurrection. Who is it accomplished? There is our "brother" behind the veil of our grievances, our fear, anger, resentment, who is also the Christ. Can we see his true Self? This would be the result of total forgiv...

In this last part of the Obstacles to Peace, the “Fear of God" is surmounted by our total forgiveness of our brother. This also includes ourself. But we cannot have the liberation from our secret "grievances" toward ourselves without relinquishing the grievances we hold toward another. The resurrection is invited by this letting go of all judgments and attack thoughts. There are non...

The fear of God is strongly linked to our identification with the body, and our desire to get out of the body. We say we want "life," but we are attracted to the "release" of death. We do not see how insane this is. What we think of as our "fear of death" is actually our attraction to it. We are obsessed with our own suffering which we bring upon ourselves. The Resurr...

TGOG 2024; 7-21; TEXT 19; SEC IV; THE OBSTACLES TO PEACE #6 We look today at the "unconscious death urge." This is another term we use to describe the Third Obstacle to Peace, "The Attraction of Death." We dedicate this Podcast to eternal Life. This is governing our Minds, now. No one can "die" unless he chooses "death." "What seems to be the "fear...

Why are we actually "attracted to pain?" We "think" that our Self-Identity is so wired together with the body, we forget that we are Spirit. This Spirit is always in a state of grace, always in a state pf Peace and Joy, always ONE with its SOURCE. The second we forget this and "think" we actually are a body, separated from it's Source, we invite in the duality of...

The Obstacles to Peace need to be overcome. This is the second obstacle, The belief that the body is valuable for what it offers. We are attached to the body, and we "identify" with it, and make the mistake of associating the body with our Self. We see death as the final "freedom" in this thought system of suffering, and we equate Atonement with "murder." Love is asso...