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

What is the TEST OF TRUTH? are we in a state of undisturbed peace? Can we have and maintain our "inner calm?" The Holy Spirit would lead us to this truth of peace, but we have to be willing to be guided by It's Light of a different kind of reason. There is a place in us of Perfect Peace, but we must want that above all else. It is easy to think that we can make this "utopia&quot...

I WANT THE PEACE OF GOD is Lesson #185 in the Workbook. Are we committed wholeheartedly to bringing this statement into application on ourselves? To say these words is meaningless. To mean them as our Truth is everything. We are not dreaming when the Truth dawns in our minds with sincerity of the highest order. I WANT THE PEACE OF GOD is not a dream. Do we really want this state of being? We rise...

"I PLACE THE FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF GOD." This is Lesson #194. Would we have concerns of the future if we truly applied this Lesson? Do we even trust there is a God Who cares for us, and paves the way for our future to be one of Heavenly proportions? What would it take for us to believe these words are true for us? In times of "uncertainty," we need this Lesson even more. What...

The reflection of Heaven has certain conditions. Peace would be a condition. Freedom from guilt would be there. There would not be attack thoughts in this reflection. The miracles come from this "different world" of unlimited Love, free of all guilt, fear or anger. There is no "order of difficulty" in the Holy Spirit's ability to bestow His blessings upon us. But our world...

We already are HOLY. This is our Truth. Atonement is a "reparative process" that removes the illusions of our past "mistakes" that make us miserable. We keep a "record of wrongdoing" in ourselves and others that prevent us from seeing the reflection of our Holiness that is our only Reality. Healing is the only concern of the Holy Spirit, and healing is what we need in...

We have a HOLY MEETING PLACE with the Holy Spirit at the Altar of the Father with His Son. The gifts on this "Holy Meeting Place" have the Innocence and Glory of the unseparated Father and the Son. Love flows constantly here. The Holy Altar to our true Relationship with God abides. Let us not put on our Altars what does not belong there. "Fear guilt or anger" are illusions that...

TRUTH is UNION. In UNION opposites cannot coexist. War and Peace are but projections of the ego as opposites. When brought to the TRUTH, war has no justification, and only peace has a Divine Cause. Fear is the source of the ego that wants to keep "opposites" alive. The ego justifies fear, and conflict and war are then perpetuated. The opposites have not be "brought together." O...

It is the LIGHT which shines away the darkness. What is held secret and obscure in our minds, based on shame and fear and guilt, can be shined away by the Light of True Forgiveness. The Light of Love is Forgiveness in this dimension. The sentinels of guilt keep our shame secret. We carry the past mistakes as "records of wrongdoing." But it is time for us to LET GO of these shadows that h...

Can we enter into the Circle of Atonement in the quiet of God's eternal Love for us? The message is always the same: God's Son is only guiltless. There is no guilt in the true Mind of God that is ours to use. We were created in this Mind of God, and only Innocence and Joy abide in the holiness of this Mind, of which ours is a part. Who could condemn with guilt Whom God has blessed in His p...

We are already absolved of any mistakes we made. But we do have to practice forgiving others, especially if we are prone to holding onto grievances. Love holds no grievances, and mistakes anyone made do not affect at all the Love God has for them. So who are we to withhold our Love to them, based on our grievances. Keeping "records of wrongdoing" puts us in a quagmire of the past, and pr...

Only the Guiltless are Free. And only Guiltlessness is our reality. Guilt is an illusion. But this fact does not stop us from projecting guilt onto us and others. We believe the false is "true," and attack based on this "guilt" is justified. We decide each second between "guilt" or "guiltlessness." Our INNOCENCE is our REALITY. How would we step into this Aw...

There is a simplicity of Truth. What we pursue to bring us "happiness" too often brings us disappointment or even despair. "Pursuit of happiness" is our divine right, yet these pursuits can lead to "nothing." We make palaces, golden crowns, and royal robes out of nothing. We are fooled by appearances. These appearances too often disintegrate into dust, leaving us with...

Can we really learn anything from the ego when the final result of the ego's thought system is conflict, sickness, and death? These results are "nothing" according to the Holy Spirit. Truth will correct all errors in our Minds when we ask Him to liberate us from our mistakes. We have one decision to make: to turn our minds over the the Holy Spirit for His directions. The logic of the...

HEAVEN is real. It is free of all guilt and conflict. War is unreal. Guilt is unreal. There is no conflict in the Will of God. When we use the Holy Spirit's corrective energy on our behalf, we restore our will with God's Will, and therefore dissolve all forms of conflict. PEACE is WHOLE and unambiguous, or not at all. There is no variation or contrast in PEACE. This we would call HEAVEN. W...

RELEASE FROM guilt is seeing your true SELF is only pure innocence. Mistakes are inconsequential to this true SELF.

Why do we hang onto the "guilt" we maintain from past mistakes. We have a saying--"Keep no records of wrongdoing." The Atonement stands brightly and clearly in this Holy Instant in the present. God created us Innocent, regardless of our past mistakes. We need not hang onto the "guilt" of wrongdoing from the past. The past is over. And the Self God created did not make...

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge 1 All healing is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only Healer. He teaches that the past does not exist, a fact which belongs to the sphere of knowledge, and which therefore no one in the world can know. It would indeed be impossible to be in the world with this knowledge. For the mind that knows this unequivocally knows also it dwells in...

THE REAL WORLD IS OURS. But we have to want it above all else, and be willing to let go of the world we "made up." Would we commit ourselves to see through Christ's Vision? This is given to us when we want it, but we have to welcome it in. Love does not wait on time, but on our welcome to enter into our world of reality. This world is given, not made. This is the world free of pain,...

Can we totally bring our awareness into the Present? Can we let go of all the images we have held on to from our past? The only real time is the Present, and the Light of our true Self is here. "No cloud of guilt" is held onto in our clinging to the past. We let the past go. Christ's Vision is only in the Present. With no past and no future, we are aware of this Holy Instant now. We...

LOVE or FEAR. One is of God and one is of the ego. Which will we choose? The ego's "version" of "love" is racked with fear. In fact, the ego is the fear that made it. It rejects the wholeness of real LOVE, and picks its allies carefully to maintain its specialness and separation. Christ's Vision is necessary to cast out the fear that has become so much a part of our mod...

This Section, The Function of Time, we see the two uses of time: The ego's version is to bring the past into the present, all it's regrets and mistakes and guilt, and project those into the future, which turns it into a "hell" of repetitive errors that makes it destroy itself eventually. The Holy Spirit sees only the present, and the past is over and forgiven; the future would be...

It is not pain and suffering we are afraid of; it is the Love that would heal them that instills a deep fear in us. We have grown accustomed to problems. We have gotten used to attack and counter attack. What would allow us to accept our Love for God and God's Love for us? It is our deepest desire that we keep hidden under the ego's shroud of suffering and death. We include our brothers an...

The Gift of Lillies on this Day of Easter is the recognition that there is no death, and our immortality is guaranteed. Those of us who leave our bodies behind are blessed today, and can enter into the Light of God, and of the Self, God's Son, to meet our true Identity. We give the body this blessing as well, that it served us well as a communication tool we used for awhile to join in Love wit...

Guilt is something we feel and then project onto others. The ego's thought system is based on guilt, and retaining guilt. Projection of guilt does not "get rid" of it. The ego believes if you dare to think you are "guiltless," then you are really "guilty." To declare our absolute innocence is "blasphemous to God," according to the ego. The guiltless indu...

This whole Chapter 13 is called "THE GUILTLESS WORLD." This Chapter is to help us to see things differently, and be freed from the delusion of "guilt." The guilt projected onto ourselves and others makes up "laws of suffering, separation and death." This is a loveless world of the ego. We cannot have a feeling of a Benevolent and Merciful GOD in this picture of the eg...