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

Can we remember the Love that created us? It is our Divine Connection. This is the precedent in our life. Our Divine Connection is our attraction to Absolute Love. Love created us like Itself, and this Energy that created the Universe is at our disposal. But if we would rather listen to the ego's voice, the Love that would solve our problem has become "invisible." What is "visib...

"Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized only by its results. Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations." This is the beginning...

The Vision of Christ is the help we need to make contact with our Higher Self. The value of our Self is realized by the extension of loving thoughts outward. We have something to give, and this is our own remembrance of God. The Holy Spirit reminds of this Divine Connection. The Real World is composed of only loving thoughts; everything else is a "call for help." Our job is to meet the u...

This is the beginning of sanity, in which we listen to the Teacher that can give us the SANE CURRICULUM. The ego's rule is to "seek and make sure it does not find what it seeks." In terms of a curriculum, the ego tries to "learn but make sure it does not learn what it studies." Attack makes us weak, but the attacks we do on ourselves and others really have no effects. When...

The rule of the ego is "seek but make sure it does not find what it seeks." The futile search for "love" fails to acknowledge that Love is already our true nature—there is nothing we need to seek. We already "have" what the ego "seeks." What we "seek" is already ours. Seeking and finding go together. Lesson #230 says, "Today I seek and find th...

What is the reality we invest in? Are we investing in conflict, anger, problems, and trouble? Our Investment in Reality would be totally free of inner conflict and anger. The Text later states, "Anger is never justified." JOY is always justified, and we owe our brother the Reality of Peace and Joy. If he asks something of us that "does not really matter," rather than go into &q...

We remember God by remembering our brothers and sisters. To heal ourselves we translate denial into truth. All sickness is a "lack of love" from our denial. The sick must heal themselves, but it may be us who give this healing to others. We can deny the "denial of love." Only Love exists, and our remembrance to Love everyone and everything including ourselves is the way to reme...

There are either Loving thoughts or a "call for help." How we respond to any situation, incident, or interaction accordingly would involve these. All other reactions would be giving the "unreal" a "reality" that is not there. We can remain neutral with either our response with Loving thoughts or with our response to a "call for help." How do we respond? Appr...

We are in the critical juncture of A Course in Miracles with this Section VIII of Chapter 11. "The end of the world is not its destruction, but it's translation into heaven." Our healing powers require that we see with Christ's vision. We have a challenge to see that "only loving thoughts are true." Everything else is a cry for help. We can heal in the Christ Energy. He...

We have a responsibility to see that we do not know much (in the absolute state). We have to see that what we have learned amiss is our "problem." But what we "think we know" is erroneous. Can we drop the false world of ideas that do not require us to make contact with the "Actual?" Our one "problem" is separation from the Truth, which we maintain with the t...

The main condition of reality is that it is unequivocal. It has no "opposite" in other words. And our attention is given to the Holy Spirit's thought system. The ego may see "the good," but it will always establish its "autonomy" by perceiving an opposing factor. "Evil" is equally valid to fight against. This division of "opposing factors" is o...

Can we transcend into our True Self? This would be the Self of total forgiveness and total joy. Christs Vision is an aspect of this Self. Are we slaves of the crucifixion we make up, or are we liberated in our resurrection? Christ is the resurrection and the life, and we can align with Him to have a new perception. We need a new experience that comes from Him. His perceptions are our natural aware...

The freedom of interdependence is a high state of total harmony and cooperation. The ego wants “autonomy” to maintain the separation. It is an isolated entity we have constructed to give ourself a sense of identity that takes no account of our place in the Whole. “God is dependent on the Son; the Son is dependent on Him.” But this is not a loss of freedom, but a gain, because it connects us with t...

We look at the "dynamics" of the ego today. The "autonomy" that the ego would claim for itself is in "separation." It is the interdependence of Creation, and all things in It, that brings us our Peace and Power. The ego's sense of "autonomy" is self-centered, "solipsistic," and isolated, only relating to it's circular arguments of its exist...

Our inheritance is the Sonship. We cannot exclude anyone from this awareness of the WHOLE creation of God's Son. One exclusion, even of a "Hitler," would cloud our vision, and prevent us from receiving Christ's Vision. There is no condemnation of any kind in the Mind of God. Lesson 228 says, "God has condemned me not, no more do I." We must never forget the Sonship. And...

We go from the darkness we made to the light God created. We have allowed a sense of separation to take us over. This makes us weary of the world, but it is all self-imposed. The will of God for us is the light. "Out of our joy we will create beauty in His name." What God wills for us is ours. Let us walk in the light today. The Great Light is here. It is within us. Let us claim the Ligh...

Healing involves a few things. First we have to see who we are as God created us, so we are no longer in denial of our Self-Identity. Then we have to listen to the Holy Spirit, the Guest we invite in as our Voice for God's guidance. Healing is a desire to "make whole," and this would include our brothers in the Sonship. None can be excluded, but the healing is of ourself first. The H...

The main GIFT of the Fatherhood would be receiving the infinite Will of Creation. The Universe has no beginning and no ending, and we are part of this infinite grace. The "fear" of God's Will is because we think our true will is something different than God's. Our will and God's Will are the same in our desire for perfect happiness. Peace and Joy are the only things God Wills...

There are two systems of thought. God's sacred thought system is one. The ego's separated thought system is the other. They are irreconcilable. A person cannot be in both. He is in one or the other. The question is one of our Source. Who is our "Father?" Who "Authored" us in truth? Is God our Father or the ego, standing in as our "father?" We first make up the...

We deny God by denying Life, Joy, Happiness, Health, etc. "Blasphemy" is thinking we are not as God created us. He did not create us in the pain, suffering, depression that we have fallen into. These are states of "being who we are not" and therefore "blasphemy." Wrong thinking can be corrected, but we have to be willing to change our minds, and their focus. Health is...

The End of Sickness is merely to stop trying to fix illusions. There is just one thing we need to see about "illusions." We move our attention onto the Truth, the Perfection, the real Self we share with the Christ of Perfect Happiness. The end of sickness is simply denying that the sickness is "real." There may be some procedures to do—if you break a bone you need a doctor to p...

We can be only sick in our ego. And this "false self" we made up is the "idol of sickness" we have made in our madness. It is not created by God, and by definition, Reality is ONLY what God created, therefore sickness is not real. What is not real is an illusion, only a projection of something that is not really there. And what is not really there is "nothing." But li...

We decided to forget who we are as God created us. We once knew who we are, but then we forgot by making a false "self." This self is called the ego, and it is an illusion that brought much pain and suffering to us. Yet, The "memory" of Who we are as God Created us is still in our Mind. God is in our Memory. When we are willing to remember this True Self, we are awakening to Pe...

When we are at Home in God we have decided wholly to end our imagined separation from our Source, and therefore we are happy. And because we are unified with our Creator, we know our Creations emanate from Love and are Loving. But sometimes we are unaware of this Divine Connection, and it follows that our mind is split. Partly this, and partly that. It is our Will that can end this dilemma. When w...

The "thoughts" that cause our pain and suffering are not facts. And because the "pain and suffering" from wrong mindedness appear so "real," it is difficult to see that "pain" is an illusion, because it is based on a "thought" that is an illusion. We believe our "nightmares" when we are in them. Be believe our wring thinking because we ar...