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

What do we perceive? —A world of changing forms of opposing factions and thoughts, and even feelings within ourselves? The Face of Christ presents no changing forms. Its content is one, and that is the Peace, Joy, and Innocence of a Forgiven World. It is a Happy Dream in a world of sorrow. It is an orderly perception in a conglomerate of chaos. Forgiveness is the means of having a vision of Christ...

We overlook the limitations of the ego's thought system, and go for the clarification of the miracles. Trust will correct all errors in our mind when we are willing to let go of our "thinking we know." The invocation of the Atonement, the forgiveness of all our errors, wipes away our memories of misperceptions that kept us in Hell. We enter into the Heaven of the Peace of God. We go...

TGOG: COT; #1 MIND—SPIRIT. We are given clarification of the MIND of GOD which is in constant contact with Spiritual Truth. This is the realm of Pure Love, Joy, Happiness, Wellness; and True Being. What could be turned away from that awareness is also the mind, but one in need of inner correction and guidance. We are always given the opportunity to transcend all limitations, rise above the physica...

29. AS FOR THE REST... We can give over our problems to the TEACHER Who is always right. We refer decisions now over to the Holy Spirit. We are absolved of all guilt now. And we can be free of fear and anger as well, and allow the memory of Love to return to us.

28. WHAT IS THE RESURRECTION? "Very simply, the resurrection is the overcoming or surmounting of death. It is a re-awakening or a rebirth; a change of mind about the meaning of the world. It is the acceptance of the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the world's purpose; the acceptance of the Atonement for oneself. It is the end of dreams of misery, and the glad awareness of the Holy Spi...

27. WHAT IS DEATH? Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. Is it not madness to think of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end? We have asked this question before, but now we need to consider it more carefully. It is the one fixed, unchangeable belief of the world that all things in it are born only to die. This is regarded as "the way of nature,&q...

CAN GOD BE REACHED DIRECTLY? We have a Divine Connection that is in us, but we can block our contact with it if we maintain doubt, fear, anger, guilt, and general unwillingness. We have to forgive all of this. Responsibility is in seeing we are never a victim of anything, and we have attracted all negative experiences. We can forgive ourselves and return to GRACE. In this open mind we can cross th...

ARE PSYCHIC POWERS DESIRABLE? Awakening into our God Consciousness is the main goal ACIM puts forth. Can we do this in using all of the powers given to us in the Mind? There is nothing special about it, but it may expand the powers of the Mind activated through our study of A Course in Miracles.

24. IS REINCARNATION SO? The concept of "Past Lives," so prominent in the belief in reincarnation, is not necessary to make the decision for Heaven now. In fact, it can distract us from that decision, especially if we are enmeshed in the beliefs that prevented us for making this decision in the past. Whatever we are suffering now we have always suffered until we decide to end our self-in...

23. DOES JESUS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN HEALING? A spiritual Master is essential to our own process of inner evolution. We "awaken" through the grace of these "Teachers of God." They help us to "undo" lower order concerns and rise to the height of our True Self in God. Without them, we would waste time and flounder around in life's "problems." Jesus, in t...

22. HOW ARE HEALING AND ATONEMENT RELATED? "Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement." The responsibility to "accept the Atonement" for ourselves remains. Can we. It is a total action. Without it, how can there be real healing? The decision is ours. Sickness....or Healing. Co...

21. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF WORDS IN HEALING? The Energy of our pure intent, with our certainty of Divine Connection, lends great power to our healing process. We have to know in our bones that God's Will for us is perfect happiness, which would include total healing. We can LET GO. We can be in a new vibration of the Heaven State, pain-free, conflict-free, disease-free, and yes, even "death-...

20. WHAT IS THE PEACE OF GOD? It certainly is not "death." Death is no escape if you hate your life and want to "get out of here" and get "back to God." God is here too, in this physical dimension, so if you are not at peace now, you may not be in peace just because you drop your body. The "stillness of the Peace of God" is here now. We have to drop what we...

19. WHAT IS JUSTICE? We are asked to bring our thoughts of "injustice" to the true "justice," the action of real forgiveness, to dissolve all our denials of Heaven in this dimension. Miracles are the actions of Justice. Justice corrects the errors in our mind that have judged the world wrongly—which have manifested sorrow and pain. The Holy Spirit corrects these errors in our t...

18. HOW IS CORRECTION MADE? This is a question we all must answer for ourselves. The sole responsibility of the Teacher of God is the acceptance of the Atonement for himself / herself. And the Atonement is the correction of all our "wrong thinking." Correction is made without any guilt. Without anger. Without making the "error" real. We see the error as an illusion that we can...

17. HOW DO GOD'S TEACHERS DEAL WITH MAGIC THOUGHTS? Magic Thoughts are those which we think separated from our Source Awareness. They have a tinge of fear, guilt and anger embedded in them. Are we defending ourselves from a perceived attack? These would be magic thoughts. Can we let them go? We have to be the ones who step out of the imagined separation from our Source, and be in contact with...

16. HOW SHOULD THE TEACHER OF GOD SPEND HIS DAY? There is no set rule for how a Teacher of God will spend his day. But we are asked to treat every day as an opportunity to be Divinely guided, and apply this litmus test—is my day giving me PURE JOY? If it is not, then we must admit were were wrong, and we have made decisions by ourselves without a Divine Connection. Then we must "reboot"...

15. IS EACH ONE TO BE JUDGED IN THE END? "Indeed, yes! No one can escape God's Final Judgment. Who could flee forever from the truth?" What is the "truth," you may ask? Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

14. HOW WILL THE WORLD END? The "world" is our interpretation of all the physical stuff in the cosmos. The forgiveness of all this "stuff" means that we have no judgment, not grievances, no attack thoughts of condemnation upon any of it. We have forgiveen everyone and everything. We have PURE JOY permeating our being. And this is the TRUTH of our existence as God Created us to...

WHAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE? Giving up what is not real can hardly be a sacrifice. Giving up the non-joyous for the joyous is the only "sacrifice" we need to make. Above all else we want to see Heaven instead of Hell. We made the Hell and we can let it go. This is not a "sacrifice" but a compassionate act of aligning with the Truth, not with the "illusions."

HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? The answer is ONE. And we, who are committed to rising into this role in life, become part of that ONE when we accept the Atonement for ourselves. We rise above the body when it comes to seeing our true Identity in total Innocence in the Mind of God. Then we use our body to communicate this Innocence to others.

HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? The PEACE of GOD is always here. We are absent from it most of the time. It is up to us to give "peace a chance." This is the Peace of God that surpasses our understanding. This means we have to step outside of our normal channels of thought. The nature of thought is assessment and judgment, therefore it is always in a form of conflict. Do we value Pe...

HOW IS JUDGMENT RELINQUISHED? We cannot judge because we never know all of the factors in any given situation. Judgment blocks the insight of Infinite Intelligence coming into our minds. We relinquish judgments by seeing their limitations and choosing out of this mode of "seeing."

ARE CHANGES REQUIRED IN THE LIFE SITUATION OF GOD'S TEACHERS?

8. HOW CAN PERCEPTION OF ORDER OF DIFFICULTIES BE AVOIDED? There is only one solution for all illness: Healing. And this begins in the mind. God's will for us is Perfect Happiness, free of all illness. There is only one solution for all illusions: Truth. The truth is we are Holy Sons of God and deserve to be perfectly healthy all of the time.