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

Sickness is but another name for sin. Healing is but another name for God. The miracle is thus a call to Him. This Lesson #356 brings of mind to the Altar of Truth. God and Healing are synonymous. Sickness and guilt go together. The Healing is the end of "guilt," in other words, our full and complete forgiveness of ourselves and others is Healing. Can we accept the Atonement for ourselve...

What is needed for us "to accept God's Word?" To be so close to accept this Word is to be stepping into Peace and Joy forever. We need more than our meager attempts to accept this Word. We need the help of the Holy Spirit for this acceptance. We need His Grace to put us into this full truth of A Course in Miracles. We have to be open to receive the Grace. "Joy Forever" is h...

Can we let in the Energy of standing one with the Christ? Can we remember the Lesson in all that we do and say? Is forgiveness our function as the Light of the world? This is our one purpose together with the Christ. Our ego is silenced in this holy acceptance. We are one with God just as the Christ is One with God. Can we accept our True Self? We have to give up our habit of thinking negative tho...

Christ is but my true Self. We dedicate our life to miracles today. Can we rise to it? It's a lofty purpose. We lose our lower self to claim our Higher Self. Can we join with the Christ in our purpose in Life? This is a great focus that ACIM has brought us to. Can we accept it? It is actually arrogant to NOT accept this purpose. Fulfilling my function as the "light of the world" is t...

How many times a day are we judging something? This prevents us from seeing through Love. It will make me blind. The Lesson associates Love with Forgiveness. Forgiveness is the means to Love in this world. Is it possible for us to lay aside judgments? Judgment and Love are opposites. We cannot have both. If we are judging, we are excluding Love. If we are Loving, we have suspended all judgment. Th...

What am I? This is the question we ask ourselves when we come to completion of the Workbook of ACIM. We are told we are the Saviors of the World along with the Christ. How will we see our brothers? How will we see ourselves? Will we focus on the "self" we made up, or the "Self" God created? We have to transcend the self we made up. We have to rise above the level of the ego sel...

What can we remember but God and the Self we really are? We can "incorporate” thisby taking in all of our brothers and sisters into this Self we remember. This is a Whole and connected system of God's Thought. We are glad to do this. God's eternal Love is God's Thought, and every human being is incorporated into the Eternal Love of our Father. This Effect of God is a miracle of in...

We are given Grace to meet all the needs we think we have. We meet these needs with the gifts of God already given us. Can we receive and give freedom from all our perceived needs? I am freed from all my problems with the reception of miracles. We must suspend our judgments. These contribute to the "problems" we think we have. When we remove our judgments from what we are looking upon, w...

We have to get in touch with the energy of Grace, not fear or anger. Can we be aware of a forcefield of grace that surrounds us? We fall into fear and anger in absence of being in touch with God surrounding us with HIs Grace. Heaven is the actual awareness of God's Energy of Grace surrounding us. This is our protection and blessing in every situation. We have to tune into this Grace so we have...

We judge and therefore attract pain, and then we get angry about this attraction. This whole dynamic keeps the miracle, the "end of pain," away from us. We use judgment and pain as forms of attack. Things unfold in ways that bring about perfection. In the atmosphere of judgment, anger is bound to surface. Things come to an end when we give up judgment. Then a Miracle can be bestowed on u...

This is the beginning of a new awareness. Are we enveloped by God's Love in our Mind? The power of attention renders this to us. Do we value God's Love above all else? This is the possible outcome of being a student of A Course in Miracles. We made a body as a distraction, and the aches and pains of physical existence would be keeping us from this full awareness. Let us forget all things e...

We receive what we give. This is a LAW. We fear miracles because they are different than our "reality of problems." We need the Action of Forgiveness to invoke the miracles to help us undo the "hell" we made up. Forgiveness is the action of the miracles that can restore us to perfect happiness. Perfect Happiness is God's Will for us, but we have projected our misperceptions...

What you give you also receive. This is the basic tenant of A Course in Miracles. Give more love and you receive more love. Give anger, hate and resentment, and you receive more of that back to yourself. This Lesson discusses the fundamental principle that the Course is putting forth. How clear we are to extend forgiveness, because when we do, we receive the absolution of all of our mistakes and l...

Giving increases us. The ego thinks when we give something away we have less of it. Giving thus becomes a "sacrifice." To feel this "loss" when we give is to affirm sacrifice is real. But when we receive God's Gifts we are increased, and God is increased when these Gifts are given. If we give more Love, we increase that Love in us and in the others to whom we are giving. Gi...

What would get us into the Heaven State of Being? This is what Markus Ray discusses in this overview of A Course in Miracles in the Belgian Loving Relationships Training (The LRT®). What is the Paradigm of Joy? How can we get into it and maintain it? ACIM offers us miracles to "undo" the hell we made up, and help us accept the Heaven of our original creation. We can remember who we are,...

This Lesson is the "door to Heaven" through which we are asked to pass, and the "key" to opening this door is complete forgiveness. We let forgiveness rest upon every atom of creation in the universe—all things. Nothing short of complete forgiveness will be the "key to happiness." The means of our salvation is the Atonement. The key is in our own hands. This Lesson #...

 "How pure, how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile, with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him." We are afraid of accepting this Truth, and the miracles that would establish this Truth in our minds. Th...

Can we see that suffering is something we bring upon ourselves? Christ's vision would apply forgiveness to all things that are not Pure Joy. There is no room for anything but Joy and Perfect Happiness This Lesson can free us from fear, attack, guilt, anger and all forms of suffering. We must let forgiveness rest upon all things. We must apply it to receive the results of freedom from suffering...

What are we requesting? If we receive what we "do not want," somewhere in our frequency we have requested it. If we are in pain, there are thoughts we have that put us in pain. This Lesson #339 gets us clear that we receive what we have requested. And all the more reason we need to forgive ourselves for the subconscious memories and thoughts that bring us ill effects. We need to make no...

What is the content of our mind? This content is composed of memories and thoughts. These thoughts and memories have their effects. There are Thoughts in the Mind of God that we share with our Creator. Are these the Thoughts we are "thinking?" Are we aware of our Divine Thoughts? All thought produces form at all levels. The mind never sleeps. It is always with thoughts of separation or T...

Markus Ray speaks in Valencia, Spain, on the importance of ACIM in these times. He gives the background of this modern day scripture, and what the challenges are in studying it. A correction of Christianity lies underneath the direct relationship with Jesus that one forms by being a student of ACIM. Spoken to a Spanish audience, this intro to ACIM can awaken the interest of spiritual seekers to ta...

We are the Self God Loves. As this Self we are entitled to perfect happiness all of the time. Yet, we have to let go of the "self we made" that thinks it is a "sinner." We have made mistakes, but we are absolved of all consequences from those mistakes when we accept the Atonement for ourselves. God holds nothing against us when we are willing to give up our judgments, attack th...

Can we transcend the dimension of perception? Can we rise above separation? We transcend the level of perception by forgiving everyone and everything. We have no grievances. Wholeness and completeness are the results of rising above perception. The end of perception is achieved through complete forgiveness. I look through Christ's vision that looks upon a forgiven world. Can er enter into this...

Forgiveness is a choice. We choose to not see the records of "wrongdoing" of our brother, or even of ourself. We let the past go, and do not hold the mistakes of bygone days get the better of our judgments. In fact, we let all judgments go, and admit we do not know. This empty space is more conducive to accepting the Atonement for ourselves. We are absolved our our errors when we do not...

There is a Peace that forgiveness bestows on us. It is up to us to claim it. Do we value the Peace of God that is offered through forgiveness? We would have to value it in order to claim it. And we would have to master forgiveness—letting go of judgments, grievances and attack thoughts—in order to claim these gifts. Would we value Peace? Would we master forgiveness in order to have its full blazin...