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

Can we be in present time? The NOW is the only time there is. Christ's Presence is here now. The perfection of Life is in this Instant. Can we be with this present instant? What would that be, to be totally immersed in our present moment? The "redemption" of total forgiveness is here. Christ's vision is here now. We are absolved of former mistakes. We are corrected in this Holy I...

The Will of God is something different than fleeting "wishes." "God's Will for me is perfect happiness." This would be free of all conflict. Preferences and choices could be our "conflicting wishes" that do not bring us peace. We are responsible for conflict in our life. And these conflicts are thoughts. We do not normally see that we are causing our own pain—our...

Christ's vision is what we are seeking as students of A Course in Miracles. To look on a "forgiven world" is to accept the Atonement for ourselves, through extending total forgiveness to others. The "gift of Christ" is the vision of this "forgiven world." It requires that we totally let go of our mindset from the past and arrive at that "empty place" wit...

There is a peace that accompanies Christ's vision in which we "let forgiveness rest up all things." He bestows it upon us as we are willing to forgive ourselves and everyone else, including all situations in which we feel "stuck." The ego wants to hold on, in spite of the pain and suffering that it has manufactured. There is an unwillingness to admit we are responsible for...

What is our world but our "filters" through which we perceive and project our "reality." Perception is our thought mixed with the input of the body's senses. We obscure the "sight of Christ" with our filter of the ego. Perfect Happiness is ours when we use Christ's vision to perceive. Are we using Christ's eyes to see? The darkness of our bad moods is some...

Can we be "born again" today in the version that A Course in Miracles holds out to us? This may not fit in the terminology that we have been skeptical to receive from the "fundamentalist" churches that we rejected in the past. Being "born again" had pejorative feeling in our claiming of Self-Reliance in our search for our true identity. We are asking the Angels to wit...

This is an action of shifting out of all the preoccupation with the past and the problems we bring forward from the past; we embrace the light of the present in which we have forgiven our past. Willingness to forgive totally is the key to this light. "Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world,' is Lesson #62. Guilt is gone in the present, and guilt is the major "cause of s...

The advent of "The Second Coming" is upon us. Can we extend ourselves and our awareness of our part in this "Second Coming?" Can we awaken into our Christ Consciousness? Can we "let forgiveness rest upon all things," especially on all aspects of our own life? This is our life action that realizes (or not) this Self we share. We hope that coming together will give us t...

This Lesson gives us a choice to make, between the world of sorrow and death, or the world of complete forgiveness that represents Christ's vision. The real world is the latter, and from this platform does God Himself reach down to us and draw us nigh unto the Heaven in which we were originally created. The instant this will take for us is outside of time. It is here now when we let go of maki...

HI. OFF TO HERAKHAN TODAY. Eternal Holiness abides there. And in us. The true Herakhan is inside us. HUGS

Gratitude and Love go together. Forgiveness erases all that is not Love. The way to Love God is to Love our brothers and sisters, God's Son. What better directions could we have? We have a responsibility to come to this inner peace of mind.

In order to be free of guilt from all of the mistakes we hold in our subconscious, we have to master forgiveness and extend it to others. As we forgive others for their "mistakes," we are absolved of any regrets or guilt from our own mistakes. Thus are we both freed at once and restored to the awareness of innocence in which we were created. God's will for us is that we are aware of...

Who speaks through us? The voice of Love or the voice of fear? We have a decision to make and this requires we silence our thought, in order to make contact with a Voice beyond our projections. The Holy Spirit is here for us, but we have to be Present to meet this Voice. The Voice of the Holy Spirit is for the salvation of our world, yet we have to be listening to it, and allowing it to be spoken...

Who looks through us? Who is the Self we share called the Christ? What would Christ see? Can we look on a forgiven world and thus redeem our brothers and ourselves? This is what is asked of us today. Can we let forgiveness rest upon all things, and thus join the Christ in redeeming the world and ourselves simultaneously? It is a challenge worth considering. 

This Lesson #294 tells us the proper perspective of the body. We all have one. It is not the Self, nor should we confuse it for our Self. It is, rightly seen, a "neutral thing" to be used in service to the Self. It is a communication device to communicate the Truth. The Truth is I am Love and you are Love and we are not separate from Love.  Shared, our interests become one. This is the proper...

Gratitude for the beauty of everything in the present is what gets us out of fear. Fear is in the past or the future, in time. But love is timeless. Its effects are always observable. We can be in love or fear. The decision is ours.  To which will we give our attention? The answer is only one Thought away. 

God gives a guarantee in this Lesson that "a happy outcome to all things is sure." But we cannot have an "alien will." We cannot maintain grievances, attack thoughts, judgments, and low opinions of ourselves and others. Forgiveness is the doorway to this happy place. Can we trust that God will do the work required to restore relationships to a "happy outcome," when we do you part in complete forgi...

The real world is one of stillness and of peace. It is one in which we have forgiven the world completely, and God's final step to engulf our minds is at hand. Have we made our forgiveness complete? Are we still holding grievances and judgments? These are the challenges to bringing this Lesson #291 into application. The Prayer is particularly poignant: "Let my forgiveness be complete and the memor...

"My present happiness is all I see." Is this what we are seeing? Are we awakening into the Joy that our Creator holds out to us? Or are we focused on our witnesses to "pain and suffering." Are we willing to see that we manufacture our own unhappiness? Are we willing to take 100% responsibility for how we feel and elect to change the thoughts that hurt us and make us unhappy? We must be willing to...

How can we let go of the past and be free? The forgiven world is here for us to see when we completely let go. Can we let go? Can we let go completely? We need the help of a Higher Power to do that. What are we hanging on to that prevents this holy vision of a forgiven world to come to us? Love holds no grievances, and all grievances are in the past. We replay the past in the present and form our...

Can we forget our brother's past in the very moment we are tempted to judge and dismiss him? This is the ultimate test as students of A Course in Miracles we will be asked to pas through. Often we flunk. But there will be a time, with practice, in which we will not flunk. We will forget our brother's past and our own simultaneously. This will be a day of rejoicing. Why not today!

To what do we give our day as our main goal? The lesson asks us to devote our goal to our Father.  It asks us 5 important questions:  Where would I go but Heaven?  What could be a substitute for happiness?  What gift could I prefer before the peace of God?  What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity?  And would I rather live with fe...

Heaven is within us now. Why wait for it to embrace our hearts? Today it can be ours. Can we allow this awareness to engulf our minds? We are the Sons and Daughters God Loves. What are we waiting for? Let us accept our Divine Reality today, without delay. 

The nature of our holiness is JOY. The two go together. Pain suffering, loss, sickness, have nothing to do with Love. JOY and all forms of suffering are mutually exclusive. In fact, they are defenses against Love. When they are present, they indicate the absence of Love. They are surely a "call for Love." Forgiveness is called upon to meet them. Silence and Stillness are the first responses in the...

We can change our minds. The mind we have been using attracts pain and suffering. Our negative thoughts make up sickness, suffering and death. We are the cause of our own demise. By the same token, we can elect to change all the thoughts in our subconscious mind that hurt us. "I rule my mind that I alone must rule," is Lesson #236. Because we rule the mind, we can change the thoughts we think with...