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

Who are we? We are Sons and Daughters of God. We are One in this shared Identity. This is not an "image of ourself" we have made, but rather a blessing of God laid opon us forever and ever. We are The Son He Loves. What else then, could we extend to our brothers and sisters. Can we put away all grievances, attack thoughts, fear, guilt, or anger in order to accept your True Self? We must. And we ca...

Why would we be afraid of our own Identity? Obviously we have made up a false self whom we think is "us," and it scares the bejeebies out of us to give it up. We are more concerned with the "benefits" of maintaining this false self than the actual reality of Who we are as God Created us to be. Love is who we are in the absolute sense. This Self is immortal, boundless, unlimited, at one with all of...

We seldom see that sickness is brought about by thought forms. These thoughts are not God's Thoughts of perfect happiness. In fact, sickness is a defense against this truth. Being "hurt" is preceded by thoughts that deny our Divine Connection with Pure Joy. The Bliss of God is our natural state of being. Separation from this state of being is what we are attempting to heal with A Course in Miracle...

Who God created limitless is free. And we are that. So how could we be limited by anything? The language of these words from Jesus in ACIM are beyond anything uttered in the English Language. They are evolving us upward. We have to take pause, and let these words sink into our soul. We need to apply the Lessons to our everyday life and adapt upwards. Let us go up the ladder of holiness together.&n...

There is no freedom but now. There is no real bondage other than the prison we impose upon ourselves. When we realize we are part of Creation, we are free. The "laws" of fear, guilt, and anger are vengeful dreams that punish and bind us to death. Creation's immortality is free already here for us. Our liberation is now. There is no postponement of total freedom for us, promised by Creation. It is...

Who but ourselves can we bind with thoughts of limitation? And could God be limited to a body that lives for awhile then dies? We are Sons of God who are boundless, unlimited. Let us not be merely entities of mortal flesh that enevitably come to an end. Rather are we beings of the spirit that have immortality at our core. 

This Lesson helps us put our foot down and not listen to all the senseless rules and regulations by which we bind ourselves in life. We are under no laws but God's (Lesson #76). This is the lave of Love—what do I have to give? Giving is the only law under which I am governed. Let's find what we have to give and put our joy into that. It is something of the Spirit that brings us pure Joy. 

We do not often think we are speaking "the word of God." The loftiness of such an utterance would take us to a different dimension that we are not used to in everyday life. But nonetheless, we are asked to go to this dimension and speak something that is lofty. We are unwilling, for the most part. But why? Would we trust that this word would put us in pure Peace and Joy? Or are we addicted to our...

What would God say to us? Do we have the ears to hear it? We must. What else would we be listening to? Our fears and concerns? Our "problems?" Can we bring our minds to silence and "have the ears to hear" God's Healing Voice? In this Podcast Markus and Sondra discuss what it means to really listen to a Voice beyond our ego's raucous ravings. We are awakened in a state of attention, when we quiet o...

We are as God Created us in LOVE. Nothing else but this is true. Nothing else but this is worth our attention. We are in a state of Joy realizing this fact. Anything short of Pure Joy does not merit our attention. But we must include our Brother in this ascension into our Holy Identity. Together we ascend. Separate we stay stuck. Today belongs to Love with our Brother. In that state of Holy Relati...

How long will we wait for the day of "undisturbed tranquility?" This is what A Course in Miracles is awakening us to claim. Do we want the Peace of God above all else? If not, why not? Would we rather have the disappointments that inevitably accompany worldly pursuits and endeavors? Let's get our priorities straight at least. The Peace of God is our top priority. And then from there, "all things s...

The Holy Spirit asks so little of us to come to our aid. Yet, the ego wants to offer all kinds of penance to "make ourselves worthy" of receiving God's good graces. What if none of this were necessary? In fact, doing something to merit God's grace blocks the reception of this very grace. We need do nothing to receive the Holy Spirit's help. Can we "do nothing?" The ego loves a "plan of action" it...

What but the truth can satisfy God's Son? He knows His Identity in God. This is the truth. This is the Christ. Anything short of this would not be the truth. It would be an illusion, a substitute for the whole truth. Let us today accept ourselves as what our Father's Will created us to be. In this Self-Identity we share with the Christ, we are united, healed, and whole. Let us rejoice in this fact...

How do we see? What eyes are we using? Yesterday said, "I will not use the body's eyes today." So then what? What is this "Christ's vision" that does not use the body's eyes? It seems almost beyond our understanding. Indeed. But it is accessible or Jesus would not ask us to use "Christ's vision." Do we want this above all else? Can we make it there in our highest intentions for the day? What highe...

What gives us true vision but the Christ? What deceives us but the filter of judgments we use from what the body's eyes perceive. We can trade the way we are seeing now with the body's eyes for Christ's vision—of a forgiven world. This is the decision we must make. 

What but the Christ are we to see in our brothers and sisters? And this applies to our worst "enemies." Are we students of A Course in Miracles or not? The challenges and temptations of judgments are always there to test us. Will we see with "Christ's vision" or with the ego's vision, which is not seeing at all. Looking upon Christ's face is the only real purpose for holy vision. Can we do this? W...

What would reality look like with no fear? no sense of loss? no problems whatsoever? This is what Reality with a capital "R" is—a state of being in Heaven. Let all things be exactly as they are. What function do they have in Heaven? Either they have a function or they do not. We can let go of all that is not in our Heaven. God's will for us is perfect happiness, therefore what is not "happy" is no...

What makes our heart beat? The Life and the Love of God pulse through us. Are we in touch with this Source Energy that sustains us every second? Would we not have immense gratitude, then, for this Life we share with our Creator? Sink into this Lesson #267 It is beautifully poetic and goes to the core of our most sacred heart. Blessings abound in our hearts. Amen. 

"This day we enter into Paradise, calling upon God's Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us." What could be more clear? The way to Heaven is through acknowledging the Christ in each one of us. No one is excluded in this holy vision. We are apt to judge certain people as unworthy of being a "Son of God." This Lesson corrects us. To exclude anyone from the Sonship would be to excl...

The gentleness of creation is the theme of this lesson. Are we in touch with it? Or do we have fears in our mind that prevent us from making this contact with the  peace of creation? "Creation's gentleness is all I see." This would require that we put aside our self-projected fears and be with the stillness of the peace of God within our minds. 

What but the Love and Peace and Joy of God surrounds us? Are we in touch with it? It is all there is in truth, but we are preoccupied with our projections of thought's illusions. The Peace of God is shining in us now. Are we aware of that. The Love of God envelops and and keeps us safe. What other "joy" would we rather seek? A paltry substitute for Love, no less. But the Mighty Source of the Unive...

How do you see? What is it you see? The fundamental question is what is in our Mind that determines our seeing. To see "all things as pure," we would need a different kind of seeing, which requires a different kind of thinking. Are we thinking with our Holy Mind that gives us Christ's Vision? This is the only kind of seeing worth having, and the result of that is a vision of purity. This Podcast e...

What is separate from us? What if we saw clearly the unified field of creation and that nothing is separate from us? There is one life, says Lesson #166. How could it be divided into parts, and then those parts seen as "different" from one another? Wholeness and Oneness are the results of applying this Lesson: "Let me perceive no differences today." This unification not only takes place between ou...

Can we give up all other forms of what we think is our "refuge and security" and place our sole faith in God? What would that mean for us? To the ego that feels like placing our faith in nothing.  But we can make this breakthrough today. We can relinquish all other forms of safety but this:  Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify wi...

We are Sons and Daughters of God. This is just a fact. We did not "make" ourselves. Did you design a lung? a heart? the fingers on your hands? Obviously there is a force of Creation that operates beyond our understanding. A Force of Life greater than ourselves is the Source of us. And let's just call that GOD. We could also call that LOVE.  We can remember this. Love created you and me. We ar...