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

The concept of "sin" includes "guilt." Many organized religions believe that people are born automatically as "sinners," and they can only be "redeemed" by Jesus, some mythical entity outside of themselves. There is no sin. And the Christ is the higher energy of absolute Love already your Identity. And everyone else's for that matter, whether they are aware of it or not. Love and Sin cannot coexis...

In the TEXT ( Chapter 4, Sec. III, ❡ 1 ) Jesus corrects our thinking about the statement, "The  Kingdom of Heaven is within you" Heaven is not something "outside" that now you are bringing "inside," as though is is a separate entity. He says: The word "within" is unnecessary. The Kingdom of Heaven is you. What else but you did the Creator create, and what else but you is His Kingdom?   T...

Can we remember that our goal in life is to be happy? Happiness comes in may forms. And there are times when we "feel bad," not happy at all. Yes, everything that comes to us we "asked for." Maybe not consciously, but subconsciously. Now we are even aligning our subconscious with Pure Joy. We put aside all conflicting goals but this one. This is our Holy Purpose. Teach only Love and Joy, for that...

Forgiveness in the world of "separation" is the only means back to the remembrance of God, and of our true Self that is certain of its connection to Source. Had we not imagined the "separation," forgiveness would not be needed. But we did imagine it. Therefore, we need a means to "undo" that mistake. This is the means back—forgive yourself and everyone else. NOW. Not by first making errors real, t...

Our choice is what we attend to. Will we give our attention to perfect peace throughout our day? How will we spend it? This Lesson shows us that Heaven is always here, within us, but we can distract ourselves with pain, suffering, and sorrow. This is a matter of decision. "Heaven is the decision I must make." (Lesson #138). Therefore, it is the only decision that requires our undivided attention....

To whom are we listening? We have to step out of the torrential flow of thought. The mind free of thought loves silence. In this quiet place of stillness, it is possible to receive. And what we hear, when we truly have disengaged from our ego's mind of problems, judgments, projections, and plans, is something from the Holy Spirit. It begins with Silence. What we "hear" in this awareness is the Voi...

How vast is our true Self, Who has made its will one with God's Will. Everything that happens to us we have called for it. Therefore, what is the lesson in an emotionally upsetting and charged exchange? These incidents in our life did not just happen on their own. We called them forth. We are the rulers of our Destiny. With the Holy Spirit and Christ leading us, we return to the Heaven state which...

Who we are is revealed in this simple Lesson. We are the Sons of God in our true Self. Nothing that we have made has any consequences that would negate this fact. Today we can say to God— I may waken to the truth in You, and know that Heaven is restored to me. Knowing who we are as God created us restores our sanity.  We are sinless. We are beloved of God. His light shines upon us and in us....

What is our truth? We are Divine Beings, created in Joy and Truth. Truth is Joy and Joy is Truth. We are in need of nothing but the Truth. We are Children of God and that is a fact, and God's will for us is perfect happiness. Are we willing to stay in that vibration of the Truth. Joy is all around us. Will we accept this truth for ourselves right now? There is no better time than now. 

How do we limit ourselves? Judgments of ourselves and others? Attack thoughts shot out at certain people and situations? Cutting people off who offend us? Seeing ourselves as "good" and others as "evil?" There are many ways in which we limit the effulgence of our spirit. Yet, the glory of God awaits us any moment. We can apply this lesson throughout the day when any limiting belief contradicts our...

Forgiveness is the "master erase." There are stages to real forgiveness. I admit "I was wrong because perfect happiness was interrupted. I ask for the inner correction needed. I allow the Holy Spirit the space to undo all the consequences I do not want. I want to be corrected."  This is the essence of forgiveness as the Course teaches us. These are the steps that give us a Love of inner corre...

This Lesson makes it clear that all pain, suffering, and grief are not part of our true SELF. Therefore, we have to transmute them to Peace. The Peace of God is our inheritance, and this implies we need to undo and process out any fear, anger, or guilt that may be contributing to our suffering. The key in this lesson is to see that we have caused our own suffering, and with the help of the Holy Sp...

There will be people your life who really activate you. They may be attacking you emotionally. You might think of them as your "enemy."  It is no accident they are in your life. They are helping you to clear the darkened corners of your mind and heart that you have kept hidden. They are your "savior for the day." They may be challenging you to admit you were wrong about them. They may be aski...

This is the Lesson that can lead us out of strife, especially with that person who is the most activating in our life right now. The person who is activating is our "savior for the day" as we are told in Lesson #78:  Let me behold my savior in this one  You have appointed as the one for me  to ask to lead me to the holy light in which  he stands, that I may join with him. This...

Since we we told yesterday we are in danger nowhere in the world, what would be the result of that? Today's lesson is the result of seeing no danger in anything. The peace of God is with us, and we are safe no matter what situation confronts us. We can meet any challenge, any apparent danger, any family conflict with the peace of God shining in us. As a result of this peace, we are safe. There is...

Why do we feel threatened? What is danger? Is it our physical body that we fear will be injured or come to an end? Why do we ever feel in danger? This Lesson gives us an antidote to fear and danger. There is a Divine Protection into which we can enter. This Lesson takes us into that. Are we willing to go there?  

"Today I will judge nothing that occurs." Can we bring this lesson into application? Not that easy sometimes. A situation that is upsetting always involves our own contribution to it. Did you ever notice when there is a "problem," you are there? Your thought forms and memories contribute to the problem. Your judgments feed it. Therefore, your removal of judgments begins to diffuse it. A "problem"...

Can we be guided in this day we give to God? The TEXT tells us to "make no decisions by ourself." This Lesson instructs us to ask Him Who knows the way to God to lead us to our Holy Home. Will we ask? This is the challenge, isn't it--to ask the Holy Spirit, "What would You have me do? Where would You have me go? What would You have me say, and to whom?" These are the questions we can ask once an h...

Today we begin Section 3. of PART II of the Workbook of ACIM: What is the world? And it begins by saying we have to forgive everything in this world because it was made out of separation, and it is an "attack on God." Those are strong words. Salvation is here now when we forgive everything, most of all ourselves. Can we do it? With the Holy Spirit's help we can. This Holy Instant, now, is the only...

Fear is not justified.  We are in the momentum of our "thought," which ACIM calls "meaningless." This kind of full sweep of the mind is what is needed to eliminate fear. Fear is NEVER JUSTIFIED. God is not the culprit of our fear and suffering. We are. When will we stop projecting fear? Why not today?

Do we connect with the Glory of God on a regular basis? Or do we sell ourselves short of perfect happiness? What is this Glory spoken of in the Lesson? Do we experience it? We seem to be challenged by some people to have harmonious and lasting relationships. Can we "see the face of Christ" in them instead of their mistakes and our mistakes? Claiming the Gifts of God of our Glory depends on this.

Do we really get the urgency of being a student of A Course in Miracles? "On my decision all salvation rests." That's like saying the well being of every person on the planet is affected by me and my decision for salvation. What is this "decision?" I mean, it must be BIG for Jesus to say this to us. Think about it. It's huge. However, we are not entrusted with this kind of a thing if we are not ca...

Now would we be who God created us to be. Who else would we be? The "self we made up" is capricious and full of problems and conflicts. The Self God created is clear, changeless, and forever immersed  in the Peace of God. Why would we want to be anything but that? This Lesson helps us to claimn our Self Identity. Let's be grateful for the clarity. 

We have dominion over how we feel. Feelings are spearheaded by thoughts, and we rule our mind which contains these thoughts. How we feel is in our mind, based on the thoughts we choose to think. We rule over this mind. We are the sovereigns of our mind. Therefore, we are the determiners of how we feel—JOY or SORROW. Which emotion do we serve? LOVE or FEAR. This dialogue between Markus and Sondra R...

What is Salvation? A state of perfect happiness is promised in A Course in Miracles. Nothing short of this is worthy of God's Son [or Daughter]. We are as God created is in a perfect state of Joy. The Lesson #235 states: I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this," and merely watch them disappear. I need but...