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

THE GIFTS OF GOD are given to us. Can we COMPLETELY FORGIVE and receive them? Can we let go of our girevances? our attack thoughts? Can we "completely let go?" This is the doorway into Heaven. The sign over it says "total forgiveness." We have to forgive ourselves and everyone completely. This is the key to happiness. Are we willing to do this? The Garden of our Heaven is held...

When we are healed, we are not healed alone. This is Lesson #137 in the Workbook. There is a belief in sickness and death, which are but "illusions" introduced into the mind by our ego, the "separated self." Healing is Life, and Life encompasses everyone. Ultimately healing is the overcoming of all forms of death by our True Self, the Christ. This Truth is strengthened in us wh...

We defend against the truth by thinking that "pain and suffering" are more real than a Heavenly State of Being.  We have violated our Peace of Mind as the Truth, over which God has given us Free Will. We rule our Mind, and to think thoughts that contradict JOY, such as "sickness," then we get the results that proceed from those thoughts.  GOD's Will for us is perfect happin...

What is the main Goal we have? The main "problem" we need to solve? There is the Truth that we are given, that we will not fail to reach when we truly seek this unchanging Love of our Creator for us. Heaven is given to us and is our inheritance. We will enter into it when we are ready to claim only that. We cannot fail. The Truth is synonymous with perfect happiness. What God Wills for u...

Life presents us with many "problems"—unresolved issues that seem to cry out for solutions. This Lesson #79 indicates we only have one real "problem" and therefore one real Answer. "Separation" from an awareness of our Source is the one problem. And this Source is defined as the state of being free of all problems. There are various movements and energies in our lives...

We are as God created us. As holy children of God, we are entitled to miracles. God's Will for Perfect Happiness is our inheritance, and we can claim it. Perfect Happiness is our right. We are "entitled" to have and experience this Perfect Happiness.  The heavenly state of being is my right to claim. I am entitled to the miracles that will show me a different reality. I have a differ...

PEACE is our inheritance when we align with the Will of our Creator. When two minds join in unequivocal intention to manifest this Peace of God, it is inevitably given.  Can we really mean these words beyond our thinking?  "I WANT THE PEACE OF GOD." We must go beyond small goals, wishful thinking, and aspirations unattained.  We discover a truth, we bring it into application in our life,...

Forgiveness is total or not at all. Can we let go of all attachment to grievances and wanting things to be different than what we are given? The best way to let go of what we do not want is to stop fighting it, and focus on the good conditions of Grace that hold out the peace and joy of God for us.  Can we "completely let go?" Total forgiveness lets us receive the Grace God has in store...

It is a fact that all pain in the body or in our life is preceded by negative thoughts that attract this pain. We can let go and change these "thoughts that hurt." This is the main miraculous shift our mind must make for our healing to take place.  These Lessons are at the crux of Spiritual Healing, which delve into the different levels in the Mind that are holding the cause of our &quot...

GOD'S LOVE is ONE. This is extended to everyone. There is no human being who should be held apart from God's Love. This is simply a fact. A Course in Miracles is here to impart this Truth To Us. AMEN.

These Lessons #252 and #253 are true statements of our Identity. There are no limitations that could hold us back in concepts of "littleness" that would deny our God created Self.  We are not victims of our self-imposed limitations. There are no limitations to our True Self. This "Self" is the "Ruler of the Universe." Are we willing to make this leap into a dimension...

GOD does not condemn. There is no "sin." We have made mistakes, for sure, but correction is alway possible, and a "lesson" God would have us learn. We need only the Truth of our God-Created Identity. This Identity is Peace, Love and Joy. The Will of God created us in Love and Joy, and this is the TRUTH. There is no "sin" that forgiveness cannot erase in our minds, sta...

Our TRUE SELF is clearly the subject of this Podcast, as is the Lesson, "I am as God Created me." This statement is repeated three times in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. Therefore, it is supremely important for us to realize its truth within ourselves.  How would this change your life, knowing you are as God Created You? What could God create but the immortal and the eternal? The...

What would it take for us to "wake up" into Christ's Vision? Certainly we would have to step outside of the mind of the ego—all of the "attack thoughts" and "grievances" that possess our attention. We do not allow the ego "to obscrure the sight of Christ." This action we must take within ourselves. Christ stands ready when we are, to help us, yet the fir...

The special relationship is founded on a need to "get something" from another, because we feel deficient in something. We expect another to complete us in a way we cannot complete ourselves. This inevitably ends in anger, and a projection of guilt onto another.  It's like saying, "Because you do not complete me, and wipe away my feelings of deficiency, you ar guilty!" We ge...

There is are no "private thoughts" because minds are joined. (The union of bodies is the ego's priciple means to keep minds apart). It is not a "sacrifice" to see beyond the body to the Mind that is joined and of real communication in innocence. Guilt is not existent, though the ego believes in it for the "separation" it cherishes. True communication is the end of...

The HOLINESS that we are—walks with GOD. GOD is LIFE. LIFE is LOVE. We are immersed in this LIGHT of truth. This Lesson helps us to realize our "oneness" with all of Creation.  We are blessed by the picture of a heavenly garden in which we live. We are here to extend this holiness to all of the creatures of the earth. We bless the earth with our Divine Nature.  Into the Presence of the C...

Anything we put after the statement "I AM" will instantly manifest something. It will manifest Life or Death, Heaven or Hell. Are we in a state of wholeness, connection, and joy; or are we in a state of imagined separtaion, pain, and suffering?  This is a lesson of our Identity. Who are we? The question is answered in this Leasson #191, and our sinlessness and guarantee of immortality is...

What happens when we CALL UPON GOD'S NAME? What exactly is it? There are words that have different vibrations and frequnecies. A swear word has a very low frequency, immersed in anger and sarcasm. A word describing God would have a lofty vibration, an very high frequency. We are asked to call upon God's Name and clean our minds with this Mantra. Mantra Breathing does this as well. This recitation...

THE POWER OF DECISION is what determines our reality. We are able to see that our thoughts are our desisions. We rule our mind, and the thoughts in this mind. We can think with the ego's thoughts or the Holy Spirit's Thoughts. This is the one important decision we will make. We choose our own "hell" or our Heaven. We even consent to "death." If we are stressed, it is be...

THE FACE OF CHRIST is all encompassing. We correct ourselves and look upon our "sinlessness.” If we attach "guilt" to our “errors," we end up with the belief in "sin."  When true correction is our first love, and this true correction does not see our "errors" as real, it therefore sees our innocence always intact. A mistake may very well have been made, but...

HOLINESS is our natural state of being. DO we have contact with it? This is our essential awareness of who we are. We can use this Lesson in the moment. It can transform any upsetting situation into one of Peace and acceptance. It can be applied to any problem. It works. My holiness can not only bless, but can also "solve problems."

NO ONE CAN FAIL when we seek to reach the TRUTH of the HEAVEN STATE of BEING. Truth is here NOW. Not in the future, or in some fantasy of an idyllic past. Heaven is here. It exists in the infinite NOW that is always here. TODAY WE FIND IT. We forgive everyone, and everything we sought to give us happiness that did not. We seek a different world today. We cannot fail when we leave behind the "...

We are in a WAR AGAINST OURSELVES when we think "sin" is real. The mistakes we made do not make us "guilty." We are innocent regardless of any mistakes we made.  Only Innocence is real, and "sin" does not exist. Sinlessness is our real Strength. Guilt and Attack, the aspects of “sin,” make us weak.  The world of duality does not really exist even thought we are caught...

IF WE DEFEND OURSELVES WE ARE ATTACKED. It is a mind that feels threat that makes defenses. Then it projects the fears it harbors onto the body.  It is the Mind that has made defenses that are unnecessary.  The Mind needs healing with a release from fear, guilt, anger, etc. The "self" that needs defenses is not real. The Self God created does not indulge in fear. It is safe and immortal...