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

WE CAN SEE PEACE INSTEAD OF THIS (those things that may be upsetting us). NOthing real can be threatened, so nothing should be upsetting us at all. Whenever we feel our peace is threatened, this thought is the "antidote" to the misperception of conflict, disorder, anger, upset, etc. We can replace any feelings of upset with this real contact with peace. We must give up the notion of comp...

FOR THEY HAVE COME. Who are they? What would invoke Them to make Their Presence known in our life? What would block Them from coming? Seeing the holiness of our brothres, especially the ones we "love to hate," prepares the way for us to receive the Help of the Ascended Masters. Without forgiveness in the true sense, we close the door to receive Them. But with the Light of True Forgivenes...

I REST IN GOD. Is this true for us? Are we resting in God in our daily activites? The application of trust requres a serious attention that we give to the deeper meaning of that action. We would have to drop everything to Rest in God. "We ask for rest unshaken by the world's appearances." Can we be stalwart in our request for Peace, Stillness, Safety, and an Answer to our way of livi...

THE GIFTS OF GOD are tangibly intangible. They are states of being beyond thought forms that can be realized in actualizations of thought forms. It is important that we can corroborate the Gifts through their manifestations. Yet, we must trust that these states of being are already in us and can be invoked.   Forgiveness is the key to happiness and offers us these gifts. When we completely forgive...

GIVING UP ATTACK THOUGHTS is the action of Lesson # 23. Can we cease to perceive ourselves as "unfairly treated?" When we feel "victimized," we will justify our "attack thoughts" toward those whom we feel treated us unfairly. This is a deception of the ego to perceive ourselves in a dangerous world of attack and counter attack. We are changing our dream of war, confli...

We DECIDE TO FORGET our Divine Connection, but it is still there in blazing certainty when we are willing to restore our awareness of who we really are.  God's Peace and Joy are mine, but I had chosen to forget them when I made fear, guilt and anger real.  If we are not happy, then something is off. We decided to forget Pure Joy. Now is the time for us to remember our Self-Identity. This is fr...

I AM SUSTAINED BY THE LOVE OF GOD. What is that? What is the LOVE OF GOD that sustains us? The LOVE OF GOD will transport us into a different state of mind. It will give us Perfect Happiness. The LOVE OF GOD will protect us in all circumstances. Do we have a conscious contact with this incredible Energy of sustenance? Do we have this level of TRUST?  Do we feel alone and abandoned? Without support...

GOD'S VOICE SPEAKS TO ME. Am I listening? What am I hearing? Can we let go of the "chatter of thought" that distracts us? The Voice for God is speaking to us all through the day, but for the most part we are absent. We are distracted listening to the voice of the ego.  This Lesson commits us clear out old stuff. There could be guilt we are holding towards the past. The past is over....

I AM NOT A VICTIM, ever. This means that all of my results are what I have asked for. Even the negative results. The thoughts, conscious and subconscious, attract demonstrable results in our "outer world." There really is no difference. We can focus our forgiveness on the thoughts that gave us painful results that we did not want. We have full dominion over our minds which attract our ph...

These NOTES ON HEALING come from the Song of Prayer. It is not the "body" that is "sick." The thoughts of unforgiveness made up a body that could be "sick." The stillness of the Peace of God has a mind that is still. It is not filled with desire and unresolved business. Unforgiveness can bring us back into a body, in the relationships in our world. We can clear the mi...

CAN I FORGET MY PAST? Can I forget my brother's past? The be in our holiness requires this state of mind, free of the past judgments of memory. The Holy Spirit gives us this Lesson of our Holiness, which emanates our Happiness. How can we be in touch with our Holiness holding the grievances of the past? We are as God created us. This is totally in the Present. The past is over. Our Holiness is...

I AM AS GOD CREATED ME. This Lesson, repeated three times in the Workbook, is a simple statement of the truth. Can we receive it in it's full force to transform our life into something of peace and joy? This statement undoes all other projections of a "false self we made up." It removes our ego self long enough to see that it was never real. We have to let go and let the Truth of who...

WHAT HAS VALUE? Can we stop giving value to what has no value? This is a loaded question to those of us who value the fleeting and the corruptible.  We are taught to pursue the things of this world with a dogged passion. And when these things evade us, we put the burden of blame on ourselves.  This Lesson gives us the criteria for a different choice that makes attainable what is already ours, give...

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD'S TEACHERS include Honesty, Faithfulness, and Tolerance. These Characteristics are redefined in this Podcast. Do we want to embody these qualities in ourselves?

GENTLENESS & JOY. These are two of the main characteristics of God's Teachers. Power comes from God, and God is Gentle. There is no need for defense when Gentleness is mastered. Strength and Gentleness go together. When one feels absolutely safe, there is Joy, because Joy and safety go together. And Safety and Defenselessness go together. The ego thinks the opposite—I am more safe with imp...

The JUSTICE OF HEAVEN abolishes the notion of all punishment. Heaven's Justice has no guilt and does not attack. No guilt is projected onto others, becaseu only Innocence is real (no matter what mistakes have been made). Therefore punishment is never just. We have a new Justice of forgiveness. This is free of all forms of "sacrifice." The mistakes we all made had no real "conseq...

SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY requires that we be determined to drop our position about something and actually change our minds. This 180 degree turn is not something the ego wants to do. In fact, it resists dropping its position.  Would we rather be at peace, or would we rather "be right?"  Hanging on to our opinion often means maintaining attack thoughts, irritation, and discontent. Wouldn...

THE LIGHT YOU BRING is through your intention in your mind. "The Light of the World brings Peace to every mind through my forgiveness.” (Lesson 63)  Do we intend to fulfill our function of forgiveness? We are challenged by some—to give the Light in us to them. But we are responsible for how we see them. We are responsible for “withholding the light” from them.  "Let us see the face of Ch...

THE PEACE OF SOURCE WITHIN is already there. External situations cannot put you in that light, because they are not the Source of it. Yet we can reach this light very easily when we look toward our Source within. We came with the peace from our Source. It never left us. We forgot it was there, but it remained fully intact. All that is necessary is that we stop seeking the peace and satisfaction ex...

LITTLENESS VS. MAGNITUDE is a key section in the TEXT of A COURSE IN MIRACLES. The clarity of this Section gets us out of the limiting beliefs we have about ourselves, into a place of the Glory God created us to be.  Our "personal lies" are not true, therefore not real. The Unlimited Being we are would have the Magnitude placed there by our Creator, the Christ Consciousness.  It's a...

SALVATION FROM FEAR is simply accomplished by giving up our attack thoughts. In other word, letting go of anger. One would resist, thinking that defense and attack are necessary to be "safe." In fact, the opposite is true. Attack and anger make us a target for another’s attack, and therefore unsafe.  "In my defenselessness my safety lies," say Jesus in Lesson #153 of the Workbo...

The SONG OF HEALING is one of JOY. Why would it not be? All prison doors are opened, and all pain is gone. Would we not be glad to be healed, and to offer healing to others? We are in the vortex of the Christ when we adopt His Vision to look upon a forgiven world. Can we receive the Gifts of God in order to extend them to others, and thus be Healers with Him?  Can we be among the ministers of God...

THE FINAL Judgment is to see our perfect Sinlessness within, no matter what mistakes we may have made in the past. Only our EGO made the mistake, and we are letting go of the ego. Our higher Self is Sinless, just as everyone and everything in Creation is imbued with the Peace, Joy and Innocence their Creator bestowed on them. We can accept the truth of God's Word today, and as we do, the world...

THE FUTURE IN THE HAND'S OF GOD would give us certainty. But we have to trust that God will only give us that which produces perfect happiness.  If we thought God could give nothing other than love, then we would have no apprehension. But we have the fear of the future that we project onto God.  This Lesson requires we TRUST in GOD and EXPECT GOOD THINGS to come from the very SOURCE of our BEI...

SOLVING THE PROBLEM means recognizing that we have only one problem, and that is our "imagined separation" from our SOURCE. We cannot really be separated in truth, but somehow we got distracted from our Divine Connection, and in forgetting it, we indulged in fear that manufactured all kinds of a multitude of problems.  We are attempting to clear up this "imagined separation" he...