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

GIVING UP ATTACK THOUGHTS can help us to escape the world we made up of fear, vengeance, anger, and general lack of safety. A dangerous world is one of attack thoughts. These project a hell on earth. We are responsible for that projection. Peace is power, and we can see Peace instead of our world of threat and attack. But it is only through our process of letting go, "true forgiveness,"...

THERE IS NO WILL BUT GOD'S. Thank goodness perfect happiness, and perfect happiness only, is God's will for us. And this is all that has reality in truth.  Are we aligned with it? And if not, why not?  We can project all kinds of problems and be in the frequency of discontent. But the Peace of God is ours. We have to claim it and let go of anything in us that would contradict God's Wil...

SPECIAL LOVE RELATIONSHIPS are an illusion of Love. Underneath them is lurking a SPECIAL HATE RELATIONSHIP. This Lesson is for us to look upon the "specialness" we have fallen deceived by, and step out of the thought system of "specialness." LOVE is not an illusion. Love tempered by hate is meaningless. Real Love has no opposite. Can we rise to be in this Absolute Relationship...

KNOWLEDGE, as part of CREATION, is BEYOND LEARNING. It is given, not learned. But learning has a role in Forgiveness, which prepares us to receive Knowledge.  We learn to correct our perception through miracles. We thought a certain way that produced suffering. Now we think a different way that produces Joy, and we maintain this shift in perception.  When our forgiveness rests upon all things and...

I SEE NOTHING AS IT IS NOW because the ego's thought system is based on the past, and I am using the ego's thought system. To see in the Present I need to step outside of thought itself. In that silence I can be given a new vision, but I am responsible first to silence my thought. Then the Holy Spirit's Thought System of miracles can be given me.

THE GRATITUDE WE EARN comes when forgiveness is practiced. We let go of our attack thoughts, grievances, fear, guilt, and anger in order to earn awarenesss of an absolute gratitude. This kind of gratitude is unaffected by external conditions.

LOVE HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES. Grievances are like a poison that kill us. If we knew this would we hold them? The actions we need to take to let go of them are discussed in this Podcast.

USING THE BODY TO PROVE IMMORTALITY means that we use the Body only to communicate LIFE, not DEATH, and LOVE, not HATE. It has a mighty function of ENDLESS LIFE.  We are at the place beyond the Crucifixion of using the body in the service of TRUTH, not the "lie of death.”  We are using the body to PROVE IMMORTALITY.  No attack thoughts are expressed through the body's actions of communica...

ODE TO THE CHRIST is a free verse poem by Markus Ray inspired by two paintings — "The Crucifixion" by Jacopo Tintoretto, in the School of San Rocco in Venice, and "The Resurrection" by Mathias Grünewald, a panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, France. Markus Ray has done pilgrimages to both paintings in person.  This Ode is an account of those ev...

THE END OF CONFLICT happens when we make our will one with our Creator's Will. There is no conflict in the Universal Will of God. When we are "aligned" with that, no conflict can exist in us. Fear produces conflict and binds the world to conflict; forgiveness sets us free of it. Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict in us. What brings a sense of "conflict" is a projection...

The truth of JESUS—CHRIST is shared from the Manual for Teachers in it's Clarification of Terms #5. The Face of Christ is held out to see, instead of our "dreams of sin and guilt." We see instead our Reality. This vision begiins our Resurrection of God's Son—who is actually us! We have to see that we are the Son or Daughter of our Loving creator. We are ETERNAL LOVE in this Self...

SALVATION FROM FEAR depends on how we see our brother. If we maintain his "specialness" and see his personality traits, his body "looks," and the limitations and judgments we have placed on him, then we will not escape seeing our own shortcomings.  We have another way of looking at him—with the eyes of Christ. We can see his hoilness instead of his ego traits. This is a decisio...

I CHOOSE THE JOY OF GOD INSTEAD IF PAIN is Lesson #190 in the Workbook of ACIM. This is a sobering assessment of the cause of pain being our own negative thoughts. How do we shift our minds ? FIRST, we have to take responsibility that we have caused ourselves the pain. The thoughts we had prior to having the pain were illusions that resulted in pain. SECOND, we have to be willing to forgive oursel...

CHOOSE ONCE AGAIN the Self God Created us to be. There is no peace and joy greater than this homecoming of our true Self in us. The Holy Christ is born in us today. It is not a coersion or a decision made from guilt that allows us to accept the Christ Self in us, but rather from an awakening to the only Truth worth living by. We Choose Once Again the only choice we ever came here to make—the heave...

THE SAVIOR'S VISION is one of total and complete forgiveness. Wholeness is the realization there is only Innocence in the Self God Created, and we are all one in this Self. Our holy vision sees all things as pure. Christ's Vision is our inheritance. We can claim it by accepting complete forgiveness.

We RECOGNIZE THE SPIRIT as our Self, or we limit our identity to a body. These are our only alternatives. Why would we limit ourselves to merely a physical entity? This Section VI helps us to see beyond the body to our True Self in Spirit.

The SELF-CONCEPT we made up is not who we really are. The SELF God created is fully intact, even though we forgot this SELF. We can restore our awareness of the SELF God created when we stop projecting all "self-concepts."

In THE REAL ALTERNATIVE we see that we have a real decision to make in seeing there is no real escape from conflict in the choices of the ego's thought system. We tend to keep our problems. Making a Decision for the Holy Spirit is the only real alternative.

In this Section THE SELF-ACCUSED, it is to realize that all attack on our brother is really the hatred we have of ourself. All attack is self-attack. We never hate our brother for his sins, but for our own guilt and self-condemnation.

WALKING WITH CHRIST transcends the notion of "leaders and followers." When we "walk with the Christ" we are committing ourselves to complete forgiveness, of ourselves and others. We walk hand in hand with the Chrsit in this mission. There is no greater honor than to be the student. The "teacher" is just the best "student" of the truth. Christ is that perfect...

The SIMPLICITY OF SALVATION is in seeing the truth is that we are totally INNOCENT as God Created US, no matter what mistakes in life we may have made. GUILT is unfounded. We are the Holy Son and Dauther of God in this absolute Innocence. Only a "false self" could think the thoughts of separatoipn and guilt. This false self is non-existent in Truth. Only in illusions could we be deceived in thinki...

CHANGELESS REALITY is the fact that your are the Holy Son or Dsughter of God. This is your IDENTITY. Nowhere in your true Mind is there anything but Holiness. And the nature of Holiness is Peace and Joy. Why would we want to know anything but this? This Changeless Reality is always there, whether we are aware of it or not. Why not be aware of it, and embrace our true Peace and Joy?

THE NEW INTERPRETATION is to translate all thoughts of attack to ones of innocence and forgiveness. What if what we thought someone "did to us" never really occurred? The source of our upset was a "thought" we maintained that was not true, but neverthelesss attracted a unpleasant and painful experience to us. We are never a victim of our thoughts, especially when we take respoonsibility for them a...

THE JUSTIFICATION FOR FORGIVENESS  is merely to see that what we thought "occurred" that made us upset was not the real thing that made us upset, and the thing that made us upset was a thought that was not true anyway, therefore not really there.  FORGIVENESS helps us to let go of illusions. It does not "forgive" the Truth (which is your right to Peace and JOY), it forgives illusions of upset that...

THE ONLY PURPOSE of the real world is a state of mind in perfect forgiveness. Forgiveness is the only gift we give, and it is our only function as the "light of the world." This PODCAST makes it very clear.