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

Lesson #273 of ACIM gives us an opportunity for "undisturbed tranquility." Are we ready for this? Can we apply the Peace of God to all aspects of our life? When we encounter a "disturbance," can we bring our minds back to their original state of non-reaction? These are the questions the Lesson and Sondra & Markus Ray pose in this podcast. 

"The Peace of God is shining in me now." This is lesson #188. It offers us a beautiful clarity about the Light that dwells in us, placed there by our Creator. When we are in touch with this Source, we automatically are in touch with this Light, which automatically puts us in a state of Peace and Joy. This is the nature of our Identity—I AM SPIRIT. We bring this Peace with us, and we have a responsibility to make direct contact with it now. PEACE is HERE AND NOW—without conditions. Heaven is here now. Will we make contact with it? 

SONDRA & MARKUS discuss the Lessons #256 and #257—"God is the goal I have today," and "Let me remember what my purpose is." There is a deep listening in which one hears the Voice for God. This may not be "words" as we know them. It is spoken in nature, and in the deep, still, and silent place in our hearts and minds. 

GOD'S WILL for us is ONLY HAPPINESS. Sondra and Markus discuss Lesson #235: "God in His mercy wills that I be saved." Saved from what? All the problems we have projected from a "self we made up." We all made a self up that has suffered. We can trade this self in for our Capital Self that is free of all the problems of separation and suffering we have made. MERCY is needed. We have to be open to receive it. Now we can. 

Sondra & Markus explore Lesson #192, "I have a function God would have me fill." What would this function God has given us be? Forgiveness is discussed as our "function here." Translation of the illusory world into a "forgiven world" is our function. Forgiveness is the means for us to fulfill our function here on earth. 

SONDRA & MARKUS focus on "Finding the Present." This is an important concept in ACIM, to let the past go. The Holy instant is a vision in the present. This is a vision of the "forgiven world" in the people who we meet in our present. We stay in the past through our unwillingness to give it up. This dialogue will help you to let go of the past and live in the Present. 

SONDRA & MARKUS begin with Part 2 in the Workbook of ACIM. It starts with Silence of our thought. "Peace to my mind, let all my thoughts be still." (Lesson #221) This section of the Course introduces us to "Who we are as God created us." It also introduces us to our "sinlessness" and the love of Christ's corrective Energy. We can be grateful that now we are guided into more and more the Presence of the Christ. AMEN.  

Can we acknowledge the Christ Who makes clear the way to be free of judgments and problems? What is the source of our gratitude? We are definitely liberated from our ego's world that is one of constant comparisons, devoid of real peace and joy. LOVE is the way we walk in gratitude. Let us come to this inner realization of our union with the Holy Spirit of stillness and silence, that shines in everything. 

Sondra and Markus discuss the Future and all the fears that usually accompany it in our minds. This Lesson can liberate us from fear and worry. Can we give more attention to the Divine Care of God than to our "fears of the future?" We can train our mind to be free of "fear thoughts" and immerse our mind with miracles? The more we think about the Lesson, the more Energy we receive from this Divine Thought: "I place the future in the Hands of God." We train the mind to have the habit of Trust instead of the fear about the future? 

Markus and Sondra further discuss this important Miracle. What is pain? Why do we maintain it? What can we do to get out of it? Explore this lessson with them and see if you can "step out" of the mindset of pain. You can. And with their help it becomes clear how to do it.