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

In this last Lesson in Review #1 we look clearly at the Love of God which is our strength, and the means by which we liberate ourselves from our "self we made up" in the illusion of separation from our Source. These miracles restore us to our natural, holy state. We recognize our innocence, and the reflection of God's Love in us on earth. We are sustained by this Love of God.

God is with us now, and we can have a direct relationship with our Creator. All relationships are holy encounters. Making connection with the Love of God is our responsibility. Will we embrace this gift of Christ's Vision? This is the Strength held out for us—a forgiven world of Oneness that is our inheritance. The gift of vision is seeing our eternal connection that we have with each other.

Is our Holiness something we are in touch with on a moment to moment basis? If not, why not? Our Holiness is always present, but somehow we are absent, not in touch with it. These Lessons are designed to get us in touch with our Holiness. It is in "everything we see." It "blesses the world." It is a strength by which we can "do anything." Can we use these Lessons to make contact with our Holiness?

We are responsible for our thoughts, which in turn produce our results in life. This responsibility is the opposite of "victim consciousness." One of the major actions of A Course in Miracles is to give us back the sovereignty of our own mind. And we can align our mind with the Mind of God which is the Creator of Joy and Happiness, Heaven on Earth, the peace of Divine Reality.

Are we determined to see things differently? Can we change our minds? Are we willing to question our own conclusions about life and death? These Lessons get us to request a vision above all the other sights and sounds we have made up that produce an "inevitable end" to this life we made up. "God is in everything I see." God is by nature IMMORTAL and ALL PERVASIVE. Can we tap into a vision of that Reality? These Lessons give us the chance to do just that.

In this review we look at thoughts, which are never "neutral," to see from where they come— do they arise from the ego's thought system of pain and suffering, or from the Holy Spirit's Thought System of Peace and Joy? We can escape pain and suffering by giving up our thoughts that make them up. We are never a "victim" of how we think, and how we think is up to us. We have free will over our minds. We choose what we will think, and therefore what we see and experience.

What is the meaningless world that our meaningless thoughts are showing us? What is the real world as seen through my real thoughts? Are we looking through our Source of Love? Can we leave behind the world we see through the thought system of the ego? Can we stop projecting our "separated thoughts" that are not connected to Love? Our ego has a substitute for Love that is not real. It has no meaning because it can revert to chaos and make fear, anger, conflict and guilt 'real." The choice is ours to make, which thought system we will use—one of Love or one of fear, guilt or anger?

In This Review I, the 2nd set of Lessons look at our thoughts that are meaningless, that make up our personal version of hell, defined as "private thoughts" that we "think" apart from our Creator. When we think in this way, we are "not really thinking at all." God's Thoughts would produce only Peace and Joy. This "absolute way" of looking at things is often what ACIM gives us. Are we willing to see things differently and drop our ego's thought ststem that is full of "problems?"

We begin to Review the first 50 lessons. Nothing we see means anything because we are seeing with thoughts that we are "thinking" apart from Love, from God, from our Spiritual Connection. The first lessons are making us aware of how disconnected we are from our Source energy, and how we have made up a "thought system" to defend ourself from the fear that this separation engenders in us.

What sustains us? Money? Social Media? Medical Systems? Supply Chain Economics? Our smarts and cleverness? Do we connect with the LOVE OF GOD which is is subject of this Lesson #50. "I am sustained by the Love of God," it says. Do we connect with this Universal Energy? Do we have the Love of God in the forefront of our attentions? This Lesson #50 is attempting to change our minds and our focus. How far into the Love of God are we willing to go? This is the QUESTION!