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

Correction of an error is not accomplished by making the error "real." What is our reaction to error? In ourselves or in others? 

Heaping on guilt makes the error real. And this is a form of attack and anger, which is never justified. 

"Anger screeches, guilt is real," which keeps the error alive. 

Only the ego makes an error. The ego is a false self we made, and is an illusion. We are transcending the ego by seeing it has no real consequences. 

God's Love remains the only thing there is. From this place of equanimity is there no interpretation, no projection of a false judgment. All "sins" have been forgiven. 

"The sole responsibility of God's Teacher is to accept the Atonement for himself." 

TO THE ADVANCED TEACHER OF GOD, this question is superfluous. God will send the "ordained work of the day." And in this Divine Providence no plan is necessary.

There are some guidelines in the beginning—doing the Lessons in the Workbook is essential. Also, quiet time when you awaken for your day and just before going to sleep is important to give to God.

Bracket your day with some quiet time given to God.

A thought of Pure Joy is also essential.

We are encompassing all that God sends to us to be in the flow of Joy in the moment. Even "disruptions" can be seen as part of this Joy. Waking up in this state of Joy is the real Gift of God given to His Teachers.

The Prayer of the Heart transcends words. Healing is granted according to our request. When we ask for healing, it is a deep request from the heart, and our Creator already knows this deep request.

The Higher Prayer of Healing acknowledges that what is needed is already provided. God knows what is in our heart, and the needs of the Heart are already provided. This transcends the words that ask.

The Energy needed to grant the request of a healing experience is always available. The Energy that manifests a miracle or a shift in the Heart of the one who asks is not necessarily born of words.

Let us use words to increase our awareness of this Healing Energy of truth, peace and joy that are the conditions of the Blessing of Healing we receive.

SALVATION is the CURE. The Cure comes from our Holiness, of which we are aware when we have accepted the Atonement for ourself.

We have forgiven everyone and everything in our life. We have no grievances and no attack thoughts. We are in the "happy dream" of the forgiven world. This is the Real World in which forgiveness rests upon all things.

We are in the present Heaven of our Holy Mind, not in the sickness and illusion of our ego's thought system. We look within our Holy Mind for peace and joy. This is our cure and our inheritance.

Can we step out of the ego's thought system, which is sick? The mind can bring illusions to truth to be shined away. Are we willing to take this up this "cure" as our action?

Are we ready to heal our mind with this Salvation which can cure us? This is our responsibility to make this decision.

Does Jesus have a special place in healing?

What does it mean to call on Jesus for help in our healing? Are we being answered? Have we accepted the Atonement for ourself?

Does Jesus respond to our call?

This invocation of Jesus the Christ is a request for the Power of God to help us in our particular situation. We can remeber Jesus and thus remember God.

Jesus has promised He will be here for us. Are we asking in absolute certainty that He will answer our call?

A miracle is a Gift of God given to us as a blessing, usually applied to a situation in our life that asks for a shift, a "different outcome" that may be beyond our ability to "know how" to achieve it.

This is not magical, but it does invoke Higher Laws, a certain "order of things" that is consistent with these Higher Laws.

Heaven is our inheritance, and we can align with these Laws that produce Perfect Happiness in us. We align ourselves with principles and laws that assure us the Kingdom of God, the REAL WORLD of perfect happiness, is ours to claim.

Miracles are accessible when we are willing to give up the world of "pain and suffering" that we made up. We deserve release from that illusion of this painful world we projected.

Heaven is the decision we must make. This Will is our true Will that we join with our Creator, Whose only will for us is perfect happiness. AMEN.

SALVATION is total healing, total liberation from all problems in life. Complete freedom, salvation is a plan to release us from all forms of fear, guilt or anger, and to be saved from the confusion or pessimism that seems to grip our souls and keeps us tied to the troubles of the world.

God has a plan, and it will work. The ego has a plan, and it will not work. The rule of the ego is to seek a better state of being but make sure it never finds what it seeks. We look for the answer where it is not.

This Lesson asks us to surrender our question, our serach for guidance, over to our Creator's true guidance. We invoke this guidance in certainty. All things are possible to God. Salvation is God's plan for us. We simply need to ask for it, and not project our own separated "plan" that would not be so complete. Let us expect we will be shown.

The HOLY SPIRIT is the mediator between the Truth of Heaven and our dreams of hell. It iprovides the means for us to forgive and arrive at a perception of the world that has no fear, no attack, and no guilt.

One could say it is an Energy that helps us discover the Truth of Who we are as God created us. It is the Great Restorer of our awareness of our Identity in the Christ. This is a shared Identity—One that joins us with each other and with God HImself.

We are created perfect. That is the Truth. Any "imperfections" we made up are "illusions." We can stop projecting illusions, of course, when we accept our True Identity, and give up our false one.

We let forgiveness rest upon all things through the help of the Holy Spirit, whose main purpose is to liberate us, to heal us from the hell we made.

What is guiding us on this journey through Life? Have we ever felt lost, in need of a roadmap for direction? Do we have a Guide along this Way we are on, One Who assures us that we are making the right choices that lead us to more Peace and Joy (not more suffering)?

We walk the ways of Life, not death. We have a Guide in our Higher Self, yet we must "step back" and allow that guidance to come forth within us. We need this Guide to give us our essential directions.

A Course in Miracles is the Holy Spirits Gift to us that keeps us aligned with the Way to Truth and Peace and Joy. Will we go to the place in ourselves of Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service. Will we bring forth in us the Self Whom God knows and Whom we can know?

This is the one decision we can make and must make to discover our Certainty of Purpose in this Heavenly State of Being.

God's Voice Speaks to us. Are we listening? Are we connecting with this Divine Communication? What is the Will of God that I could be joining with in my highest aspiration?

God is trying to tell us something. There is an Energy of God's Love that sustains us in a state of perfect happiness. Contact with it requires we want that above and beyond other pursuits.

The Voice for God is speaking to us, and it is possible that we hear it and receive the blessings.