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

What happens when we CALL UPON GOD'S NAME? What exactly is it? There are words that have different vibrations and frequnecies. A swear word has a very low frequency, immersed in anger and sarcasm. A word describing God would have a lofty vibration, an very high frequency.

We are asked to call upon God's Name and clean our minds with this Mantra. Mantra Breathing does this as well.

This recitation of God's Name is well grounded in the background of Spiritual Practice. It is the basis for Meditation and Inner Peace of Mind. Activations and reactions are silenced.

We enter a state of Grace by calling upon God's Name.

THE POWER OF DECISION is what determines our reality. We are able to see that our thoughts are our desisions. We rule our mind, and the thoughts in this mind.

We can think with the ego's thoughts or the Holy Spirit's Thoughts. This is the one important decision we will make.

We choose our own "hell" or our Heaven. We even consent to "death." If we are stressed, it is because we have decided for this stress.

We decide for Peace and Joy. We make our will one with God's Will Who wants prefect happiness for us.

THE FACE OF CHRIST is all encompassing. We correct ourselves and look upon our "sinlessness.” If we attach "guilt" to our “errors," we end up with the belief in "sin." 

When true correction is our first love, and this true correction does not see our "errors" as real, it therefore sees our innocence always intact. A mistake may very well have been made, but the correction still sees the face of Christ in the midst of the "error." 

Innocence is the ultimate ending of the "upset" usually involved when a "conflict of interest" arises. 

HOLINESS is our natural state of being. DO we have contact with it? This is our essential awareness of who we are.

We can use this Lesson in the moment. It can transform any upsetting situation into one of Peace and acceptance.

It can be applied to any problem.

It works. My holiness can not only bless, but can also "solve problems."

NO ONE CAN FAIL when we seek to reach the TRUTH of the HEAVEN STATE of BEING.

Truth is here NOW. Not in the future, or in some fantasy of an idyllic past. Heaven is here. It exists in the infinite NOW that is always here. TODAY WE FIND IT.

We forgive everyone, and everything we sought to give us happiness that did not. We seek a different world today.

We cannot fail when we leave behind the "known world" that did not give us happiness. God will give us the Truth, and the door to the Light of Heaven now.

The angels greet us in our search, now that we have been given the Door to Truth and Heaven. Our "single purpose" offers this to us. AMEN.

We are in a WAR AGAINST OURSELVES when we think "sin" is real. The mistakes we made do not make us "guilty." We are innocent regardless of any mistakes we made. 

Only Innocence is real, and "sin" does not exist. Sinlessness is our real Strength. Guilt and Attack, the aspects of “sin,” make us weak. 

The world of duality does not really exist even thought we are caught in its illusion. Our imagined "enemies" are our "saviours." We we see a sparkling beauty coming at us in a blessing. 

Then we have no "war" with ourselves in this world of Heaven on earth that begins in our true Mind. 

IF WE DEFEND OURSELVES WE ARE ATTACKED. It is a mind that feels threat that makes defenses. Then it projects the fears it harbors onto the body. 

It is the Mind that has made defenses that are unnecessary. 

The Mind needs healing with a release from fear, guilt, anger, etc. The "self" that needs defenses is not real. The Self God created does not indulge in fear. It is safe and immortal in its certainty. 

The body is a neutral thing that need no defense. The Mind that directs the body is what needs healing. 

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 competition and being "cheated" by a situation that may not look the way we want it.

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 Forgiveness shined upon our very brothers with whom we held so many grievances, They have come, and we are Blessd in the Holiness of their Gifts of God.

"The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love."

We receive gifts of Atonement when we are ready to give it.

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 living in this dimension? This Lession is the answer.