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

THE GIFTS OF GOD are tangibly intangible. They are states of being beyond thought forms that can be realized in actualizations of thought forms. It is important that we can corroborate the Gifts through their manifestations. Yet, we must trust that these states of being are already in us and can be invoked.  

Forgiveness is the key to happiness and offers us these gifts. When we completely forgive everyone we see, we do the due diligence of the work ACIM holds out for us to do. 

Letting go of grievances is the work we need to do in order to receive the Gifts of God. Then we can be THANKFUL for all the divine blessings we can receive. The scale is unlimited. 

GIVING UP ATTACK THOUGHTS is the action of Lesson # 23. Can we cease to perceive ourselves as "unfairly treated?" When we feel "victimized," we will justify our "attack thoughts" toward those whom we feel treated us unfairly.

This is a deception of the ego to perceive ourselves in a dangerous world of attack and counter attack.

We are changing our dream of war, conflict and attack thoughts into ones of a "happy dream" of a world of forgiveness, acceptance, and the atonement.

We recognize our "attack thoughts" and are willing to "let them go." God will replace the hell we made with the heaven of a "forgiven world," which is Christ's Vision.

We DECIDE TO FORGET our Divine Connection, but it is still there in blazing certainty when we are willing to restore our awareness of who we really are. 

God's Peace and Joy are mine, but I had chosen to forget them when I made fear, guilt and anger real. 

If we are not happy, then something is off. We decided to forget Pure Joy. Now is the time for us to remember our Self-Identity. This is free of all attack, fear, guilt, and negative emotions. This is the Self of Perfect Happiness. 

Let me remember I am ONE WITH GOD. All attack is off, because all attack is "self attack." When we attack ourself, we have chosen to "forget" who we really are, God's Daughter and Son. When we choose to remember, we can forgive ourself and restore our Divine Connection to our every day awareness. 

I AM SUSTAINED BY THE LOVE OF GOD. What is that? What is the LOVE OF GOD that sustains us? The LOVE OF GOD will transport us into a different state of mind. It will give us Perfect Happiness.

The LOVE OF GOD will protect us in all circumstances. Do we have a conscious contact with this incredible Energy of sustenance? Do we have this level of TRUST? 

Do we feel alone and abandoned? Without support? Void of this contact? THIS is the very time we must apply this LESSON #50. It is a Declaration of Independence. An auspicious LESSON indeed! 

GOD'S VOICE SPEAKS TO ME. Am I listening? What am I hearing?

Can we let go of the "chatter of thought" that distracts us? The Voice for God is speaking to us all through the day, but for the most part we are absent. We are distracted listening to the voice of the ego. 

This Lesson commits us clear out old stuff. There could be guilt we are holding towards the past. The past is over. It can only affect us if we allow it to. Forgiveness rests upon all things. Correction, or the Stillness of the Peace of God, is our goal. 

The purpose of seeing a mistake is to end it. Forgive yourself and move on.   

I AM NOT A VICTIM, ever. This means that all of my results are what I have asked for. Even the negative results. The thoughts, conscious and subconscious, attract demonstrable results in our "outer world."

There really is no difference. We can focus our forgiveness on the thoughts that gave us painful results that we did not want. We have full dominion over our minds which attract our physical results in our "outer world."

We are not the victim of the world we see becaseu we have "invented" this world. What kind of a world do we want? This we can have. We have lessons of forgiveness to clean up our mind and clean up our results.

These NOTES ON HEALING come from the Song of Prayer. It is not the "body" that is "sick." The thoughts of unforgiveness made up a body that could be "sick."

The stillness of the Peace of God has a mind that is still. It is not filled with desire and unresolved business. Unforgiveness can bring us back into a body, in the relationships in our world.

We can clear the mind of attack and fear and death. This is the purpose of Healing. The Dawn of immortality is in the Mind of the Son of God which is our Higher Self. The Higher Self can FORGIVE as His main function. This is daily work.

CAN I FORGET MY PAST? Can I forget my brother's past? The be in our holiness requires this state of mind, free of the past judgments of memory.

The Holy Spirit gives us this Lesson of our Holiness, which emanates our Happiness. How can we be in touch with our Holiness holding the grievances of the past?

We are as God created us. This is totally in the Present. The past is over. Our Holiness is in our Present Joy. Forgiveness is simply forgetting all past thoughts that do not bring us Joy. We can do this. God will help us.

I AM AS GOD CREATED ME. This Lesson, repeated three times in the Workbook, is a simple statement of the truth. Can we receive it in it's full force to transform our life into something of peace and joy?

This statement undoes all other projections of a "false self we made up." It removes our ego self long enough to see that it was never real.

We have to let go and let the Truth of who we are into our awareness. In everyday life we can make contact with this Self Identity. It is essential that we do so, and release all the false notions of a self that decays, withers and dies.

WHAT HAS VALUE? Can we stop giving value to what has no value? This is a loaded question to those of us who value the fleeting and the corruptible. 

We are taught to pursue the things of this world with a dogged passion. And when these things evade us, we put the burden of blame on ourselves. 

This Lesson gives us the criteria for a different choice that makes attainable what is already ours, given to us by our Creator, and in immortal continuity with the Gift. The Gifts of God are valuable. Nothing else of temporal value compares to them.