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

THE FUTURE IN THE HAND'S OF GOD would give us certainty. But we have to trust that God will only give us that which produces perfect happiness. 

If we thought God could give nothing other than love, then we would have no apprehension. But we have the fear of the future that we project onto God. 

This Lesson requires we TRUST in GOD and EXPECT GOOD THINGS to come from the very SOURCE of our BEING. 

SOLVING THE PROBLEM means recognizing that we have only one problem, and that is our "imagined separation" from our SOURCE. We cannot really be separated in truth, but somehow we got distracted from our Divine Connection, and in forgetting it, we indulged in fear that manufactured all kinds of a multitude of problems. 

We are attempting to clear up this "imagined separation" here and now. We CONNECT with our SOURCE in a real way, in this Holy Instant. We receive the answers we need to complete anything that is demanding our attention. Our one PROBLEM has been solved, so our "many problems" are solved as well. 

GIVING UP ATTACK THOUGHTS can help us to escape the world we made up of fear, vengeance, anger, and general lack of safety.

A dangerous world is one of attack thoughts. These project a hell on earth. We are responsible for that projection.

Peace is power, and we can see Peace instead of our world of threat and attack. But it is only through our process of letting go, "true forgiveness," that we can arrive at this Peace.

THERE IS NO WILL BUT GOD'S. Thank goodness perfect happiness, and perfect happiness only, is God's will for us. And this is all that has reality in truth. 

Are we aligned with it? And if not, why not? 

We can project all kinds of problems and be in the frequency of discontent. But the Peace of God is ours. We have to claim it and let go of anything in us that would contradict God's Will for us. The will of God is to live in a state free of all conflict. The will of God is to live in a state of perfect happiness and joy. PEACE is very joyous and energetic. Let’s claim it together. 

SPECIAL LOVE RELATIONSHIPS are an illusion of Love. Underneath them is lurking a SPECIAL HATE RELATIONSHIP.

This Lesson is for us to look upon the "specialness" we have fallen deceived by, and step out of the thought system of "specialness."

LOVE is not an illusion. Love tempered by hate is meaningless. Real Love has no opposite. Can we rise to be in this Absolute Relationship with Real Love? This would put us in the Heaven state of mind.

KNOWLEDGE, as part of CREATION, is BEYOND LEARNING. It is given, not learned. But learning has a role in Forgiveness, which prepares us to receive Knowledge. 

We learn to correct our perception through miracles. We thought a certain way that produced suffering. Now we think a different way that produces Joy, and we maintain this shift in perception. 

When our forgiveness rests upon all things and is complete, then Knowledge can dawn in us, placed there by our Creator. 

I SEE NOTHING AS IT IS NOW because the ego's thought system is based on the past, and I am using the ego's thought system.

To see in the Present I need to step outside of thought itself. In that silence I can be given a new vision, but I am responsible first to silence my thought.

Then the Holy Spirit's Thought System of miracles can be given me.

THE GRATITUDE WE EARN comes when forgiveness is practiced. We let go of our attack thoughts, grievances, fear, guilt, and anger in order to earn awarenesss of an absolute gratitude. This kind of gratitude is unaffected by external conditions.

LOVE HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES. Grievances are like a poison that kill us. If we knew this would we hold them?

The actions we need to take to let go of them are discussed in this Podcast.

USING THE BODY TO PROVE IMMORTALITY means that we use the Body only to communicate LIFE, not DEATH, and LOVE, not HATE. It has a mighty function of ENDLESS LIFE. 

We are at the place beyond the Crucifixion of using the body in the service of TRUTH, not the "lie of death.”  We are using the body to PROVE IMMORTALITY. 

No attack thoughts are expressed through the body's actions of communication.