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

Joining our will with the will of the Christ will also connect us with our Creator. We stand in this True Self of our Being. Christ is in us and The Creator is in the Christ. These are simple directions to connect our will one with the Creator. The Divine Will is Undivided in Truth. We would like to be part of this Truth. It is our vigilance to only have this connection in our awareness. AMEN.

We have free will to cause ourselves to suffer. We have free will to deny the Will of our Father. We have free will to deny the Christ in us. We have free will no matter what—even if it is a form of "unwillingness" to accept our Divine Will. Our true Self is only in a state of Peace and Joy. The alternative "will" of the ego has rejected Peace and Joy. Then we vacillate and make up some kind of false happiness that does not last, and can turn too easily into its "opposite,” sorrow. Is this the instability we want? How can we be lonely if God is always with us? How dare we we say we have "problems" when the Holy Spirit and the Christ can solve all of our problems for us? Can we LET GO of our “solutions?" In this letting go is our Freedom.

All Encounters with anyone is an opportunity for us to discover the Happiness within ourselves. We need our Brothers and Sisters to see the Happiness within them, and thus within ourselves. The GLORY and POWER of God is what can awaken all of us to Pure Joy. Power produces Joy. Glory results in Happiness. Will we focus on the positive aspects of what we are "seeing?" We can only "encounter" our Self. Who is that Self we choose to see? The Holy Encounter is up to us. POWER and GLORY belong to God, and so do you and your brother. This is the true ENCOUNTER that brings us "Perfect Happiness." The GLORY of our Father is our own in these Holy Encounters.

The Holy Spirit leads us to more peace and freedom. It is unconditional, natural, and joyous. This teaching is more of an awakening to what we already have, than an "additive" process that fulfills a "lack." You have no lack. You have the Will God gave you, which gives you everything. Perfect Happiness is the Will of our Creator for us, and our true will is one and the same. We go toward more Freedom. The ego leads us away from this Freedom. We stop listening to the ego when we give attention to our intrinsic Freedom, Joy, and Clarity that will only increase in our awareness when we give these our attention. Look beyond everything that would hold us back. Our Freedom is in God's Will alone.

We have a "Course" of action in life, and this course we could also call "the curriculum." There are two—the ego's curriculum, or the Holy Spirit's Curriculum. The first leads us to "war" and inner conflict; the second leads us to peace. Peace is a condition necessary for us to enter into the Kingdom of Knowledge. We need the Atonement to erase all of our past wrong thinking and bad choices that resulted in "war," and the opponent of our inner peace. There are no real "opponents" with whom we do battle. We have to give up the whole notion there is something or someone to "oppose." The Real Curriculum will lead us to Joy. War is the opposite of Joy. Which curriculum will we choose for our "course" of living? It's an obvious decision.

We are in a state of Grace and simply are not aware of it. Our Mind is the determiner of our awareness, and if it is directed by the ego, whose nature is problems, pain, suffering, unhappiness, etc., then we will be aware of that. If our Mind is directed by the Holy Spirit, then JOY and Peace and GRACE will ensue. Our awareness depends on what part of our Mind is in charge. We have free will to think whatever we want, but until we align our Thoughts with God's Thoughts, our results will be questionable. God's Peace and Joy are mine. This is a fact. Grace begins to dawn in us whne we are focused only on that.

The Guidance of the Holy Spirit will always lead us to more JOY. Not following this guidance will give us judgments, anger, fear, guilt and PAIN! Which do we want? We would not consciously choose pain, but our unconscious unwillingness may direct us not to follow any guidance. Unwilling to listen to another way, we think we already know the way. This Podcast gives us another alternative to this question of inner guidance. The result of following and aligning with the Will of our Creator, puts us directly in awareness of our Self-Identity. This would have to produce Joy, and that is God's Will for us. We are JOY, so being who we really are is our only true awareness.

Extending the Kingdom is to be is a state of intense JOY, and being willing to give away that JOY. The fullness of the Kingdom is important for our awareness of it. We extend to all, and this extension is our co-creation with God. What do we have to give? This is what we give and this is the extension of the Kingdom. And also, this is the Source of our JOY. When we are giving of ourselves to all other selves, our function is being fulfilled, and this can only produce JOY in us. As we give, we receive. The more we receive, the more JOY we invoke in ourselves. What could be better? HUGS.

The Unbelievable Belief is the ego's thought system to perpetuate conflict. It projects the conflicts outward onto others to avoid seeing it maintains conflict inside of you. Therefore it maintains your belief in it, which is unbelievable. We are the ones giving the ego energy, and trying to "get rid of conflicts" by projecting them outward. We stay busy in order to avoid seeing our inner turmoil. We cannot perpetuate illusions in others without believing them ourselves. The ego is the "unbelievable belief." The past is over and it relies on the past mistakes to give itself reasons for belief. We have a decision to make—accept the Atonement for ourselves and let go of our allegiance to the ego. The ego is unbelievable, and we forgive ourselves for believing in the unbelievable.

Wholeness of the Kingdom means you are complete and perfect all of the time. Partial commitment to Wholeness is meaningless. A little lack is no commitment at all. The Laws of Wholeness rise above all lack, and all partial attempts to accept the Kingdom are released. We accept the Kingdom wholly and completely now. We leave behind all illusions, or any mistakes. "Teach no one that he is what you would not want to be." Teach only Wholeness and Love, for that is what you are. We can be "hurt" by nothing but our thoughts. When we think only with the Thoughts of God, we would remember we are honorable and joyful. And all who we meet merit this self-same perfection.