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

The Vigilance is only needed when we "listen" to the ego's voice of separation and conflict. As long as we are subject to its voice, we need vigilance "against" this self deception. Yet, once we realize that the ego's voice speaks only the "untrue," then we can Decide for the Power of Love which does not listen to the ego's rantings. We are no longer "fooled" by the ego's thought system. With FREE WILL we undo the error of the ego's mistakes, that needed the free will to come about in the first place. LOVE created like itself, which is whole and beyond all errors. When we step into this level of Peace, we are liberated.

HEALING AND THE CHANGELESS MIND; ALTAR TALK

We heal as we recognize who we are as God created us. It is a decision we initiate. The Holy Spirit helps us to remember who we really are, and forget the "false self" we made (called the "ego"). Our "little willingness" to heal is all the Holy Spirit needs to use our decision to translate our Hell into Heaven, to "heal" our sickness into "health." Our effort is in initiation. There are Divine Forces then that allow the healing to be completed. Our "decision for correction" has to be there to initiate the process of healing. Healing is remembering our Wholeness in God, and forgetting the divisions of separation made up by the ego. We forget all of our "mistakes" to accept the correction of the Atonement.

The Kingdom is always here, and we have to be aware of it. It is our Awareness in our connection to the Power of the Kingdom. We have to be willing to "turn on the light" to see the light. We accept the fact we already are in the Kingdom. In fact, earlier, Jesus says, "You ARE the Kingdom." This is a conflict free state of Mind in which everyone is included. We teach who we think we are. Are we using our awareness of Who we are as God Created us—in the Kingdom—to connect with our Divine Joy? God created us to be in the Kingdom of the Sonship. Amen.

In the Kingdom of Heaven and Creation there is nothing to "learn." The LAW of the Kingdom is UNITY. What you extend, you are. There is one Thought System that is wholly consistent. We know only Love in the Kingdom. We know only Peace and Joy. And in the ego's world of dichotomy, we decide to be Vigilant only for God and His Kingdom. "Teach only Love, for that is what you are," is the Lesson we extend as Teachers of God. We translate the ego's thought into the Truth. Then, there is only the extension of Truth. Only the Will of God is True. This "Kingdom" is wholly joyous and wholly consistent. This is the LAW of the Kingdom.

The final stage in our Awakening to the knowledge of Who we are as God created us is said to be "God's last step." We see when we are close to this step that it has already been taken. What was "first" was also "last" in God's Kingdom. God already created us WHOLE and COMPLETE, PERFECT in our BEING. When we are ready to see this Perfection, when we have forgiven ourselves and everyone else completely, enough of the "deceptions of the mind" have been undone, the Light in us is seen. The "last step" is taken. We see we already are as God Created us. And we are totally cared for in that perception of ourselves. We are in "danger" nowhere in the world.

The Holy Spirit sorts out the false from the Truth in our mind. He rejects that which is not wholly joyous. And he transmutes everything into this forgiven world of total Inner Peace and Joy. Our Holy Purpose is to know this Kingdom of God within us. It is already there, but we have to "clean out" that which would contradict this Kingdom. Our job is to empty ourselves and approach this Divine Light within us that has been placed there by God when we were created. To have, we give. To have Peace we must be willing to share and teach Peace. And to be in the Kingdom, we have to arrive empty and let go of everything not in alignment with the wholly Joyous.

The Second Lesson of the Holy Spirit is "To have peace, teach peace to learn it." This further supports the law that what we give away we already have, and increase what we have. Give peace in order to teach and learn it. Peace is increased by giving it away. This is your peace that is already within yourself. When we decide to teach peace, we side with the thought system of the Holy Spirit. There is no conflict in this decision. We are consistent in what we teach—peace and joy. We only GAIN by GIVING. Nothing real can be increased except by sharing that. When we share we give away our most valuable asset, inner peace. By giving it away we increase it in ourselves.

We share with all our Brothers and Sisters the Essence of our Self-Identity. We can only share this, and have full appreciation for them. We are aligned with the Holy Spirit when we embrace this Wholeness. Not only are we asked to restore our communication with GOD, but also with our Brothers. Sharing is Communication, and this becomes Communion. Communion is an exchange of Love in which we trust our Brothers, who are one with us. "To have, give all to all."

The HOLY SPIRIT opens up the Communication channel between our Self and God. God does not make any of our "errors" real, therefore, He does not try to "teach us" our Perfection, but rather give us the Holy Spirit to WAKE US UP to the Perfection we already have. "Do only that" means accept this Perfection as our reality, and open our communication of Joy with the Creator Who created us to be Happy. Let us open these channels of communication today. Peace and Joy are ours, and we can drop our "unwillingness" to accept these Gifts of God.