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

20. WHAT IS THE PEACE OF GOD?

It certainly is not "death." Death is no escape if you hate your life and want to "get out of here" and get "back to God." God is here too, in this physical dimension, so if you are not at peace now, you may not be in peace just because you drop your body. The "stillness of the Peace of God" is here now. We have to drop what we are thinking and make the contact with it here and now.

19. WHAT IS JUSTICE?

We are asked to bring our thoughts of "injustice" to the true "justice," the action of real forgiveness, to dissolve all our denials of Heaven in this dimension. Miracles are the actions of Justice. Justice corrects the errors in our mind that have judged the world wrongly—which have manifested sorrow and pain. The Holy Spirit corrects these errors in our thinking, restoring the mind to Peace and innocence; and this is real Justice. 

18. HOW IS CORRECTION MADE?

This is a question we all must answer for ourselves. The sole responsibility of the Teacher of God is the acceptance of the Atonement for himself / herself. And the Atonement is the correction of all our "wrong thinking." Correction is made without any guilt. Without anger. Without making the "error" real. We see the error as an illusion that we can overlook.

17. HOW DO GOD'S TEACHERS DEAL WITH MAGIC THOUGHTS?

Magic Thoughts are those which we think separated from our Source Awareness. They have a tinge of fear, guilt and anger embedded in them. Are we defending ourselves from a perceived attack? These would be magic thoughts. Can we let them go? We have to be the ones who step out of the imagined separation from our Source, and be in contact with our Divine Connection—to be in our mind all the time.

16. HOW SHOULD THE TEACHER OF GOD SPEND HIS DAY?

There is no set rule for how a Teacher of God will spend his day. But we are asked to treat every day as an opportunity to be Divinely guided, and apply this litmus test—is my day giving me PURE JOY? If it is not, then we must admit were were wrong, and we have made decisions by ourselves without a Divine Connection. Then we must "reboot" our minds and set all things right while listening to the guidance of our Source Energy.

15. IS EACH ONE TO BE JUDGED IN THE END?

"Indeed, yes! No one can escape God's Final Judgment. Who could flee forever from the truth?" What is the "truth," you may ask?

Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

14. HOW WILL THE WORLD END?

The "world" is our interpretation of all the physical stuff in the cosmos. The forgiveness of all this "stuff" means that we have no judgment, not grievances, no attack thoughts of condemnation upon any of it. We have forgiveen everyone and everything. We have PURE JOY permeating our being. And this is the TRUTH of our existence as God Created us to be. We have forgiven the world, our interpretations, and the "physical stuff itself" (our bodies). We imbue our Creation with the truth of Heaven Now.

WHAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE?

Giving up what is not real can hardly be a sacrifice. Giving up the non-joyous for the joyous is the only "sacrifice" we need to make. Above all else we want to see Heaven instead of Hell. We made the Hell and we can let it go. This is not a "sacrifice" but a compassionate act of aligning with the Truth, not with the "illusions."

HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD?

The answer is ONE. And we, who are committed to rising into this role in life, become part of that ONE when we accept the Atonement for ourselves. We rise above the body when it comes to seeing our true Identity in total Innocence in the Mind of God. Then we use our body to communicate this Innocence to others.

HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD?

The PEACE of GOD is always here. We are absent from it most of the time. It is up to us to give "peace a chance." This is the Peace of God that surpasses our understanding. This means we have to step outside of our normal channels of thought. The nature of thought is assessment and judgment, therefore it is always in a form of conflict. Do we value Peace above all else? When we do value it, we will have it.