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

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

We are again asked to let the Christ lead the way. Can we give our lives to this Guidance? Can we go beyond the words to another State of Spiritual Being? We need the help of the Holy Spirit. We are either "all in" or "not in at all." Do we want to come to inner silence and make contact with the Christ? With Babaji? With the Divine Mother? The Holy Spirit? This contact with the Holiness within us, as helped by the Holy Spirit and the Masters who give us the way, is our only desire above all else. The result is Pure Joy. We end the ego's rule and make contact with true Guidance from God which is Pure Happiness.

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

We make a decision to be led by the Christ or not. This lesson is bringing us to a deep connection with the Holy Spirit's guidance. This Source of true direction is within us. Can we listen to this inner voice for God? Can we actually "follow" and not think that we already know? Can we give our days, every instant to the Christ to guide us? "His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us." If it truly is the only way, and we see this truth, would it be difficult to give this holy instant to the Christ to lead us? Certainty is ours when we give this holy instant, and every holy instant, to the Holy Spirit to lead us. Amen.

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

We are asking the Holy Spirit—the Christ Consciousness—to lead us in our every action in life. We are asking for guidance here. We are completing the thoughts of the ego separation that have governed us for a long while. Now we are open to receive new directions that are from our Higher Source. Be us at peace today, knowing that the stillness of the Peace of God is ours. We can claim it now in the glory of having everything granted to us by our Creator.

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

This is the last Lesson of section 14 of PART II of the Workbook of ACIM—"What am I." We are the Son of God, joined with our brother, and joined together with our Creator. We cannot see our own holiness without seeing his. Joined together in this mutual respect, we bless the world in tandem. One more Lesson awaits us, (#361-5). We will be guided when we maintain our Divine Connection and practice awareness of the same. This Lesson #360 helps us do so.

God's answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.

Can we receive God's Answer? Are we able to let go of the ego's thought system? Peace is the result. Peace ends all suffering and loss. Forgiveness is the means to let go. Today can we accept God's Answer? Do we fully let go of all conflict? guilt? blame? attack? All pain is healed and all misery is replace with joy in God's Answer. Would we rather keep the ego's "answers?" Can we use God's Answer to undo our thoughts of conflict? The responsibility is ours to manifest this grace.

No call to God can be unheard nor left
Unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want.

This is a reassurance that God does hear our prayers and we can receive His answer immediately. Do we want it? Do we have fear that we will have to "sacrifice" something we are attached to? We can invoke the Source Energy to guide us and lead us in directions that are perfectly happy. We can decide for happiness, and all of our "calls to God" would have to be a request for this happiness—or a restoration through forgiveness of this happiness. In the "communion" with our Creator, all of our needs are met, and we feel good in our "happy day."

Truth answers every call we make to God,
Responding first with miracles, and then
Returning unto us to be itself.

This is our request: we ask for a miracle for the correction of our "problems" which are brought about by wrong thinking. Miracles are thoughts that correct our "wrong-mindedness." Truth is able to correct us. Then the problem is dissolved. The miracle is coming to correct something. We have to be open to make some form of inner correction. I must forgive totally in order to make space for the miracle to occur. I have to behold my brother as "sinless." I have to let go of all my judgments and grievances. Then return to peace, the conflict-free state of being.

MARKUS & SONDRA RAY give an introductory Lecture in Tallinn, Estonia, introducing people to A Course in Miracles. This lecture can inspire you to press on if you already are a student of ACIM; it can inspire you to begin its study if you have not heard of this Course. Translation is in Estonian by Kadri Maria Rinaldo. This lecture gives anyone a basic overview of the principles of A Course in Miracles to apply in their life.

Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

This Lesson #356 brings of mind to the Altar of Truth. God and Healing are synonymous. Sickness and guilt go together. The Healing is the end of "guilt," in other words, our full and complete forgiveness of ourselves and others is Healing. Can we accept the Atonement for ourselves? This is the Healing. This is our connection with our Divine Creator. I am as God created me. I am fully INNOCENT even when I have made a mistake. God does not condemn us for our mistake. We are calling the Holy Spirit to help us correct our subconscious minds, and conscious minds as well. We ask to receive the help. Even for the errors in our subconscious minds we do not even know we have made. AMEN.

What is needed for us "to accept God's Word?" To be so close to accept this Word is to be stepping into Peace and Joy forever. We need more than our meager attempts to accept this Word. We need the help of the Holy Spirit for this acceptance. We need His Grace to put us into this full truth of A Course in Miracles. We have to be open to receive the Grace. "Joy Forever" is held out to us. Can we stop projecting "plans that did not work?" Grace is here for us when we stop doing the things that do not work. Only God's Plan for Salvation will work. Let's accept that Plan with the Help of the Holy Spirit.  AMEN.