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

Can we let in the Energy of standing one with the Christ? Can we remember the Lesson in all that we do and say? Is forgiveness our function as the Light of the world? This is our one purpose together with the Christ. Our ego is silenced in this holy acceptance. We are one with God just as the Christ is One with God. Can we accept our True Self? We have to give up our habit of thinking negative thoughts and indulging in unhappiness. If we are not feeling Joy, part of us is denying our Divine Connection. If God is in the Christ, and the Christ is in us, then God would have to be immersed in us. We accept the Atonement for ourselves and join with the Christ. We receive and give this complete forgiveness—this is our only purpose. This is our Clarity. This is our inner Joy!

Christ is but my true Self. We dedicate our life to miracles today. Can we rise to it? It's a lofty purpose. We lose our lower self to claim our Higher Self. Can we join with the Christ in our purpose in Life? This is a great focus that ACIM has brought us to. Can we accept it? It is actually arrogant to NOT accept this purpose. Fulfilling my function as the "light of the world" is to align my purpose to bless the world with miracles. Can we have the ears to hear this? Can we be this? We are clearly asked to rise into this Christ Consciousness all the time.

How many times a day are we judging something? This prevents us from seeing through Love. It will make me blind. The Lesson associates Love with Forgiveness. Forgiveness is the means to Love in this world. Is it possible for us to lay aside judgments? Judgment and Love are opposites. We cannot have both. If we are judging, we are excluding Love. If we are Loving, we have suspended all judgment. This is the decision we make today.

What am I? This is the question we ask ourselves when we come to completion of the Workbook of ACIM. We are told we are the Saviors of the World along with the Christ. How will we see our brothers? How will we see ourselves? Will we focus on the "self" we made up, or the "Self" God created? We have to transcend the self we made up. We have to rise above the level of the ego self and enter into the Holy Spirit's Self we all share. Can we see our brother's sinlessness, and therefore see it in ourselves? Or do we want to see our brother's errors? PEACE or PAIN. This is what we are deciding between based on the vision we choose to look upon.

What can we remember but God and the Self we really are? We can "incorporate” thisby taking in all of our brothers and sisters into this Self we remember. This is a Whole and connected system of God's Thought. We are glad to do this. God's eternal Love is God's Thought, and every human being is incorporated into the Eternal Love of our Father. This Effect of God is a miracle of inclusion. The ego's thought system has no real effect on our Self as God Created us. All of our drama has no effect on the God created Self.

We are given Grace to meet all the needs we think we have. We meet these needs with the gifts of God already given us. Can we receive and give freedom from all our perceived needs? I am freed from all my problems with the reception of miracles. We must suspend our judgments. These contribute to the "problems" we think we have. When we remove our judgments from what we are looking upon, we open up the possibilities for miracles.

We have to get in touch with the energy of Grace, not fear or anger. Can we be aware of a forcefield of grace that surrounds us? We fall into fear and anger in absence of being in touch with God surrounding us with HIs Grace. Heaven is the actual awareness of God's Energy of Grace surrounding us. This is our protection and blessing in every situation. We have to tune into this Grace so we have no cause of anger or for fear.

We judge and therefore attract pain, and then we get angry about this attraction. This whole dynamic keeps the miracle, the "end of pain," away from us. We use judgment and pain as forms of attack. Things unfold in ways that bring about perfection. In the atmosphere of judgment, anger is bound to surface. Things come to an end when we give up judgment. Then a Miracle can be bestowed on us. We can allow the Christ to look upon the situation and heal it.

This is the beginning of a new awareness. Are we enveloped by God's Love in our Mind? The power of attention renders this to us. Do we value God's Love above all else? This is the possible outcome of being a student of A Course in Miracles. We made a body as a distraction, and the aches and pains of physical existence would be keeping us from this full awareness. Let us forget all things except God's Love. Let us transcend the physical dimension for the spiritual dimension, and integrate even our physical dimension into the Peace and Joy of God. Amen.

We receive what we give. This is a LAW. We fear miracles because they are different than our "reality of problems." We need the Action of Forgiveness to invoke the miracles to help us undo the "hell" we made up. Forgiveness is the action of the miracles that can restore us to perfect happiness. Perfect Happiness is God's Will for us, but we have projected our misperceptions, our grievances, our attack thoughts, our judgments toward ourself and other that prevent us for realizing "Perfect Happiness." We can forgive and have the miracle that dissolves our "problems" which are not really here in God's Will for us.