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

We give and receive what we give. This is a Law. If we give anger and attack, we will receive that back to us. If we give forgiveness and release, we will be released. This is the Lesson we need to master the Forgiveness that A Course in Miracles is teaching. We recieve in the giving. We give what we have in our hearts. Are we giving Peace and Joy?

This is a Combination PODCAST of our "Messages From The Altar" #3 and today's Gifts of God Podcast on Lesson #123-4; "I thank my Father for His Gifts to me," and "Let me remember I am one with God." It is essentail to have awareness of our Divine Connection in everything we do. "God is in everything I see, because God is in my Mind." This is Lesson #30. If God is in our mind, and our mind involves everything we do, then we CAN see God in everything. This would be "remembering" we are "ONE WITH GOD." The language of these Lessons is un-ambiguous. It corners our mind into a Priority that is Divine. The imagery it uses is Beautiful--"a golden frame studded with diamonds in which we see ourself as the Christ, at one with all our brothers and sisters as our Self." What could be better? HUGS.

This Lesson, and this podcast for that matter, could change your Life completely, fully and forever. Do we embrace the practice of forgiveness? Forgiveness is the key to happiness, and the rejection of forgiveness maintains our negative memories and the misery that they produce in us. Forgiveness is our responsibility to rise above our negative past and neutralize these memories by seeing our part in the experience . It is also seeing that our lower "self," our ego, was the culprit of this encounter with pain and suffering, and the maintenance of those memories embedded in our subconscious mind. Can we save ourselves from mistakes of unloving thoughts? This Lesson can transform us.

The struggles of life are an illusion when we are in a state of Perfect Happiness. Can we allow the Truth of our sinlessness to come forth in our vibration? The mood we are in emits a vibration. What are we giving out? Fear will send out fear and get fear back. Sending out Peace and Joy will attract the same back to us. We forgive and undo any misperceptions we have about ourselves. The Truth of our Higher Self's Vision will correct all errors in our mind. Then when we give that vision to the world, we will receive the vibration of Joy we transmit back in abundance.

We can now REVIEW Lessons #91 through Lesson #110. This is REVIEW III. Today's Lessons, reviewed two at a time, are "Miracles are seen in the Light," and "Miracles are seen in the Light, and Light and Strength are one." Remember, the "Light" has the function of total forgiveness. "Forgiveness is my function as the Light of the world." (Lesson #62) Let's use these Thoughts during the day and remember every 30 minutes to say the Lessons.

Can we rise into our true IDENTITY? This Lesson puts us in the vibration of Who we are as God Created us. We are the Son of God. This is our Highest Reality. This is the "Truth that sets us free." Can we receive and embody this Truth? "I AM AS GOD CREATED ME." There are no problems in SELF-IDENTITY. I am not separated from my Source. I am the Son or Daughter of the Divine FATHER/MOTHER. I am as God created me. I am Love not fear. I am Life not death. I am Health, not sickness. I am Innocence, not guilt. My Self as God created me is my Reality. My ego is an illusion that does not exist in this Holy Reality—that is the ONLY Reality. I am ONLY that REALITY.

Giving and Receiving are ONE when I use the Light of Divine Vision and Understanding. The light the body's eyes "see" is not the clarity we need to transcend all opposites. There is a LIGHT of GOD's MIND, that is also our real mind, filled with only the thoughts we think with God. In this mind there are not "opposites" or "conflict." We receive what we give, because to give we acknowledge we are in full possession of what we give. We have in full awareness what we give, which increases what we have. We transcend "opposites" and all conflict. I give PEACE and I receive it more. Then I can "rest in God." independent of external war and strife. We offer Peace and Joy and we receive more of those and then we REST in this Divine Peace and Joy.

Are we listening to Peace and Joy, or to our mild irritations? Can we meet Life with a truly open heart and mind that is empty? Sondra & Markus explore the process of "listening to the truth" which amounts to deeper levels of peace and joy in our life. Let us be clear, “What does it mean to give and receive?"

We claim God's Gifts to us because they are already given. Yet, we have to be willing to give them away to know we have them. "To have, give all to all," it says in the TEXT. And now we are on the verge of knowing we have all the Peace and Joy God holds out for us. Are we not glad to know this? Our little "problems" cannot stand up before the Infinite Peace and Joy that is our Divine Inheritance. Even in the face of a "problem," this mighty statement of a fact can dissolve it.