MIRACLES FOR YOU Sondra Ray & Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

The link to Truth is our awareness of our True Identity as the Christ. We have this awareness in us, but we have not been giving attention to it. Our True Identity is One with GOD and also One with all our brothers and sisters. We are Joined in the Christ. When I choose to spend my day in "perfect peace" I am choosing to end the separation in my mind and unite with the Mind of God and the Christ. We are all children of God, joing with God and each other, we can connect with the heavenly state of being within us. It is the Holy Spirit's function to help us see our true Self. Heaven is here now, and we can enter into it. Heaven is a state of mind within us that we can awaken into. The Sons and Daughters of God can be aware of perfect peace because it is our natural inheritance to claim.

We dedicate our life, and the solving of any problem in our life, to Truth. "Truth will coreect all erros in my mind." The correction of our errors in thoughts, words, deeds, and actions in our life is done through the Holy Spirit's undaunted trust in us and our Truth. Faith is needed for this kind of total healing. But the challenge is that the solution lives in the unknown regions of our mind, transcendent of the "thoughts of the brain." We have a Mind that is not affected or governend by the brain. It is not a limited entity, nor can it be held back in any way from full expression of of Truth whne we do not stand in the way of its revelation with our doubts, fears and limitation. We step outside of our limited self image. "Our Self is ruler of the Universe," Lesson #253 says. And we have simply acknowledeged that we are ready to be our True Self. And the infinite about of love and energy comes flowing us to us from On High. All of the time. The Voice for God is always speaking within us. Are we listening to it? Can we honestly say, “Let every voice but God's be still in me?” This would be a breakthrough to hear only that!

There is an open-mindedness that has an unlimited nature that truly surrounds us with infinite possibilities. We can have peace and joy envelop us totally in all aspects of our life? We connect with the “glory” of the universal dimension in which we always inhabit. Can we jump “levels” and go into the glory of a heavenly state of being? We have Free Will to see whatever we choose to see. Are we looking toward the Unlimited Glory of our existence here in our earthly life? Are we with the “faith” that Truth will correct any errors in our minds that take us away from this glory? Even the “errors” we might not be aware we are making? The forgiveness of the Higher Self is complete and perfect. Everything meant to come into balance will be balanced by the Truth. Unknown to us in its Absolute sense, Truth has the capacity to smooth the road, straighten the crookedness, make gentle the curves, and make clear the path of our journey through this Life. So, let us not see ourselves as limited. We have all the Resources we need to create our Heaven on Earth, right now.  

"Forgiveness end all suffering and loss.” First, do we see that we are suffering and maintaining a sense of loss? We may have cleared up a lot of this suffering in our life, and feel the natural abundance of the Universe that wants to give us more than we need. But what are the remnants of this sense of "lack" still lingering in our psyche, still affecting the fear in our everyday life, literally causing ourselves to suffer? Forgiveness undoes all of this "suffering and loss," the Lesson says. Do we trust that it can? And do we perceive forgiveness exactly as it is? Are we able to transcend the body-identification, which is the home of "suffering and loss," and rise into our Spiritual-Identification, in which there is no "suffering and loss"... none! This is the action of forgiveness necessary to end all forms of suffering. Are we willing to see things differently, and reconsider our very Self-Identity? This is what this Lesson asks us to do.

The only hell and misery we experience is brought to us through a decision. Hell comes to us through a decision to be unconscious in life, and allow the influx of thoughts and situations that give us misery and problems. There is hell or Heaven, and this is the one decision we have to make. "Heaven is the decision I must make.” This is a decision we make with our whole being. We are tempted to “stay in hell,” using our past as a reference point. Will we feed our past traumas or let them go down to dust? When we decide for Heaven, we are in danger no more, nowhere in the world. Markus describes his real life encounter with this Lesson #244: “I am in danger nowhere in the world.” It was a God-Sent Thought he needed to think in a potentially “dangerous” situation of meeting bears on the heights of Mount Wheeler in New Mexico. A Course in Miracles is here for us in our time of need. We are safe in its embrace. The Thoughts of God are offered to us. Will we not decide for Heaven as a result of them?

We cannot judge. Do we justify our anger in any situation that does not give us what we want? It is a temptation to feel "hurt" by another person's actions with which we do not agree. We could feel "thrown off," like somethings is "taken away" from us. Then we go into a judgment about the person or a situation. Today's Lesson #243 is "Today I will judge nothing that occurs.” Can we rise to this state of being in which we always see what is happening in front of us as "the perfect thing to happen." Everything that happens—a car crash, a diagnosis, a person leaving us, an incident that felt hurtful—are all happening for our greater good! We do not judge it but release ourselves from the attachment to our anger, which is "never justified." We stay in Peace. This is the important decision we must make. It is the quality of Heave, and it is our responsibility to be there, in that inner state of Reality that is ours to claim and practice.

We have made up a world from false perception. It eventually ends in death. It is a false world we made up. The Christ is here to help us escape from the mess we made through forgiveness. There is no other way. We can remove with the help of the Holy Spirit our "false perception" of the world. The true perception of the world can come in a Holy Instant... when we are willing to forgive everyone and everything, and give our Life to God to guide today. (Lesson #233). "Sorrows pass away and all pain is gone." This would be the Heavenly State of Being. Do we want to go there more that anything else? This is our Holy Instant and Heaven is awaiting us here in the now. Can we completely LET GO of our past... completely? This is the requirement for us to enter into this real world, not the one I made of my own false perceptions. We give our day to the Christ to lead me to a more perfect happiness.

What do we fear? Why do we fear? We have "meaningless thought" we are told early on in the Workbook of ACIM. This "meaningless thought" is showing us a "meaningless world," which engenders fear. Fear involves conflict between an illusion we are pursuing and an illusion of not achieving that pursuit. There is some perfect happiness that is here now for us to accept, and this requires no achievement on our part to have it. It is our inheritance now. There is no conflict in this Reality of Peace. There is no illusion in the Reality of God's Love. This is our true Identity—"Love, which created me, is what I am." Love has no fear or conflict. We are present in this awareness of our Divine Identity. Thought is stopped. We think with the Mind of God, which holds only Thoughts of Love. Can we do this? This is the miracle in action.

Have you ever spent your day immersed in the Glory of your Creator? What would your day look like being aware of your Glory? There is great Beauty and Silence in this Glory. Perfect happiness is held out for us to claim. "The glory of my Father is my own." Can we "own" this glory as already ours? How would we be changed? The Beauty of existence is everywhere, even in the seeming clutter that accumulates around us as the debris of our incomplete actions. We let in the Glory of God's perfect happiness surround us and envelop us in our day, in our comings and goings. Notice how you feel differently while focusing on your Glory. Let us embrace our own majesty. Let us acknowledge our Self as God created us. Let us have Faith that we can achieve perfect happiness and "enter the miracle zone" of God's Will for us—the Divine Mother's Grace surrounds us in our every thought, word, deed and action in this glorious state of Divine Awareness.

The world is a mighty big place. Right now in present time this represents 8.31 Billion People. Salvation of all those folks depends on me. What do we mean by "salvation?" The liberation from all negativity and suffering would be salvation. The release of "guilt" and the "embrace " of our innocence could be "salvation." This lesson says we are responsible for this—for the whole world of 8.31 billion people. What would this require on our part? Maybe we have evolved up the ladder of our own holiness, and we have risen up on the scale of our enlightenment. How do we see and treat people who have not evolved as high? They are evolving too. And can we release everyone from our judgments? People evolve at their own rate, and they have free will to be where they are. We are responsible NOT to judge anyone, but we are responsible to accept everyone where they are on the scale of enlightenment. We are liberated in our embrace of the wholeness of this world of "being" a human being. All 8.31 Billion of us.

I have a Mind. This is my "command center" of my life. I rule this Mind, having full dominion over it. I think the thoughts I choose, and fill my mind with these thoughts. And my Life is governed by these thoughts. They determine my words I use, the deeds I perform, and the actions I take. I rule this Mind of mine, and I can decide to connect it with the Mind of my Creator, or not. The Mind of my Creator would only lead me to more Love, Peace and Joy. If I am going in a direction other than that, running into problems, experiencing pain and suffering, then I am "ruling my mind" without the Higher Guidance of my Creator. I can restore my Mind to listening to the Holy Spirit, Who can lead me out of my problems into a Heavenly State of Being, free of all "problems." But I must make this conversion with my own free will. It is an action I take to allow my Mind to be guided by a Higher Force of Love.

There is a Life Force that is merciful and conducive to helping us solve every "problem" that comes across our path in life. This Life Force is benevolent to our needs, and gladly meets them. This could be a solution to any problem we are having. The Lesson says, "God in His/Her mercy, wills that I be saved [from this problem]." We do not need to now "how" to solve the problem. Our job is to invoke the Holy Spirit's help, and give that Life Force the faith that it can give the solution. Then we have to be willing to let go of our "needs" that made the problem up in the first place. We have to drop our own negative thoughts that are attached to the problem. We let go of our "case." We may need to look at our "fear, guilt, or anger" that made this problem up in the first place. We do an assessment of our negative thoughts and forgive them. We let go. We are open to a solution that is not of our own making. We accept the Mercy of God that saves us from all "problems." We can rejoice in this heavenly state that is being given us. 

Can we accept that we are the Sons and Daughters of God? Are we accepting the grandeur of our Being? We are timeless Beings Who are perfect already in the Reality of NOW. We awaken from the dream in which we forgot our true Identity. We desire to know who we really are as God created us. We are the Sons and Daughters of a Holy God the Father/Mother/Child as ONE. This is the real trinity that we never left. We have always been our True Self, we had merely forgotten it. We have misplaced our True Self, which was always there. Today we are awakened to our True Self as we seek and find the Peace of God. We are paying attention to our True Self. This is the right use of our Mind—to restore our awareness of our holiness and Divine Nature in Truth. Amen.

Lesson #233 is "I GIVE MY LIFE TO GOD TO GUIDE TODAY." Can we do that? Mostly we think we are the main managers of our life, and the "solvers of our problems." Do we ever rely on the Holy Spirit to manage our life? This is what this Lesson is getting us to see. This would require Faith on our part. Could this be the MAIN PROBLEM? We do not possess the Faith that could solve all of our problems spiritually. We are in a crisis of Faith. We do not have to "know” what the conditions of the solution are. There is no problem in any situation the Holy Spirit cannot solve. This is the joining of the problem of "separation,” with the solution—giving our life to the Holy Spirit to guide and protect us.

Can we remember the present? Can we erase the painful memories of the past? Can we let go of all memories of fear, guilt and anger? MEMORY is a skill we can remember NOW. In the present, God is. Innocence is in the present. We are absolved of all past mistakes. We can remember God in this present instant, in all His glory. Time is transcended. We let go of the past hurts, all of the accumulation of "hurts" from the past. Can we let go? Can we drop the memories of past hurts? Use our memories to recall only Loving Thoughts that are true. Let everything else go. "Be in my Mind, my Father, through the day." This is a beautiful request. God is available to us, all of the time in the present, in every minute.

"Today would I seek and find the peace of God." We have to be willing to make a change, and do something differently. The old patterns of behavior kept us stuck in "non-peace." In order to have something different, in this case peace, we have to change our behaviors, obviously. Can we move in the direction of peace, and be willing to change? Can we accept the peace, which is something very different than what we have grown accustomed to? We are being asked to take an action. Are we willing?

Love which created me is what I am. We do not too often Identify ourselves directly with the unconditional Force of Love in the Universe. It's somehow too big for us. But what if we could for a instant see that Love as our one and only Source Energy? We would have a lot more Self-Esteem. We would probably float into NIrvana beyond our wildest dreams. The best we seem to be able to muster is a kind of contriband of our soul's more superficial desires. Or we survive in the patterns set for ourselves. What is this Absolute version of Love that is our true Identity? Let's ponder this version of ourself today.

Today's Podcast is on Lesson #227: THIS IS MY HOLY INSTANT OF RELEASE.What are we releasing? The Holy Instant releases us from the illusions of ourself. We have fear, guilt, and anger that taint our awareness of our True Self. The Holy Instant is a suspension of our misperceptions long enough to see our True Self.  Our real Self is invulnerable to attack. All attack in which we engaged in the past had no effects on our real Self or the real Self of others. Can we put all memories of feeling weak and attacked aside? Our true Mind is strong, because it relies on the Strength of God working through us to make us aware of our God Created Self. We are strong, not weak. We are undivided and whole, so we see any attack is not necessary and has no real effects. This is my Holy Instant of release. The self we thought we made up is released. And we are whole and complete in the safety of our True Being. Amen.

"My home awaits me. I will hasten there." This is today's Lesson #226, on this 226th day of this year. When we "look within," do we observe there is a Force that is benevolent to our needs, and that there is no situation to which Miracles do not apply. Therefore, our "results" are our teachers. The "learning" the Holy Spirit has for us is observable in the results we are getting in life. The Holy Spirit is invisible, but we can see the results of His/Her attention and influence. By their fruits are they known. We can observe the fruits that manifest in our life and give thanks for the help we received to manifest our good results. And we can forgive and let go of the results that do not bring us good health and pure joy. Our "Home of Heaven" is our inheritance. And...we can "hasten there" with the power of our own decision to not go anywhere else.

Love is shared. We love God through loving our Brothers and Sisters. In order to receive God's love requires we are willing to give love. Giving is the proof that we have it. I give to receive and to be aware I have received. We receive the love through giving it. We are not people who run off to the Himalayas and meditate in a cave, but we are very engaged with people. Our mission involves humanity. The rest of the world is not in a state of Peace and Joy. Our job, our mission in life is to uplift humanity to another dimension of Divine Reality, one soul at a time. There are people we are meant to reach. They are already in our lives, most likely, to whom we can give our care, our insight, our complete acceptance and forgiveness. We can be still and "quietly do nothing" but invite in the Holy Spirit to set all things right. The Holy Spirit is the Power that does all the work.

God is our Father, and He loves all of His children, His Creations, with an unending, steady and benevolent Love. We can look toward the gift of Heaven that God gives to us to be our only Reality. Today, on the day of a solar eclipse, we ask to experience our True Identity as Sons and Daughters of God, God the Father and God the Divine Mother. God is Love, and His/Her Will for us is perfect happiness. God, being Love, is also happiness. We are all Sons and Daughters of a Divine Creator. And that Will of our Creator is only Joy for us. And we have miracles of forgiveness to undo anything that is not our True Identity. Today let this be the day we STOP pretending to be our "false self" (the ego) and BE AWARE of our True Self (the Love of God) whom God created happy and whole. Love, M & S

We have no LIFE except the one God gave us. We think that we made up a life, but this spark of Creation that we ARE, did not originate from us. It originated from a Power that is in us, but not of us. We were Created in the LOVING SPIRIT of the Cosmos, and we never left this SOURCE of Creation. This Lesson, #223, acknowledges this SOURCE, and also gets us looking in the right direction toward a Life Free of all problems and mistakes. "Let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes, for we who are you Holy Son are sinless." What a most powerful line in ACIM. Can we bring this into application? It is given to us today to apply and even to realize. Blessings to you. MARKUS & SONDRA

We start PART II of the Workbook of A Course in Miracles today. It is an Auspicious day! It is the beginning of God's step toward us. PART I of the Workbook dealt with the undoing of the "ego's thought system" of fear, guilt, anger, judgments, attack thoughts, grievances, — basically all the thoughts we think in "separation" from our Source of Love. PART II begins the "revelations" that God wants to give to us. We begin with a deeper meaning of FORGIVENESS ➞ "What you thought your brother did to you never occurred." This is Forgiveness at a whole new level. No more "undoing" of what did not occur, but the Vision that it is non-existent. What is not there needs no more "undoing." It is simply not "seen" anymore. This is the beginning of a Mind that "thinks only the Thoughts of God." Peace is the first gift. PEACE TO MY MIND (let all my [ego] thoughts be still). Wouldn't that be nice. We can finally, actually, really, "Rest in God." (Lesson #109)

"There is no Peace except the Peace of God." This is the last Lesson in Part I of the Workbook of ACIM. Think of the phrase, "Looking for Love in all the wrong places.” This Lesson implies we have been seeking peace but pursuing war. We have been saying we want Love but feeding the fires of conflict. Thought itself is a conflict Manufacturer—albeit in the name of "peace." There is no surrender to the Peace of God in a mind that thinks it "knows" what it is. We do not know what only God can Know unless we stop pursuing our notions of "what we think it is." War will end when we forgive ourselves for perpetuating war, and drop it. This unequivocal Lesson says peace does not exist outside the Mind of God. So let us today, with deep humility and grace, ask that our "pursuits" and "attempts" to establish "peace" come to and end, and that we can receive even a glimpse of this Truth, the real Peace of God. 

Can we connect with our True Identity that is not limited by our body in this dimension of physicality, and in the "memory bank" of our dualistic mind of "this versus that?" We have no limitations and edges of the finite version of ourselves. We keep ourself bound and limited by our own volition, by decisions we have made to put ourselves in the jailhouse of the body. The body is not inherently "good" or "bad," according to opinions we form about it. It is a "neutral thing," a "communication tool or device" that we use to communicate Truth, Love, Peace and Joy to our brothers and sisters. What can we use our mind to extend in this world that has forgotten its basis is Love? Love created me like itself, and God, being Love is also Happiness. Can we be Happy beyond belief. This is a Divine function of Being Spirit.

What if all injury was unreal? What if it was impossible to attack and be attacked? What if the fears we have are based on nothing in truth? This lesson, #198, says all "condemnation" (or attack) on my part also injures me. By attacking another, one cannot avoid feeling attacked himself. This reinforces the principle that what I put out I will receive back. Can we shift this whole perspective. The purpose of anything in our world that feels uncomfortable, including "attacks" from external causes, is to lead us to the practice of forgiveness. "I will forgive and see this differently; I will forgive and this will disappear." These are the statements we endeavor to bring into application as students of A Course in Miracles. In our mastery of true forgiveness, there is no attack or condemnation—either given out by us, or received by us from forces "outside ourself."

Can we receive the gifts we give in the moment, as we receive them simultaneously in the giving? "All that I give is given to myself." This is Lesson #126. The review Lesson today is #197, "It can be but my gratitude I earn." It means that we receive the gratitude of the gift at the moment we give it—not to be "paid back" with some "return on our investment" in the future. Nothing is "owed." Gratitude is earned in the moment—not in the future. There is a correction we can make easily when we acknowledge ourselves as the recipient of all the gifts we give. I earn the gratitude in the moment by my own pure giving. I expect "nothing back later." The Joy of Service is giving to another in the moment, and in the "giving" is the "gratitude." Can we heal our expectations and discontent that we are not being adequately "rewarded" for our giving? We RECEIVE the GRATITUDE through the GIVING in the PRESENT, right now! There in no future action of acknowledgement needed when the giving is pure. In the giving is our gratitude received instantly. Bole Baba Ki Jai!

We crucify ourselves with our "attack thoughts." First we have them toward ourselves, which are self-harming, then we "blame" the hurt on someone or something outside of ourselves. And if we can't find a particular "villian" to which we can blame our hurt, we blame God in the end. God is giving me this horrible situation. I must be guilty. I must be deserving of this "punishment." Guilt is an attack on ourselves, and this is the point of this lesson—it is but ourselves we crucify. We can just as easily forgive ourselves for whatever it is, and see our inherent innocence. We were mistaken, yes, but not guilty. The thread out of this labyrinth of our self-destructive tendency is forgiveness—total and unequivocal—of ourself first, and then of everyone and everything else. Forgiveness will heal us and dissolve all self-harm.

Do we walk the world feeling connected to every living thing? And then, do we see Life in every atom of creation throughtout the entire cosmos? The rocks are alive. A particle of dust is alive. What we generally consider an "inanimate thing" is alive with some Energy of having been created. Therefore, EVERYTHING is alive, and we are connected to it. What we do with one iota of a "thing" affects how we relate to the whole. Can we behave as though the Life in all things matters? Especially our brothers and sisters, our fellow humans. Love would connect us to them. And Gratitude and Love walk together. We can connect with Everything and Everyone if we want to. We simply need to see things differently. What is the advantage of this universal connection? We have the opportunity to end the separation and restore our awareness back to the Heavenly state of Pure Joy.

Who are we? We are either the "ego" that we made up, or we are the unlimited Being that God Created whole and complete. This is a fundamental question we must ask ourself to be aligned with A Course in Miracles. "I am the Holy Son of God Himself" (or Herself). To the ego in organized "Christianity" this would be the epitome of arrogance. ACIM would maintain that actually it is "arrogance" to deny our Identity as the Son (Daughter) of God Himself. We are familiar with this denial that casues us pain and suffering. The state of affairs requires a big shift in our perspective on our true Identity. If we deny our own Identity, we will go mad as we get sick, age, and die. This Lesson is the antidote for the "Denial of our true Identity." We posit the truth within our mind and whole being. "I am the holy Son of God Himself." This is a statement of a fact. Humble in its acceptance of the Simple Truth.

Could we accept the fact that we determine if we enter into a Heavenly state of mind or stay in a self imposed "hell" that we have made up for ourselves? This Lesson is a Declaration of Independence from the pain and suffering of our past experiences. We are talking about a state of Being that is outside the realm of "experience." This can rise above and transcend our past in this physical dimension. This dimesion we are seeking is beyond physicality. This is a realm outside of the physicality of the body. We direct our mind toward a dimension that is above the "battleground" of pain. Physical experience is not the "ultimate reality." Some Idea in the Mind of God, which is Love, Peace and Joy, is the Thought we need to choose and think. Then we can say, Heaven is the decision I must make and do make. We choose between illusions of the ego our the Truth of our Christ Self.

What is the impact on our being of true words? Do they affect us? Do they "get into our psyche?" Do they help us to "drop the old" that did not serve our highest Good? Today's Lesson #189 has the potential to liberate us from the memories of failed attempts we have made to make contact with Pure Joy and to maintain this constant state of our Divine Being. We do not know the way to God's Love, but we have called and He/She has answered us. Can we trust that God knows the way to us, but we do not know the way to Him/Her, and that is all OK?  We ave called and God, the Divine Father/Mother/Child as One is answering us now. Can we trust in that Love to come to us, irrespective of any efforts we might make to facilitate this contact?

Can we connect with our reality? This light of Creation is in us. Can we allow it to shine through us? We can give our personal lies credence, or we can look past this darkness toward the light. The peace of God, which emanates from this light, is "shining in us now" whether we acknowledge it or not. It is there, but we have been distracted in our vision of a darkened self of the ego. Forgiving ourself for this error is essential to restore our vision of the light again. The Peace of God is all encompassing, and it is more powerful than the mistakes we have made. Admitting the falseness of our perception begins to invoke the help of the Christ to restore our vision back to truth, back to a "forgiven world" in which we accept the inner correction given us through the Peace of God.

We bless the world by blessing ourselves. Sacrifice is over. It does not gain us, or anyone else, anything. “Giving is proof of having." And when we give something true, we gain in the giving. Giving will increase what we possess. Also, through what we give away, we increase the storehouse of goodness in ourselves. I bless myself by blessing the world, and vice versa. By our giving an idea away, we strengthen it. If we give our joy away, everyone benefits. It we give our anger away, everyone retracts and feels bad. “Protect all things of value by the act of giving them away." We give the Gifts of God away and therefore, we increase them in ourselves. The content is what we are giving away. The "form" may change, but the Love underneath the form is always a blessing to ourselves and to the world.

Do we really believe we can make a difference? Do we have certainty of our Holy Function here on earth? Do we want to be part of true strength, wisdom, and holiness that is our divine inheritance... or would we rather stay in our personal goals and doubts of our ego's predominance? This is a statement of my Divine Function. "Salvation of the world depends on me." This is true humility. We are given the directions to rise to meet our true function here on earth. It is our function to join our will with the Will of God, and to gladly bring the vibrations of Heaven to these earthly planes. This is a new and joyous responsibility. But we must first let go of our own "personal polite hell" in our self. Then we must ask, "Where would You have me go; What would you have me do; What would You have me say and to whom?"

There is an awareness of Peace that is Absolute, according to this Lesson. It rises above all other desires, so we have to let go of lesser goals and "wanting" that the Lesson calls "dreams." When we share this reality with others, it is increased in everyone, most of all ourselves. But are we willing to relinquish other goals that have not given us this total peace and satisfaction? We have made compromises, and yet more compromises to acquire things we think we really want, only to witness them falling short of satisfaction, and ending up in the ephemera of dreams. This Lesson gives us the one place that is Eternal and constant—The Peace of God. It is the first "Gift of God" —Peace. Do we want it above all else? Only you can answer that in yourself.

What is this "Name of God" to which we make a call, and invocation? We seek to know our true Self as God Created us to be. Self Identity is our main concern here in Life. This Name unites us in the Oneness of Reality, of our Self, of our Creator. It is beyound our thinking. It is the Emptiness of a non physical Reality. A true contact with the Spirit is held out today for us to realize. We call upon God's Name. What is the Gift, the Benefit from this call? Most people are not in touch with this Higer Reality. We live in a level of awareness that keeps us in a "survival of the body" mode. But this call to our True Identity is a conscious action today. Let's follow it through to the full realization of our Higher God Created Self.

Where is our real home? Obviously not in this world when we consider the eternity of a Higher Reality. Let's just say you live to be 100 Years in this lifetime, which is quite good for humans this day and age. What is that 100 Years compared to the 4 BIllion Years of the "life" of Planet Earth? And where were you before the Earth's creation? Is that your home? Perhaps even something more vast than chronological time is the "holder of our home?" We will ask this question of Love today. We can be still an instant and be led by the Child of our innocence. This podcast addresses this divine connection.

What does your Spiritual Practice Look like? Sondra and Markus give their simple 5-POINT PRAYER PROCESS. 1) Read something high and inspirational 2) Forgive everything 3) Express Gratitude 4) Petition for the Highest Things 5) Read a Lesson in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. They do this every morning before they start their "to do list." It "sets the frequency" of the whole day. Today they read from the Text of ACIM about the obstacles to Peace—the fear of God and our attraction to death. They end with the Review #VI in the Workbook. "I am not a body. I am free. for I am still as God created me." and also a review of the Lesson—"I trust my brothers who are one with me."

We are Spirit having an experience in this physical dimension. We manifested a "body" to be our vehicle in this expression of our presence in these dimensions. Our body is not our Self. Our Self Identity is transcendent of the Physical Dimension. My Self Identity is Spirit. Spirit manifests as Mind; Mind manifests a Body. Our Source is our Identity, and our Spirit is our Source. Our right Mindedness "identifies" with the Spirit. It looks toward its Source which is Love. The body is merely a "tool" in this realization and our expression. "I am not a body," means that we give up all illusions so we can use our bodies to serve the Mind which in trun serves the Spirit. We would love our brothers and sisters now, because we see their true Identity in them, that is our own.

I have the Gifts of God in my awareness whne I give them away. If I have God's Peace and Happiness, and i do not share these openly, I withold myself from the gratitude I would feel when I block the the flow of giving them. Or ... I may give sometimes these gifts, but retract them at other times, and thus fall short of having their constant joy and gratitude. We have to surrender, somehow, by dropping our thoughts and tendencies that keep us in low energy, and devoid of feeling the gratitude for all we have receieved. The Gifts Of God are constantly given to us; can we not constantly give them to our brothers and sisters--and to every atom of creation? This would bring us supreme delight. Then when we give this joy consistently, "It can be but my gratitude I earn."

Are we in touch with the Absolute? This would be a total suspension of the ego's thought system and seeing with the Absolute Love of the Christ. This elevated awareness is possible for us to awaken, but we have to put aside our attachment to thought (opinions.) We put aside all comparisons and judgments. Have we done that? Do we have Gratitude for every living thing? That would be every atom of creation. This is a doorway into our Awakening. "Love is the way we walk in gratitude." When our forgiveness is complete, then we will have total gratitude. The past is in us to forgive it, and other people's past that is manifesting in their situations. We can let forgiveness rest upon all of it. Then we can "walk in gratitude" and get closer to Love.

What if we could forgive our past completely? What if we could have no concerns whatsoever about our future? And what if we could heal any symptom in our body that is putting us in pain and imbalance? Then we would be totally in this Holy Instant, abiding in the lawns just before heaven's Gate, awaiting the final and certain step of God to bring us through the Door to Everything. This Podcast can make this clear and give you an Action to be in your Holy Instant. This is the Glorious Moment of NOW that offers us a taste of the Heavenly State of Being, that is God's Will for us. Perfect Happiness is our Divine Right. How long will we dilly dally in the hell we made up when our release is offered to us right now in this Holy Instant?

All things we do not like are Lessons God would have us learn in forgiveness. In any situation that causes us consternation, we need to apply forgiveness to it. We are never a victim of problems and undesirable consequences—rather, we bring these results upon ourselves. "I will forgive and see this differently. I will forgive and this will disappear." These are the directions this Lesson gives to us to transform any situation to peace. We are asked to "clean up" each hour with these statements before proceeding to the next hour, to anything that is upsetting. This is our daily work to do.

What is our function here on earth? Did you ever think about why you are here with the people you are here with? You have a function to forgive—and this will release you from all the bondage of problems, frictions, defeats, disappointments, and sorrows of the world that are acted out in your relationships. This lesson makes it clear that God did not leave us comfortless, and the means for restoring us to the awareness of our divine right to Heaven is given to us—this is forgiveness, which is the key to happiness. We have a function to return to the heavenly state that God created in which for us to live. Will we accept this function is the question, or remain in the hell we made up?

Who am I? Am I want I made of myself in this lifetime? Am I an eternal being created by an Eternal Life Force to be eternal as well? This Lesson, "I am the holy Son of God himself," is a statement of a fact. It is not a belief that we made up. It is a God created truth. Can we accept this truth about ourself? This is a leap in our awareness to our True Identity. I am this Christ in essence, yet I have made up a self in the world that must be totally undone and forgiven in order to make contact with my true Self. The world will hold us in the "jail" of the ego. This Lesson is the key to unlocking the door to my jail cell. But I must let go of the thoughts that made up my false self.

There is a Self God Created. We are that Self. But it is covered over by the "ego self" we have been conditioned to believe is us. This Lesson is designed to release us from the self we made up, and to accept the Self God created us to be. Are we willing to do this? Inherent in this decision of acceptance is also the realization of our own immortality. There is no death. This is a theme we have explored before. There is no death (Lesson #163). We are in essence the Christ as well as Jesus. Jesus is our Master Teacher Who leads us to this realization, but it is we who must accept this truth of who we are as God created us. Can we take this step into the realms of our salvation.

This is the fifth review in the workbook. GOD is but Love and therefore so am I. Love is our true Self. Fear is a symptom of the imagined separation of our ego. Will we identify with the Christ and be His eyes, His hands, His voice, and thus communicate Love to our brothers and sisters? We give the miracles of Love and overcome fear. Fear is a stranger in the Self of our Love. These Podcasts are a continuation of our review and will be for the next few days.

"God is but love, and therefore so am I." This is the statement which brackets the two "Thoughts of the Day " that we review for the next ten days in this FIFTH REVIEW of Lessons #151 through #170. This review asks us to be more attentive to the Conversation we have with our Creator. Do we have the space to listen? It is interesting how we distract ourselves into a lot of meaningless things that waste our time and distract us from our Divine Connection. When we connect with Love, we also connect with God's Perfect Happiness. This is our Self-Identity. So we are realizing our higher Self. We can be free of the ego whne we realize this statement: "God is but love, and therefore so am I." I am the God in me. This is a true statement that we can and must realize.

The ego has everything upside down. The ego thinks that attack is justified and "love" is our enemy. Fear is accepted as real, and our defenses are necessary to keep us safe. Love does not justify the defenses we make. Love is safe, and we never need to attack. The idol that we call "love" is merely fear and attack that is never justified. When we see the illusion of this justification then we can remove the cruelty from our own hearts. Love is never threatened, therefore never in need of defense. Can we love ourselves and our brothers as One? In this there would be no more attack and anger and cruelty.

The Grace accessible to us now is concerned with the work of inner correction, with miracles, with the acceptance and the dissemination of FORGIVENESS. We are dedicated to Forgiveness as the means to clear our minds and prepare the table of our "inner altar" to receive God's final step of Grace. The Grace is already with us, and it has accompanied us our whole life, even when we were not aware of it. Forgiveness brings miracles, and miracles bring our awareness closer to the Grace. And when this is strong enough, and complete enough, God will take the final step to complete the Grace given to us in Absolute terms.