Miracles transcend all limitations and all "hierarchies of order" and "degrees of difficulties" that the lower levels of our perception can contact. First we have to clean up our "perceptions" first and see through loving perceptions, joyful perceptions, grateful perceptions. Then we can see everthing NOT THAT as a "call for love." This switch in our perceptions begin to prepare us for an awareness of the Limitlessness of Spiritual Awareness.
The Joy of God is all around us. Can we let it in? This is a discussion on feeling the Love of God all the time.
The Characteristics of God's Teachers are varied, yet there are some essential characteristics that all Teachers of God have for a bsis of their teaching. Trust in Divine Forces is one of these, even if this Trust is not based on the body's senses. There is a Power in us but not of us. This Power keeps all things safe. This Power helps us to make contact with the Gifts of God. Trust is essential in the sorting out our world in which we may need to relinquish the "valueless", without a sense of "sacrifice."
Can we be still and listen to the truth? What would the truth tell us? What would we receive from the Truth that we would then give? The "mighty voice of Truth" is certainty with a power that bestows an absolute Peace on us. The Truth would be Heaven on Earth. We can find the Source of Life today that is immortal. This is our Source. This is our Truth. "Love which created me is what I am." This is Life Immortal. "Heaven is the decision we must make." We can listen to this truth and go past fear and abide in the Truth of peace, love and joy.
WILL WE CHOOSE FOR THE CHRIST IN US? We always choose between the ego's weakness and the Strength of God in us, which the Christ bestows on us. We have to make a decision for Heaven, which is to claim our Self-Identity in the Christ Mind. Deciding for Heaven and choosing to be the Christ in our True Identity is the only choice we are ever going to make that has ultimate meaning. Can we Choose Once Again? This is our clarity given to us as students of A Course in Miracles.
Can we look within and see our Innocence as God created us? The TRUTH of Who we are as God created us would be Love and Fearlessness. Are we willing to look within, past all the racous fear, guilt and anger that are causeless? In present tiome we can decide for Heaven. This would put us in another awareness of a Reality of the Christ Self. Are we willing to do this? To be truly responsible, we must.
Do we receive the Peace that Christ bestows on us? Do we want that "above all else?" Markus & Sondra Ray discuss Lessons #305-#308. The Peace of the Christ is bestowed on us. This is His Gift to us. Do we value this above all else? Do we put ourselves in the Thought Sysyem of the Holy Spirit, or do we vascillate into the "opposing wishes" of the ego? The Stillness of the Peace of God would be Christ's vision of a totally forgiven world. Would we enter into this state of mind unequicocally? This possibilityy is held out for us to enter.
MARKUS RAY & SONDRA RAY discuss Lessons from #301-304 in the Section of the Workbook called "The Second Coming." Will God Himself remove the tears of our pain and suffering? Will we be willing to change our minds and go a different direction? We can look upon the Light that is God's Will for us to see, but we have to forgive ourselves for the darkened vision of fear, anger and guilt that gave us the "tears" in the first place.
Can we give this Holy Instant our attention for practice.? This is our responsibility. We can practice this Holy Instant to be in more connection with our Divine Source. Can we be led? Sondra and Markus ask us this question in their commentary on this important section in ACIM on the HOLY INSTANT.
There is an instant now in which Heaven abides, and is God's Will for us to inhabit. A Course in Miracles calls this The Holy Instant. Markus Ray and Sondra Ray introduce us to that Holy Instant in this Podcast.
The MInd has an ability to heal, in fact healing must include the mind because that is where the "sickness" begins. We look at the "cause" of the illness which is some judgment that perpetuates the "separation." We belief the Body and personality is our self. We do not condemn and we have the power of forgiveness on our side.
Sondra & Markus discuss section seven in the Teacher's Manual: Should Healing Be Repeated. The question is to rise above the doubt and concern that the healing has taken place. Doubt and concern are a lack of trust that the Holy Spirit's Power can really make a diffenernce in solving our problems, especially "health problems." To doubt that healing has taken place is a lack of trust, and an attack on the whole situation.
When you give the forgiveness of Christ's Vision, you get clear that you have this Holiness, and it increases in your awareness the more you give it away. We receive the boon of forgiveness, which is certainty of our unconditional innocence, when we give this innocence to others, regardless of the mistakes they have made or are making now. We aspire to realize Christ's Vision instead of the hellish world of guilt and conflict we made up for ourselves.
Markus & Sondra Ray continue with the threme of "What is a problem?" and "How do we solve it?" Lesson #80 says, "Let me recognize my problems have been solved." The solution to all of our "problems" has been given us in our Divine Connection. Can we accept it? Can we let go of projecting "problems?" This is the question these Lessons put before us.
What is a PROBLEM? Why do we have them? What is our MAIN PROBLEM? This Dialogue between Markus and Sondra and the Lesson #79 in ACIM will give us a new perspective of solving our problem.
How can we see past what is not really there, but what we "think" is there? This Lesson #99 asks us to "forgive" and be "saved from" what is not there.
There is a Will of our Creator of WHAT IS. Then there is the ego's world of illusions "that could never be." But now illusion and truth are "equal" now.
Non-truths are lies. Lies are not True. What is not true does not exist. The problem is we think the illusiions are real. We need forgiveness of these illusions. Forgiveness and salvation are the same.
This Lesson #99 helps us to see that our Truth as God created us in God's Will is our only Reality. Everything else is not the truth and does not exist. We need Salvation from something that is not even there!
The Presence of the Christ is here for us. How do we make contact with this important part of our own consciousness? This Lesson #157 is a kind of Invocation to the Christ to enter into our consciousness and Join us there.
He has already been present; but we have been absent. His words of A Course in Miracles are for us to use, but we must make the committment to use them.
Today we enter into His Presence and receive the Gifts of God. He wants us to have peace and eternal Life. Pure Joy is His will for us in all of our thoughts, words, deeds and actions.
We make a secret "vow" to forget the fact that it is the mind that rules the body. The body does not "think." But is does store memory of what the mind "thinks."
Will it respond to guilt, fear, or anger? All sickness that the body appears to act out with pain or suffering begins with the sickness in the mind. Thoughts are "off," but the mind took a vow to transfer "responsibility" over to the body.
This is a mistake the miracle needs to correct. Real healing begins and ends in the mind. The body is simply a "print out" of this process of inner correction.
The "secret vows" to keep this miracle hidden are ending now. We can see that God's Will for us is perfect happiness, and this corrects our mind from all notions of sin, guilt, anger and fear. We are free to allow ourselves to "Be as God created us" now. This sets us in the fields of heaven in which our minds are free to be at peace. And our body can now be released as well. AMEN
Why do we feel unsafe? What would make us feel safe? We have an opportunity to call upon the miracles to undo our fear.
We are in danger nowhere in the world. Do we believe that? Are we fearful in the feelings of danger and threat? We can believe we will be calm in the face of adversity, but usually we are activated and feeling unsafe and fearful.
God keeps us safe. We are among the ministers of God, and the Energy of Creation protects us in our Mission of Divine Service.
"Your peace goes with me Father, it sheds its light on everyone I meet." God will send us the people we are to save. We recognize our Self in them, and give them peace and miracles as we have been given them to extend to others.
In the giving we realize the receiving. We give the miracle of Divine Safety, and receive it too. AMEN.
Are we prepared for Grace? What is the prerequisite to receive Grace? We first have to come to an inner silence in which we have let go of the ego's thought system.
"Grace is the acceptance of the Love of God in world of seeming hate and fear."
The goal of the Course is to give us miracles that undo our blocks to receiving the Grace. Grace, like Love, is from our Source. Miracles make our MInds clear enough to recive the Grace.
We clear our minds enough of attack thoughts, grievances, anger, fear, guilt, judgments, etc. in order to receive and live by Grace.