Public Service Announcement
Emm-Admin, Jane-Admin, Bonnie, Dreamy, my calendar software, someone somewhere I miscalculated the starting date of our Around the Text in 100 Days journey such that it would finish on December 24th. My chagrin is the bad news. The good news is everyone gets a reprieve!
If you missed the monastery bus, if you had hopped off the monastery bus, if you were lagging behind… you can now easily catch up! (I might be talking about myself here.)
So today is only day two! Pages 3-9 in the text.
All the whispers for days three and four have been saved and will re-emerge as the posts re-emerge.
Posted
on Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 4:51 pm.
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September 17th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Just for this, I want a REAL PICTURE of you playing with your cat Dreamy this time for proof punishment terms have been met. This post needs a picture anyway. Unless of course, you were planning on adding a picture of a child praying at bedside for forgiveness? That might work too.
The Correction Committee
P.S. Sorry, just can’t let this slide…
September 17th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Ha, ha, ha, Thank you Debbi for your humor but, I think it is a good idea to have a picture for this post.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
As Prefect of Discipline of the Correction Committee, I add my vote!
:-)
(There actually was a nun in my high school who held that position. Ew. She looked it too.)
September 17th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Aww. Contrite puppy noted. That was FAST! Jamie is lurking….
September 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
that’s excellent! i am in the midst of hosting gary & cindy renard right now, so not really available to JOIN in until next week. Thrilled for the reprive.
Thanks MONK ee !! & Holy Spirit !
September 17th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Time is tricky…like nailing jello to a wall…maybe? Uh, oh, what am I going to do the next two days during lunch hour?…correction…one day…see how tricky it is?
September 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I’m on track with the reading so I’m going off track with the comments. Just want to say how much I am enjoying the adventures of Brother Urtext on the twitter page; humor is a great companion as long as I believe that I’m still here. Still smiling. Bev
September 17th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Aw, now you’ve gone & done it with the puppy picture, Monk… The Correction Committee is bawling their eyes out, trying to figure out why THEY now feel like the guilty ones!!
{wink, wink}
Job well done, I’d say!!
September 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Hi Jewel – If you get a moment, please tell Gary and Cindy that their fans on ACIMmonk DOT com say hello and congratulations on their recent nuptials!! If you’re feeling especially informal, you might ask Gary how he pulled off marrying the most beautiful woman in the world!
Love, Debbi
September 18th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Yahoo! I am ahead then! :D
September 18th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Me too.. feel like a star student here. Time for revision while the bus catches up:-)
September 18th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Another perfectionist here (Libra) … terribly embarassed (like the puppy), but I have a suggestion for one final tweak to the 100 days system.
Would it be possible for the daily reading assignments not to end in the middle of a section; i.e., could the assignments be complete sections — as close to seven pages as possible, but flexible? Example:
Day 1 – Chapter 1, Sections I – III
Day 2 – Chapter 1, Sections IV – VII
Day 3 – Chapter 2, Sections I – III
Day 4 – Chapter 2, Sections IV – V
Day 5 – Chapter 2, Sections VI – VIII
This would also solve the problem of which editions monklings are using.
September 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Gail, another Libra and perfectionist ( in the process of reforming, but still -) this would feel GREAT to me too. Having this other green edition, I am never really sure where you are. So good to loose that confusion, and know i am on the same page.
And thank you for carrying that embarassment so i can be the innocent one now.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:39 am
I love that baby puppy.
The darling thing.
A snarling, hungry dog?
I think not!
September 19th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Keep the chagrin coming (this thread might turn into a confessional). When I edited the sidebar last week, adding the Monastery Admin section for everyone’s ‘convenience’, I accidentally posted Emm-Admins OLD email (emm-admin@acimmonk.com) which no longer exists. :) I have updated the sidebar with the correct email address. So, to sum:
emm-admin@acimmonk.com < -- this is NOT Emm's email, and will bounce back with an error message.
monastery AT acimmonk DOT com < -- this IS Emm's email and will be for the long-term.
Someone post another cute dog picture quick!
September 19th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Hi All
A couple of people have asked about the page numbers in the second and third editions of the course. I’ve checked it against a soft and hard cover version of the 2nd edition and they are identical, so if you have either edition, you should be on the same page (literally!) as everyone else.
We divided the text up into blocks of six or seven by page number in order to finish in 100 days and not have significantly more or less to read on any one day. However, there is no strict reading requirement! :) If you want to read more or less on any one day that’s fine. It also means that the selection for that day might end in the middle of a sentence (in fact, i’d imagine that will mostly be the case). So please feel free to read on, if only to complete the sentence!
The idea was that when commenting, people would quote the particular sentence or part that appealed to them. You could also quote the sentence using the FACIM numbering: i.e. T-18.VIII.1:2-3. Even if the page numbers are different, everyone should be close enough to find it quickly.
Dividing up the text by section is a good idea, and we did consider it, but it would be very time consuming, as all the 100 posts would have to be planned out in advance and then changed on the blog each day.
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions as we go through. I hope this is okay with everyone.
Love, Jane
September 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Jane, then I would need from you exactly where in chapter two you start tomorrow, the 20th, and then I can count from there. Please just give me the section and the sentence. Thank you.
September 19th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Hi Nina
Tomorrow will be chapter two, pages 24-30. So: T-2.IV.3:13 to T-2.VI.8:7.
I hope i’ve got the numbering system right there…. someone tell me if they spot a mistake. :)
Love, Jane
September 19th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
does that mean it is i n the section “Healing as a release from fear?” I don’t knwo what 3:13 means – as there are no 13 paragraphs in the “healing”-section. .. jyst give me the sentence where we start,Jane, and the sentence where we stop that day, and i will be Ok all the way to christmas!
September 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Hi Nina
Sorry – didn’t mean to cause further confusion! From chapter 2, section 4, para 3, sentence 13: ‘If one denies this unfortunate aspect of the mind’s power, one is also denying the power itself.’ to chapter 2, section 6, paragraph 8, sentence 7: ‘As long as you recognise only the need for the remedy, you will remain fearful.’
Of course you can read as much or as little as you like, but that’s the ‘official’ monastery homework!
Love, Jane
September 20th, 2009 at 2:28 am
The Correction Committee has granted our Dear Monk reprieve (no 2nd puppy picture necessary for snafu # 3-gazillion) in honor of the Blessed Nuptials of our Dearest Heather and Hall-Monitor-Nick. Nobody really wants to exact punishment of any kind on such a wondrous occasion!!! Read: They’ve had too much to drink to hold their head up, let alone a disciplinary hearing.
(Besides, I think they learned their lesson on the last one. They should have NEVER messed with someone so proficient at choosing pictures.)
It is our first Monastery Wedding and it calls for nothing but celebration of our strengths AND foibles!! And fun!!
A toast to you, Mr. Monk – For your honesty, your love, your hard work on this website (and your damn pictures) with which we are constantly enthralled! Here! Here! We love you!
The Cor8i4kcin Commoytii
(Sorry, cat on the keyboard)
September 20th, 2009 at 5:08 am
September 20th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Just look at that. They get away with everything, and get fame and pics at Cloisterboards too. How unfair is life.
*
After refreshing my laughingmuscles, thanks dear Debbi,
I release completely my belief that I am stupid and do not understand the annotation. It is clear now that the green ACIM-edition I have is beyond any annotation-possibility for me. MAYBE that is why I am not enlightened yet. Could be. So, I will just let go of all efforts, and if i share a sentence or two that is not in the dayly read, it is only because my ACIM is insisting on being special and individual and European, like me me me, and you’ll just have to bear it.
Akk ja (Oh vey is mir)
AND I’ll post a cat too. So there.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I agree Nina, using Course annotations with a book that’s set up quite differently, is a bit like giving a cat a bath. Neither of you ends up very clean, but both of you come out rather soaked.
I Love You,
Deb
September 21st, 2009 at 7:30 am
-yesterday I was reading a wonderful book by C.S Lewis – the author of the Narnia-chronicles – called A Grief Observed. Lewis has just lost his beloved Wife Joy to cancer, after only a marriage of 4 years – and she was, I think, his first love, and he was 57 when he met her…what a script! He is a Christian, but one that is much more like a Course student ( read his “The Great Divorce”!)
A Grief Observed is to me as much Lewis’ grief at God – where is God in all of this, is this the kind of God he wants to believe in – and then, after thoroughly grieving and rageing he writes this paragraph at the middle of the book:
“Delicious drinks are wasted on really ravenous thirst.Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? “Them as asks” ( at any rate “asks too importunately”) don’t get. Perhaps can’t.
And so, perhaps, with God. I have gradually been coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing in all your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can’t give it; you are like the drowning man who can’t be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.”
I hope this is what some monkling really needs to hear today. Like this one, posting. I recognize that I have read this in the Course too – but this kind of language makes it so much easier for me to really GET it.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:35 am
I also saw this video today, on The holographic Universe. If you are interested, google The holographic universe, and it is the first video that comes up.
They hold that all are illusions- but that now Science has found out that there is nothing outside of us, it is all within our BRAIN.