Bonnie
A Course in Miracles Monk
Monastery of the Mists: My process and experiences as a monastic student of A Course in Miracles and Ken Wapnick
September 5th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
what lovely, lovely pictures my dear! the level of concentration that you show in the pic with you playing violin is totally rad.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Bonnie – seeing the gravatar-image in a biggr size…you seem so familiar to me, I seem to recognize you from deep within. What a great experience. From deep inside now comes ” I though I’d lost you.”
I haven’t.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Bonnie- just wonderful pictures! You playing is way cool! And your larger gravitar- it’s so nice to be able to see you.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:18 am
awwww, thanks guys! i am digging this abbey so much! it is cool to be able to see everyone, all the different personalities, and get to know more about each other. i keep hoping when i come to the page that even more people will submit photos and experiences to share.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Bonnie…
Just wonderful pics! When I look at your pictures, I hear music…I swear! It takes me to that place when I heard you play in Temecula. I think your playing is one of the “kindnesses” that Jesus is saving.
Hugs!
September 6th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
wow, laura, that is so sweet. thank you! i am not much of a talker, so music is a really nice way for me to connect with people. sometimes i can really feel jesus’ love with me when i play… a feeling i crave and then run away from…
September 13th, 2009 at 6:48 am
New images! did you paint reaching and stillness? soo much going on in reaching, I was astonished of the title – and in “stillness” I wondered what the nuances in difference is between “stillness” and “silence”. Love your images!
and you
September 13th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Bonnie: Thank you for all your pictures and your smiling, it is as if you are saying “welcome” to all the monks that arrive very thirsty to the Monastery. I love all your pictures, but the one you titled cracked impressed me a lot. That´s how I feel so many times. Ahh! we are waiting for your music in the classes. Love and hugs, Lisi
September 13th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
no, i don’t paint… i just wanted to put pictures up that move me, that i can relate to. i name them what they say to me, not necessarily what they are titled for real. you guys are so sweet. i put a violin clip on this week’s class… we’ll see. it may need some time to get that right. :)
September 14th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Lovely pics, Bonnie and thanks for all you do. You always seem to ask the question on my mind in class :-) and I giggle and laugh along with all of you. (and cry sometimes too.) You’re music is amazing too…heavenly.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I love the pictures you have chosen. (I’m a little embarrassed at how many times a day I come here to gaze.) This set along with a picture of you sends me to that quiet place in my mind where I know all is well. Your violin does that to me too, Thank you
September 15th, 2009 at 4:46 am
awwwww, :) wow, i am so touched. thank you, girls.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I like the poetry of chaos… it is bluish, which I like much much much more than other colors, I almost love it ;)
September 15th, 2009 at 6:23 am
hahaha, i have the same ALMOST-love affair with blue, gabrielius.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:55 am
Hugs!
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Bonnie, I love the pictures you have chosen. I think they speak to who you are. I particularly love the “solitude” one. Hugs, DonnaD.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Hi Bonnie. I just want to thank you for all you have added to this place: in form and in content. May the awareness of Love’s constant presence flow with you as time unfolds. Peace.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Bonnie I love the ’solitude’ picture you’ve added… I want to be that girl… When I quiet my mind and look at it for a long time, I almost become her. Great image.
I also love Nina’s comment (#2) that when she saw your picture she said to herself oh, “I thought I’d lost you.” I completely bawled when I read that, as I felt it too. I will never know why I can love so deeply those people I haven’t even met in person, but well, I do.
Thank you also for your kind comment on my Abbey page. So glad I ‘crack you up’. If laughter were the cause of awakening, I think this group here is well on its way. I so enjoy the giggles and am, as a result, learning to apply them to the ’serious’ issues in my life. Seriously!!
Love,
Deb
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 am
Dear Bonnie ~
Your music at the beginning of Jamie’s recorded classes is a soothing treat.
How about adding a Bonnie’s Studio – or some such – to the side bar, so we
can access your music easily. There you could place longer pieces also.
Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
Love,
Cynthia
October 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am
OK then Bonnie, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
So here’s a little ditty for you. It’s not a real birthday song, but a pirated video of Joshua Bell’s encore right here in Seattle. I find it amazing, but I’m not a musician. I hope you enjoy it.
I will get out my birthday book later today when I have a bit more time. : )
October 13th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Happy Birthday Bonnie! And what’s your favorite kind of cake? Party in the grotto tonight. Love Annie
October 13th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Debbi you wondered about how one can love people that you haven’t met in person. So have I and this is what I have come up with so far. In the Course it says something like God is an idea and this we can accept but what we have trouble accepting is that we are ideas also, not bodies. When I first started this Course I felt so alone because I didn’t have another body next to my body to interact with that knew the Course also. Then I found this Monastery of the Mists and while I have been here the loneliness has slowly abated. Today while doing errands after reading your whisper above I pondered this and the parts about mind training and communicating came up and I realisied that for me anyway this ‘place’ helps me take the focus off of the body because I can’t see body language,facial expressions, or hear the tone of a voice and that puts the focus on communicating clearly with my thoughts. Bodies do not communicate, only minds communicate. This is helping me to shift from thinking that I or anyone else is a body to knowing we are mind, a unified Idea. And the Idea is the love of God.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Pam, how beautifully put. It makes such sense. I shared something today in another “room” of the Monastery and afterward, I wondered why it was easier (although scary for me) to do this than if I had a person to talk to. Now I get it. Many hugs, DonnaD.
October 13th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Oh, Pam… thank you so much. You have such an elegant way of putting words to what is in my heart.
And I must say – YOU ALL ARE THE BEST IDEAS I’VE EVER HAD!!!
October 13th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Your welcome and thank you.:) :) :)
P.S. I asked H.S. to help.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Thank you Bonnie for sharing your photos of Jamie on retreat…and I love the one of you both. It must have been taken early in your relationship; I would love to see a current photo of you both together. The respect you extend to each other is admirable. I like that your pictures are next to each other in the gallery. I know this site is special because you have been and continue to be at his side.
You are one beautiful Lady.
Love,
Annie
January 10th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
awww, thank you so much, LaAnnie! that is very touching and sweet. :)
January 11th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
bonnie!! love you so much!! have the sweetest evening…take in every moment. breathe and feel it all…love is in the air and all around! thank you for sharing it with us!!! we will be with you. xoxoxo
January 12th, 2010 at 12:09 am
at the end of Jeff’s class today, we met a gentleman who has had the privilege of spending a little time with ya’ll and recounted a lovely story of you and Jamie jamming on ‘orange blossom special’. H and I pictured you guys playing the song in sweet fun, not for a second feeling or acknowledging your ’separation’, and lo! upon getting to our room and checking the monastery you guys announce your engagement and remarriage. here’s to sweet coincidences:
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
♥♥♥Dearest Bonnie♥♥♥
My first time to revisit your gallery since the bliss and thrill of your wedding day. I felt and continue to feel such peace and happiness when i think of you and Jamie being together. The day just before your suprise wedding I was reflecting on how sad I felt that you weren’t together.
Many, as Winnie likes to say, Big Fat Hugs for ♥♥♥you♥♥♥!
January 25th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
hi michele!
thank you for the kind sentiment. it is very meaningful to me, and i must say i feel the same peace and happiness when i think of being with jamie, too!! :) he is my best friend, and i am so grateful for the love and support we have been shown here from everyone. and thank you again, heather and nick, for the wonderful poem that you provided and jamie read to me during the wedding – it has been turning in my head, and will stay with me for years…
February 26th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hello Bonnie :)………….I enjoy visiting your gallery. The “fall” picture is simply spectacular. We dont have the season of Fall over here {in Queensland}.
You have a beautiful beautiful honest smile and i can feel your inner gentility. Like Lisi, i like “Cracked” very much. It reminds me of the youtube segment that Monk likes --
The first picture “artistry” is just lovely. I like the way her face has taken on the shape of the violin, like she has become one with the her instrument and there is a soft feminine quality about the picture too… I imagine it would look very nice hanging up in your studio.
“Reaching” intrigues and frustrates me at the same time. I want more of the vibrant rich colour and i feel like the picture is teasing me and not letting me have its full glory like it`s just out of my reach.
“Solitude” is soft and unresisting. It has the same yellow/brown tones of “Artistry”, colours that dont normally appeal to me. There is something relaxing about gazing at the gentle folds of her head cloth and i love that she is hugging herself gently just as the gorilla is too…..hugs to you !
February 27th, 2010 at 8:27 am
hi winnie! thank you for your comments here – i like having you visit. :) i’m very sorry you don’t have fall there… that is one of my favorite seasons! i enjoyed your descriptions of the photos i chose. my favorite right now is the gorilla hug. :)