ACIM Groups Holiday Schedule
Nov 18, 2008 16:32 Filed in: Announcement
Dear ACIM friends,
These weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are times when many of us are engaged with our family and friends. That is certainly true for me. I will also be out of town for a week of genealogy study and research in Salt Lake City in early January. In addition to skipping the holidays, I have decided that, because there are an usually large number of events scheduled at the Unity Church the week before Christmas, we will not hold meetings that week. As a result, our ACIM groups will have several weeks without meetings during this season. Unfortunately, this comes just as our year of Workbook practice is coming to its climax and end. You will, alas, be without the support of group meetings during these final weeks of the year. If you wish to gather as a group, without me, feel free to do so. Or perhaps two or three of you will choose to "buddy up" during this time.
I will, of course, make sure that my Workbook commentaries for the entire period will be posted in a timely manner to the group website.
Here is the proposed schedule from now through mid-January:
Since we’ll be missing the last two or three meetings of the year for everyone, I plan, on Dec. 9 and 11, to go over what I call “post-Workbook practice.” Basically, it’s, “What do I do after I finish the Workbook? Should I do it again? If not, what should I do?” That will very likely be in place of Text study that week, or at least will displace part of it. In the Tuesday meeting on January 6, we can have an extended time of sharing, covering not only the preceding three weeks, but summing up the year-long experience. To stay in sync with the Thursday group we won’t do Text study that day; we’ll do something a bit different.
We will return to a regular schedule starting the week of January 20 and 22. My plan as of now is to continue study of the Text, expanding it to the full two hours of class (well, 90 minutes generally, after schmoozing, announcements, the break, and the meditation). We are just now completing Chapter 13, so we will be going on to Chapter 14. This coincides with my desire to resume writing new commentary on the Text because, up till now, I’ve written commentary only through Chapter 14 Section IX. Once we reach Section X (about the first week in March), I will have to write new material to hand out week by week. I’m whittling away at my schedule to carve out time for this writing. I’ll begin this week, actually, to get a bit of a head start, but I won’t be able completely cover a section each week until I free up more time. Laying out the schedule like this will help motivate me to drop some activities to make room for the writing.
To finish the Text, even though we are almost at the halfway mark, will take a lot of time. There are something like 150 sections of the Text left. If we do one per week, with time off for holidays and such, it will take us over three years to finish. So this is a huge commitment of my time—and of yours! Be advised that you do not have to commit to finishing, and any amount of time that you can attend will be of great benefit to you, and blessing to everyone else in the group. You are all invited, even if you can only come once a month.
Wishing you many blessings and a very happy holiday time,
Allen
P.S. I hope, some time in the next five or six months (depending on both my own schedule and that of the Unity Church) to offer a one-day workshop based on A Course in Miracles. I’m not sure, yet, if it will be a basic Introduction, a Forgiveness Workshop, or some other theme. Whatever it is, it will be a good foundation for anyone relatively new to the Course. Please let me know if you would be interested in attending. My tentative thought is a workshop that runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on a Saturday, with a lunch break, for a suggested donation of $25 (or whatever you can afford).
These weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are times when many of us are engaged with our family and friends. That is certainly true for me. I will also be out of town for a week of genealogy study and research in Salt Lake City in early January. In addition to skipping the holidays, I have decided that, because there are an usually large number of events scheduled at the Unity Church the week before Christmas, we will not hold meetings that week. As a result, our ACIM groups will have several weeks without meetings during this season. Unfortunately, this comes just as our year of Workbook practice is coming to its climax and end. You will, alas, be without the support of group meetings during these final weeks of the year. If you wish to gather as a group, without me, feel free to do so. Or perhaps two or three of you will choose to "buddy up" during this time.
I will, of course, make sure that my Workbook commentaries for the entire period will be posted in a timely manner to the group website.
Here is the proposed schedule from now through mid-January:
Since we’ll be missing the last two or three meetings of the year for everyone, I plan, on Dec. 9 and 11, to go over what I call “post-Workbook practice.” Basically, it’s, “What do I do after I finish the Workbook? Should I do it again? If not, what should I do?” That will very likely be in place of Text study that week, or at least will displace part of it. In the Tuesday meeting on January 6, we can have an extended time of sharing, covering not only the preceding three weeks, but summing up the year-long experience. To stay in sync with the Thursday group we won’t do Text study that day; we’ll do something a bit different.
We will return to a regular schedule starting the week of January 20 and 22. My plan as of now is to continue study of the Text, expanding it to the full two hours of class (well, 90 minutes generally, after schmoozing, announcements, the break, and the meditation). We are just now completing Chapter 13, so we will be going on to Chapter 14. This coincides with my desire to resume writing new commentary on the Text because, up till now, I’ve written commentary only through Chapter 14 Section IX. Once we reach Section X (about the first week in March), I will have to write new material to hand out week by week. I’m whittling away at my schedule to carve out time for this writing. I’ll begin this week, actually, to get a bit of a head start, but I won’t be able completely cover a section each week until I free up more time. Laying out the schedule like this will help motivate me to drop some activities to make room for the writing.
To finish the Text, even though we are almost at the halfway mark, will take a lot of time. There are something like 150 sections of the Text left. If we do one per week, with time off for holidays and such, it will take us over three years to finish. So this is a huge commitment of my time—and of yours! Be advised that you do not have to commit to finishing, and any amount of time that you can attend will be of great benefit to you, and blessing to everyone else in the group. You are all invited, even if you can only come once a month.
Wishing you many blessings and a very happy holiday time,
Allen
P.S. I hope, some time in the next five or six months (depending on both my own schedule and that of the Unity Church) to offer a one-day workshop based on A Course in Miracles. I’m not sure, yet, if it will be a basic Introduction, a Forgiveness Workshop, or some other theme. Whatever it is, it will be a good foundation for anyone relatively new to the Course. Please let me know if you would be interested in attending. My tentative thought is a workshop that runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on a Saturday, with a lunch break, for a suggested donation of $25 (or whatever you can afford).
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