Shalom,
Greg Powell
Turning to Joy
12 years ago
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Chapter 9
The blog is generating very little blogging. From my conversations with various people I am led to believe people are reading the book but not blogging about it. So, I would offer that we begin using the blog to talk about the process of blogging, book study blogs, and other items related to how blogs might serve us in maintaining and renewing friendships and relationships in our parish. Either way, I will keep posting chapter titles...
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Sitting down and making entries to the blog takes the same commitment as attending a book discussion at the Cathedral. What is hard is not having the specific date and time each week. It takes a certain discipline to make the time without that formal commitment. I experienced this in taking on-line classes. It is so easy to tell myself I will write an entry to the blog the next day. All of a sudden the next day becomes 3-4 days. What I like about the blog is that you have the time to digest and respond to a comment from another participant. How many times have you left a discussion and thought”I wish I had said…”? If you are reading the book, please share your thoughts. I have gone back and re-read certain passages after reading an entry because it provided a new insight.
ReplyDeleteAs to September, there were a couple of thoughts that I found interesting. Noelle commented - “How much easier to see through another’s self-limiting thoughts than to see through our own.” The other topic was on the discussion of worrying versus wishing. That worrying was something feared while wishing was something desired. Worrying was a form of depletion and wishing a source of motivation. At the end of the chapter Noelle states that the ‘best wishers are worriers because worrying is an essential precursor of a well made wish.’ So even in wishing we need a check and balance system.
Connie - I like your comments on worrying and wishing and the thought of checks and balances!
ReplyDeleteI also agree that having a specific date to finish a chapter would be helpful - I read thru the first 9 chapters at the begining and am finding it hard to go back to the book now and finish....