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ENCOURAGE SELF-INTRODUCTION and REINFORCE the FIRST WEEK’ OUTLINE

Please feel encouraged to respond to one another's contributions. Remember, cyberspace is a seminar room, not a lecture hall. We can all be talking at once without running interference with one another.

WEDNESDAY E-MAIL FOR WEEK #1:
Nearly a third of us in the Power of Forgiveness course are now on board (i.e., the DISCUSSIONS board), which is quite good given that this is only the third day of the class.  (I have also heard by private e-mail from some of you who have momentary situational challenges to resolve before you visibly join us.)  

If any of you are being prevented from participation by technical challenges, please avail yourself immediately of the HELP services listed in the footer of this e-mail message.

I have found something to appreciate in every one of your DISCUSSION posts thus far, and expect to continue doing so.  To that end, even though I will be attending a conference in Texas for the next four days, leaving home at 5 a.m. on Thursday and returning late Sunday evening, and do not have an online-able laptop computer of my own, I have arranged with another conferee to use hers.  Just in case, however, there is anything to the rumor that on the eighth day God turned his handiwork over to Murphy**, please know that any lapse of response-ability on my part will be totally unintended. I will have encountered yet another opportunity for digital forgiveness (i.e., looking at my fingers and saying, “let me count the ways . . .”).

If any of you wishes to communicate with me by private e-mail, please do so by 10 p.m. PDST this evening (Wednesday), as I will have no access to my regular e-mails until I return on Sunday evening.

As for next week’s chat sessions (one hour each), I will announce them on Monday after having heard by then (I trust) from all of you on your workable times for chat.  (Please respond to the DISCUSSION thread entitled “Best Time(s) to Chat”) 

**Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

Stay in the grace!

Noel McInnis
noelmcinnis@choosingforgiveness.org