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		<title>８月の良いお話しと無料イベントを、みんなに少しお裾分けぇー！　　</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[真奈美のモーメント]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[御霊、]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[無料イベント、クラス]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[神の子、]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[日曜サービスの時に、スカイ牧師が、毎週、口を酸っぱく繰り返し言う３つの言葉があります。私達の方は、耳にたこが出来るくらい毎回聞いているので、すっかり暗記してしまいました。重要な言葉なんだけれど、毎日の忙しい生活、嫌な事があったり、この不安の世の中、ついつい忘れて文句を言いがちな毎日の生活に、スカイ牧師が一週間に一度、私達に思い出させてくれます。８月と９月の２回に分けて、紹介したいと思います。
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>日曜サービスの時に、スカイ牧師が、毎週、口を酸っぱく繰り返し言う３つの言葉があります。私達の方は、耳にたこが出来るくらい毎回聞いているので、すっかり暗記してしまいました。重要な言葉なんだけれど、毎日の忙しい生活、嫌な事があったり、この不安の世の中、ついつい忘れて文句を言いがちな毎日の生活に、スカイ牧師が一週間に一度、私達に思い出させてくれます。８月と９月の２回に分けて、紹介したいと思います。<a href="http://www.unityhawaii.org/unitynews/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gl0708222.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1020" title="gl070822" src="http://www.unityhawaii.org/unitynews/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gl0708222-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>一つ目は、『<span style="text-decoration: underline;">私たちは、神様の子である</span>。』神様はいつも、私達のそばにいて守ってくれているから、大丈夫だと言う事を毎週話してくれます。しかし私達日本人は、「赤ちゃんは、神様からの授かりもの」、「危機一発で神様に守られたぁ~！」、大学の合格祈願などのため、神社にお参りに行ったり、日本には、神様に対する<a title="神事" href="http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/神事" target="_blank">行事や祭り事</a>は、沢山あるのだけれど、どうも、私達は、神様の子だの、神、仏様を信じるとかの宗教に関する事に対しては、『ギョッ~』とするのは、何故なんだろうと思う。誰か、答えを知っていたら教えてください！私自身も、「私が、神の子？」と　１００％言い切り、心から信じてるのかというと、、、、疑問やね、、、『わからんけど、何かに守られてるんやなぁ~』と感じる心が、それが、私にとっての神様のように思える。目に見えないのだけど、安心感をもたらせてくれる存在です。または、そのような事を勝手に、私が神様と呼んでるだけなのかもしれません。私の解釈でしかないけど、それを仏様、宇宙、ご先祖様と、呼んでも良いのだと思う。自分の心と御霊がつながる言葉を使えば良いのだと思う。そして、自分の心と御霊をすがすがしく、満たしてくれる場所に行けば良いのだと思う。私達を含めた全てが、神様が創ったものだとしたら、お寺でも、教会でも、山でも海でも何処にでも、神様は存在してるのだと思う。ふと、つらいなぁーとか淋しいなぁーと思う時、言葉にして、神様が守られてるから、大丈夫と何度も言ってみてください。もし、神様が言いにくければ、お爺ちゃん、お婆ちゃん、いつも守ってくれてありがとうでもいいのです。変に安心感を与えられると思います。目に見えないけれど、感じれる心が神様なのだと思います。続きは、来月の９月の第一日曜に！</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">８月の無料のイベントとクラス</span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>＊ラブ　オファリング　（寄付）ですので、お金がないけれど、イベントやクラスに参加したい人は、遠慮しないで是非、来てください。私も、お金がない時は、気持ちだけ沢山にして、参加しています！</p>
<p><strong><em>（ピアノと歌のコンサート）</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>８月１５日（日）</p>
<p>７時−８時（教会にて）</p>
<p>＊今のこの瞬間を、素敵な気持ちにさせてくれるコンサート。</p>
<p><strong><em>（パワー　オブ　コミットメント）</em></strong></p>
<p>８月２３日（月）</p>
<p>６時−８時（ルーム２０１）</p>
<p>＊意識的に自分の人生を創っていく方法 など。</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">毎週ある無料、格安イベント</span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>（<strong><em>月曜日</em></strong>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>AAミーティング</strong></span>（断酒会）</p>
<p>6 時３０分（コートヤード にて）<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>CODA　ミーティング </strong></span>（共依存者になりやすい方のミーティング）</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>６時　　　（ルーム２０１）</p>
<p>（<strong><em>火曜日</em></strong>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>コース　オブ　ミラクル</strong></span></p>
<p>７時　（ラナイにて）</p>
<p>＊人に対しての感謝、愛、許しについて の本で、話し合い、勉強グループです。</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>（<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>水曜日</em></strong></span>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>トーストマスタース</strong></span></p>
<p>午前７時半          (ルーム２０１にて)</p>
<p>＊人前で、話すのが苦手な人のための スピーチのクラス。</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>お祈りとヒーリングと瞑想のサービス。</strong></span></p>
<div>午後７時　（チャペルにて）</div>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>（</strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>木曜日</em></strong></span><strong>）</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>AA　ミーティング（断酒会）。</strong></span></strong></p>
<p>午後<strong>８時　（コートヤードにて）</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>（<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>金曜日</em></strong></span>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>スピリチャルムービーナイト</strong></span></p>
<p>午後７時　（チャペルにて）                 <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>（<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>土曜日</em></strong></span>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ヨガ</strong></span></p>
<p>午前８時         （ルーム２０１にて）</p>
<p>（<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em>第２、４土曜日</em></strong></span>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ユニティーハイキング</strong></span></p>
<p>午前８時　（パーキングにて）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ボール　ルーム　ダンシング　クラス</strong></span><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></strong></p>
<p>午後５時　（コートヤードにて）</p>
<p>*１０ドル</p>
<p>（<span style="text-decoration: underline;">日曜日</span>）</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>コース　オブ　ミラクル</strong></span></p>
<p>午後１時　（ルーム２０１にて）      <strong> </strong></p>
<p>＊人に対しての感謝、愛、許しについての本で、話し合い、勉強グループです。</p>
<p>これ以外にも、１５０以上のイベントとクラスがありますので、興味のある方は、<a title="イベントカレンダー" href="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ekolsdq8s8oro56a9l8oqtv6uc@group.calendar.google.com&amp;gsessionid=OK" target="_blank">こちらをご覧下さい</a>。</p>
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		<title>いつ、どこで、そんな楽しいチャーチがあるの？</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[真奈美のモーメント]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[チャーチサンデーサービス。]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[場所、]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[（住所）3608 Diamond Head Circle Honolulu, Hawaii 96816

（連絡先）(808)735-4436: トールフリー(888)338-6489

(バスを利用の方）

アラモアナから、２３番か２４番のバスを利用してください。ワイキキからは、２２番、２３番か２４番のバスを利用し、ダイアモンドヘッドサークルで降りてください。進行方向に向かって、右手にユティーチャーチのサインが見えてきます。
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</p><p><strong>（住所）</strong>3608 Diamond Head Circle Honolulu, Hawaii 96816  <a title="地図" href="http://www.unityhawaii.org/map.html" target="_blank">（地図）</a></p>
<p><strong>（連絡先）</strong>(808)735-4436:<strong>(トールフリー)</strong>(888)338-6489</p>
<p><strong>(バスを利用の方）</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>アラモアナから、２３番か２４番のバスを利用してください。ワイキキからは、２２番、２３番か２４番のバスを利用し、ダイアモンドヘッドサークルで降りてください。進行方向に向かって、右手にユティーチャーチのサインが見えます。</p>
<p><strong>( 車を利用の方）</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>ワイキキのカラカアウア道りをまっすぐに行き、カピオラニ公園の入る手前で、モンサラットアヴェニューが左手に見えますので、その道を利用し、約１マイル運転すると、右手にユニティーチャーチのサインが見えてきます。パーキングは、ダイアモンドサークルの周りにストリート駐車してください。</p>
<p><strong>（午前７時半からのサービス）</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>このサービスは、朝が早いという理由もあり、ゆっくりと落ち着いた、ソフトな感じで始まりますが、歌もダンスもお話の内容も他のサービスと何も変わりありません。落ち着いたサービスに参加したい方におすすめ。</p>
<p><strong>（午前９時からのサービス）</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>だんだんと、スカイ牧師の歌、ダンスのテンションなどがあがってきますが、あまり静かなのも嫌だし、クレイジーなのも困るという方に丁度良いサービスです。</p>
<p><strong>（午前１１時からのサービス）</strong></p>
<p>スカイ牧師のテンションも、サービスに来ている人達のテンションも上がり、とても、元気で活気のある、少しクレージーなサービスです。このサービスが、一番人気のあるサービスの時間です。<a title="スカイ牧師について" href="http://www.unityhawaii.org/minister.html" target="_blank">（スカイ牧師について）</a></p>
<p><strong>( ライブでのサービス）</strong></p>
<p>いい話を聞いたり、イベントやアクティビティーの情報は、欲しいけど、日曜日は、仕事で行けないとか、ハワイに住んでないから、行けないとか、チャーチに行くのは、抵抗があるなぁと思ってる方に丁度良いサービスです。ハワイ時間の９時か１１時にユニティーチャーチのウェブサイト（http://www.unityhawaii.org/）を開いてもらえれば、ライブでサンデーサービスが見る事ができます。</p>
<p>初めてチャーチに来る方には、素敵なプレゼントとフリーの朝食が用意されてるので、是非来てください！</p>
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		<title>歌って、踊って、誰でも来られる楽しい、ハワイのチャーチを見つけた！</title>
		<link>http://www.unityhawaii.org/unitynews/2010/manamis-moments/%e6%ad%8c%e3%81%a3%e3%81%a6%e3%80%81%e8%b8%8a%e3%81%a3%e3%81%a6%e3%80%81%e8%aa%b0%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82%e6%9d%a5%e3%82%89%e3%82%8c%e3%82%8b%e6%a5%bd%e3%81%97%e3%81%84%e3%80%81%e3%83%8f%e3%83%af%e3%82%a4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[真奈美のモーメント]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[スピリチャル、]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ユニティーチャーチ、]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[成長、元気]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[２０年近く、ハワイで色んな、お寺、チャーチを探していた私ですが、やっと、私の心と身体と魂が、ひとつになれて元気になれるチャーチを見つけました。どのお寺もチャーチも、いいお話を聞かせてもらって、心に響いたけれど、同じ命をもらった人間として、どんな人でも行けるチャーチを探していました。キリスト教、仏教、イスラム、どんな宗教を信じていようが、生まれ育った国が違っても、自分の持っている価値観、文化や宗教を捨てずに、それらを大切にしながら、参加出来るチャーチです。スピリチャルの成長を重要としているチャーチです。]]></description>
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</p><p>２０年近く、ハワイで色んな、お寺、チャーチを探していた私ですが、やっと、私の心と身体と魂が、ひとつになれて元気になれるチャーチを見つけました。どのお寺もチャーチも、いいお話を聞かせてもらって、心に響いたけれど、同じ命をもらった人間として、どんな人でも行けるチャーチを探していました。キリスト教、仏教、イスラム、どんな宗教を信じていようが、生まれ育った国が違っても、自分の持っている価値観、文化や宗教を捨てずに、それらを大切にしながら、参加出来るチャーチです。スピリチャルの成長を重要としているチャーチです。</p>
<p>ユニティーチャーチハワイでは、毎月、スピリチャルの成長のためのクラス、ライセンスユニティーティーティチャーのコースやバイブルスタディーからハイキング、映画、ダンスのクラス、シングルの人達の集まり、断酒会のミーティングなど毎月、１５０以上のアクティビティーやクラスがあります。しかも、無料のイベントが沢山です！チャーチでのサンデーサービスのお話を聞く以外にも、楽しめるチャーチです。そして、サンデーのサービスは、まるで、ブロードウエイのショウーをただで見ているような気分です。何にも、考えず、コンサートを見に来る気分で、せひ、見に来てください！</p>
<p>私にとって、初めてのブログとなるわけですが、少しでも、この、明るくて、元気がでるユニティーチャーチハワイを日本人のみなさんに紹介したくて、スカイ牧師に、お願いし、このブログを始めました。私は、関西人ですので、大阪弁を使いながら楽しく、時にはしんみりと私の見た、感じたユニティーチャーチハワイの事と、サンデーのサービス, スピリチャルのクラスや色んなアクティビティーの情報、チャーチ以外での私の思う元気になりそうな良いお話と共にこのブログを毎月、第一日曜日に書いていこうと思います。そして、あなたの背中に、フレー！フレー！頑張れ！とポンポンのフサフサを持ちながら応援ができ、ユニティーチャーチハワイを通して、少しでも、日本人のみなさんに元気を送れたら、とても幸せです。そして、私も一緒に、成長していけたらと願っています。これから、よろしく御願いします。</p>
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		<title>Who&#8217;ll Speak for the Earth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, the question Sky raised last year before the entire Unity movement remains timely and sadly unanswered. It was a challenge to fulfill Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore's charge to express our Divine self through <strong>good works</strong>.]]></description>
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As the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, the question Sky raised last year before the entire Unity movement remains timely and sadly unanswered.</p>
<p>In a presentation at the 2009 Unity People&#8217;s Convention, he (along with our Music Director Alethea Train, Charles Holt, and others from Unity Church of Hawai‘i) paid tribute to the planet in music and images. It was a challenge to fulfill Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore&#8217;s charge to express our Divine self through <strong>good works</strong>.</p>
<p>On his return to Hawai‘i, Sky offered the same tribute and challenge to us, here on this island&#8230;where traditionally, the earth and sky and sea are viewed respectfully and reverently.</p>
<p>It seems an appropriate time to reprise that tribute, in light of the disaster that continues before our eyes right now:</p>
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		<title>Sometimes we don&#8217;t know&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 00:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sky St. John</dc:creator>
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Sometimes our spiritual growth happens so slowly and over such time that we don’t really notice it until something occurs to bring into focus just how much we have changed.  I had such an experience this past week.
Twenty years ago I owned a small motorcycle—and I loved it.  Riding on two wheels feels close to [...]]]></description>
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</p><p>Sometimes our spiritual growth happens so slowly and over such time that we don’t really notice it until something occurs to bring into focus just how much we have changed.  I had such an experience this past week.</p>
<p>Twenty years ago I owned a small motorcycle—and I loved it.  Riding on two wheels feels close to flying to me—soaring through the wind without the enclosure of a steel shell we commonly call “the car.”  For two of those ten years I drove it over the Pali Highway daily to Hawaii Loa College, getting my degree in nursing.  The road is winding, heavily trafficked and almost always wet from the more than frequent mountain rain.  It was dangerous to be sure, however, that never caused me any serious concern.  <em>But,</em> I was severely phobic about taking the motorcycle-driving test.  So for the entire ten years, I <em>never had a license—not even a learner’s permit! </em></p>
<p>I was sober at that time, and drove carefully, so thankfully I was never cited, and I always wore a helmet.</p>
<p>How I have changed—and didn’t even “try!”</p>
<p>For a while now, I’ve been wanting another motorcycle; Hawaii is the perfect place to own and ride.  I looked for the right size and model, and last week, found it.  I bought the used, Honda Night Hawk, and without a moment’s hesitation, <em>knew I was going to take all the tests! </em> There was no internal argument, no need to rationalize with myself and no big struggle—I just assumed I would “do the right thing” this time…and I have.  Today I passed the first exam and received my official learner’s permit, which makes me ‘legal.”</p>
<p>I’m going to spend some time and wonder where the fear went.  I want to reflect and ponder on the deep change that has given me unbidden strength and acceptance.  I don’t know where all that will lead aside from some private insight, but I already know that I have appreciation for all that has been unfolding in my life; overcoming obstacles I’m not yet even aware of.</p>
<p>I’m also going to wonder on the many ways all of us are maturing, healing and growing into our wholeness and are unaware until some situation arises that calls us to respond in a better way—and we will&#8211;automatically, naturally, with grace and peace.</p>
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		<title>The cycle of giving and receiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 07:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we know there are spiritual laws playing out in life every day. But back here in the shadows of the Blog Cave, it's easy to forget. That's why it's good to get a real-life reminder once in a while.]]></description>
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</p><p>So we know there are spiritual laws playing out in life every day. But back here in the shadows of the Blog Cave, it&#8217;s easy to forget. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s good to get a real-life reminder once in a while. Like the one that found Sky last week&#8230;one that he featured last Sunday. We&#8217;ll let him explain&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Challenging the traditional view of prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 07:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought that prayer was a pretty straightforward process? Like putting something on your amazon.com wishlist and waiting for it to be delivered to your door? That's why, it seems, so many folks complain that their prayers go unanswered. But as Sky said on May 9, God isn't a divine pharmacist just waiting to fill your human prescription.]]></description>
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</p><p>Thought that prayer was a pretty straightforward process? Like putting something on your amazon.com wishlist and waiting for it to be delivered to your door?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why, it seems, so many folks complain that their prayers go unanswered. </p>
<p>But as Sky said on May 9, God isn&#8217;t a divine pharmacist just waiting to fill your human prescription. That&#8217;s just one line from an extraordinary talk, one that challenged the tired, old paradigm so many of us grew up with (and have turned away from).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great when he pushes the envelope on Sundays, and this time, he really stretched it&#8230;and asked us to stretch as well. Here&#8217;s some excerpts; for the full talk, go to our <a href="http://www.unityhawaii.org/podcasts">Media page</a> and listen to the podcast.</p>
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		<title>The Birds got it right.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sky St. John</dc:creator>
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My gym is on the second floor of a hotel and on the lanai, where the dreaded ab-crunchers are, you can see right into the tops of the palm trees planted down below.  Between my tasteful grunts, I spotted two doves sitting next to each other on a gracefully drooping frond.  I watched [...]]]></description>
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</p><p>My gym is on the second floor of a hotel and on the lanai, where the dreaded ab-crunchers are, you can see right into the tops of the palm trees planted down below.  Between my tasteful grunts, I spotted two doves sitting next to each other on a gracefully drooping frond.  I watched as they lovingly groomed each other and huddled close in the morning coolness (it was 5:30 am&#8230;).<br />
“Remarkable,” I thought, as I noted that one was pure white and the other grey and black all over; “their color means nothing to them.”  I tried to see which was the male and which the female (making the usual hetero-sexist assumption), but couldn’t tell the difference.  Not in their bodies, or in their behaviors.  Granted, I’m not an ornithologist, so maybe their gender subtleties escaped me.  But maybe, too, like their color, they weren’t relating to each other on the basis of gender traits.  They just were together, enjoying the moment, being gentle and caring, sharing their life.<br />
In these respects, I think the birds got it right:  color doesn’t matter.  And maybe all the other stuff doesn’t matter, either&#8211;age, sex, economic status, caste, religion.  It looked to me like the real joy came in experiencing their togetherness and the affection that was passed so freely.  I guess what matters is the love that is shared; as one of my favorite Fred Small songs says at the end:  “And the only measure of the life that you live will be the love you leave behind when your gone&#8230;”</p>
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		<title>Illness, Consciousness, and Father Damien</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sky St. John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an article in yesterday’s newspaper, about Father Damien and his impending canonization. I worked in Kalaupapa over a two-year period as a nurse, so I was interested. Damien has long been one of my personal, spiritual heroes, which is why I wanted to work in the colony; I wanted to serve the same people he did, lived where he did, and walk the land the way he did.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>There was an <a title="Fr. Damien from Honolulu Advertiser" href="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200908240200/NEWS01/908240345" target="_blank">article in yesterday’s newspaper</a>, about Father Damien and his impending canonization.  I worked in Kalaupapa over a two-year period as a nurse, so I was interested.  Damien has long been one of my personal, spiritual heroes, which is why I wanted to work in the colony; I wanted to serve the same people he did, lived where he did, and walk the land the way he did.</p>
<p>I started to think about Damien’s life, and the fact that he succumbed to leprosy (or the now more correct, Hansen’s Disease), most likely as a result of his close contact with those he ministered to.  I teach that our bodies are the outworking of our consciousness and that perfect health is a Divine Idea—God’s flawless vision of who we really are.  Disease, then, is most often seen as a defect or something that needs to be healed.  This is tricky for me because it involves my nemesis:  judgment.  Somewhere along the way, the collective “we” have judged “disease” as a bad thing; a reflection of some area of our consciousness that is in error.  I think Damien’s life teaches something else.</p>
<p>Father Damien loved his people with all his heart and soul.  I can imagine that he wanted nothing more than for them to know a deep connection with God and each other.  I can imagine that he must have felt some separation from them, first, as a “haole” (Caucasian), and then as a “well” person.</p>
<p>Richard Marks, a resident of Kalaupapa, told me the story of how Damien revealed his illness to his parishioners.  He began his Sunday homily with the words:  “We lepers…”  He was, at last, one with his flock.  What a great love it was that brought him to that place with such grace and wonder.</p>
<p>So his illness was actually a supreme act of love, an ultimate gesture of oneness.  How then, could I call this a defect of consciousness?  How could this be a manifestation of error thinking?</p>
<p>I have friends now who struggle with cancer and other illnesses.  From now on, I refuse to see them as somehow flawed or unhealed.  I’m going to look for the love, the reaching, lessons that their condition is bringing forth.  I will see them perfect—at last.</p>
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		<title>Peace or passion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sky St. John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Sky proposes that for him, the spiritual journey is one of both peace and passion--both part of a cycle of grace.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>A good friend of mine who works at the Honolulu Zoo took a friend and me on a special “VIP” tour, yesterday.  It was a real treat:  getting to pet a great white rhinoceros, three-toed sloth, giraffe, and feed the hippos.  All the while, the zookeeper shared some interesting facts about the various beautiful and often, endangered, species we were seeing up close.  The sloth, this peaceful, sleepy and tree bound creature, does not possess the “flight or fight” reaction.  Neither does the rhino.  Actually, there are several species in which this sometimes-troublesome pattern is absent.  And I noticed that their approach to us was unnaturally peaceful, unthreatening and unthreatened.</p>
<p>My zookeeper friend said that whenever any of the workers are stressed by their jobs, they just come into the cage with the sloth, and sit a while.  Their perpetual peaceful state seems to pervade the area, and after a while, the humans come away restored and centered again.  What an amazing thing, and what an amazing gift to be giving—unknowingly and yet powerfully.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking today that I want to be more like that—a kind of peaceful presence that calms all who step into my “field.”  And yet as soon as I write that I know that I also want to be the kind of presence that energizes people and generates a kind of happy renewal in their souls.  I understand that there is a definite relationship between our closeness to God&#8211;the experience of joy&#8211; <em>and</em> that the inner pathway to that relationship is most easily achieved through an avenue of peace.  Maybe we get to the genuine exuberance of life by way of the stillness.</p>
<p>So should one path be the ending of the journey?  Do I want to be peaceful <em>all</em> the time?  If you know me, you know what the answer is.  So I think it’s a cycle of grace that we are on:  we dive deep into the peace, find the joy, live in genius and passion, and then cycle back in gratitude, to the peace.  Confusing?  Maybe this is the peace that passes all understanding…</p>
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