Luau Time!

SAT., JUNE 12, 1999, 11:25 AM
HAMA’S CABANA, HONOLULU

It is a bright, sunny, warm day here in Hawaii. The doves are cooing, and an occasional plane is heard as it proceeds across the sky. You have had an ample breakfast and then a sweat-generating walk up to the top of the Circle… even a little way up the trail. You’ll go farther this next week, showing this “bit” of Hawaii to Matthew.

The gathering last evening was fun, alleviating some of your concerns about “being remembered.” Just relax and enjoy conversations and remembrances, without concern for how you’re being perceived. Continue to re-read, each day, the Teachings you’ve written on this trip (as well as reviewing those of 5 years back), which will help in recognizing and identifying the spiritual aspects of this adventure. Remember… this is coming to be your primary focus, as you are in these golden years of this earth life.

The Luau and the party following will give you more opportunities to relate to these former students, now almost “seniors” themselves. It is a unique set of circumstances, and you wish there were ways to relate comparably to some of the wonderful former students from SIU. You should reconsider going to at least one conference a year, just to keep friendship ties viable. You needn’t be interested, much, in the issues your profession is concerned with, but, remember, you still are a symbol, for many, of the importance of including the Spiritual as a vital dimension of Health.

Luau time causes you to think again of your son, Michael, now in a closer walk than ever, with Me. It was on John Patrick’s farm… the imu, the hot rocks, the simulation… and a fairly genuine luau, spearheaded by Michael, the “island man.” The differences in your religious and spiritual perceptions and experiences made it harder to maintain the strong father/son feelings of earlier years. You were both sorry about this, but it just was an unfortunate fact. Just focus on the “good times” You had and accept that My love for diversity has its down side, too. I don’t apologize for this. It’s just one of the apparent realities of earth life.

Punahou School was founded by Christian missionaries from New England, who had to struggle with their desires that their own children continue with haole Christian customs and not be absorbed by the “pagan Hawaiians.” Yet today’s Luau is the yearly symbol of the desire of many alumni of this School to claim and enjoy some Hawaiian customs. It is a “mixture,” another example of diversity.

For you, too, it is a symbol of your continued connection with this School and some of its alums quite different from your “home base.” I have called you a “Presbyterian mystic” (low level), and this means you are diverse in some other ways to all but a few of these Luau participants. I do have fun with these various “combinations”!

I want you to see yourself, increasingly, as this odd mystic, buoyed, continually, by Me and My Teachings to you. In one way this separates you from most other humans, an “aloneness” that need not be “lonely.” Yet in another sense it frees you… even motivates you… to relate gently and comfortably with many others. You can remain an active Presbyterian, with little concern for the reality that Presbyterian mystics are quite rare (Remember and cherish Chris!)

You can still be identified as a health educator, even as you have little interest in most of the “stock concerns”… and almost full interest in the spiritual as the essence of health. In other words you can be less “well-rounded,” feeling that you’ve “been here and done that.” And one “feature” of this perspective on life is less and less concern to live earth life longer and to see physical death as a “condition” to postpone, even in “heroic” ways.