NEW THOUGHT WEEKLY

NEW THOUGHT WEEKLY

- TUESDAY DEC. 24 CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT SERVICE

- SUNDAY DECEMBER 29 PROGRAM

Tues. Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

You are invited to attend the NewThought Annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service from 7p.m-8pm Tuesday December 24.

The service will include sacred music and readings both scriptural and contemporary.

Participants will light their own individual candles and join in the singing of traditional carols.

Dessert/pupu/potluck and a time of fellowship will follow the service.

Musicians sharing their talents will include *Carmen Barreras, *Don Choquette, *Catherine Hansen, *Judith Lynne, *Bernice Roberto, Manuel Roberto, Ahti Mohala, Jamilla Nur, and Judy Rothstein, some of whom will perform together as the *NewThought Ensemble making its debut on this occasion. Their musical offering will include "Silent Night" in Hawaiian. Don will also play meditative toning bowls.

The service will take place at the NewThoughtCenter at Pualani Terrace (on the makai side of Mamalahoa Hwy. in Kealakekua, just south of Kamagaki Market).

DRESS WARMLY as this service takes place on an open lanai.

Childcare not available but children are welcome to attend with their families and to participate in the candle lighting with parental assistance.

Sun. Dec. 29 Michael and Coleen Watson - "Crystal Love" on the essence of relationships. Relationships have many facets and dimensions just like a crystals. By discovering the "mandala of love" individuals and couples can re-enter their unique birthright to love and be loved. The blissful sacred journey of coming home to self and others will be celebrated and honored in grace, peace, and love.

The 10:00 a.m. Sunday service is held on the makai lanai at Pualani Terrace in Kealakekua on the makai side of Mamalahoa Hwy. (Rt.11) just south of Kamagaki Market. All are welcomed. For further information call 329-2222 or see our web-site at www.NTCHawaii.org. Childcare is provided.

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CONTENTS

- Sunday Dec. 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service; Sunday Dec. 29 program "Crystal Love"
- About New Thought Center of Hawaii

- Upcoming Programs ( 3 )
- Humor ( Navajo Moon Landing Message; 3+9=1 Cuckooed Wife; Star Trek; )
- Words of Wisdom/Quest for Quotes ( lots )
- White Board Wisdom ( - )

- Worthy Websites ( "beautiful slide show of our planet..." )
- Attachment ( "Santa" by Drew Womack )
- Raw Food Recipe ( Caronana w/hemp )
- Miscellaneous ( Instructions for Life; A Peace Prayer by Mark Twain )
- Announcements ( 4 )
- Personals ( 1 )
- Spiritual Message ( <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> from White Buffalo Teachings by Chief Arvol Looking Horse )
- Affirmation ( yes )
- Reader Feedback ( 2 )
- Editorial ( yes )
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NEW THOUGHT CENTER OF HAWAII

By providing a loving, accepting, non-judgmental community, we at NewThought Center of Hawaii create a sanctuary for the nourishment, development, and evolution of each person's unique spiritual path.

LOOK FOR NEW MONTHLY MESSAGE STARTING IN JANUARY

We gather every Sunday at 10 a.m. in Kealakekua at Pualani Terrace just south of the Kealakekua Library. You are invited to join the circle.

Morty Breier pres. and board of NTCH.

The NewThoughtWeekly is archived on the NewThought website at www.NTCHawaii.org

To be removed from this mailing list, send email to jerry@turquoise.net

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

Jan. 5 Sean Rajaei Presentation on the teachings of Baha'ulleh and the spiritual beliefs of the Bahai faith. Program about God, religion, human nature and the Bahai faith.

Jan. 12 Lenore Ednie from Religious Science in Waikoloa will give a presentation on the highlights of the Religious Science conference in California.

Jan. 19 Latif Bolek, Turkish spiritual musician. Plays traditional Turkish instruments and will also present teaching from the Sufi tradition.

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HUMOR

NAVAJO MOON LANDING MESSAGE

When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.

One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks.

The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people:

"What are these guys in the big suits doing?"

One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.

Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why ... certainly!" and told an underling to get a tape recorder.

The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief.

The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he refused to translate.

So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe.

They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.

Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:

"Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land." Via Feedora

3 + 9 = 1 CUCKOOED WIFE

The other night I was invited out for a night with "the girls." I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!"

Well, the hours passed and the champagne was going down way too easy. Around 3 a.m., drunk as a skunk, I headed for home.

Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times.

Quickly, realizing he'd probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick witted solution even when smashed, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.

The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, and I told him 12:00.

He didn't seem disturbed at all. Whew! Got away with that one!

Then he said, "We need a new cuckoo clock."

When I asked him why, he said, "well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said "oh shit", cuckooed four more times, cleared it's throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more and then tripped over the cat and farted. via Barbara Concoby

STAR TREK

The Iraqi Ambassador to the UN has just finished giving a speech, and walks out into the lobby where he meets President

Bush.

They shake hands and as they walk the Iraqi says, "You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America."

President Bush says "Well, your Excellency, anything I can do to help you, I will do."

The Iraqi whispers "My son watches this show 'Star Trek' and in it there are Russians, and Blacks, and Asians, but never any Arabs. He is very upset. He doesn't understand why there are never any Arabs in 'Star Trek'."

President Bush laughs and leans toward the Iraqi, and whispers back, "That's because it takes place in the future." via BarbaraConcoby

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WORDS OF WISDOM / QUEST FOR QUOTES

Excerpts from Apples of Gold Compiled by Jo Petty via Barbara Concoby

- "It is only the forgiving who are qualified to receive forgiveness.

- We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

- Faults are thick when love is thin.

- The door to the human heart can be opened only from the inside.

- Love cannot be wasted. It makes no difference where it is bestowed, it always brings in big returns.

- To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.

- The only greatness is unselfish love.

- The only way to have a friend is to be one.

- Love is not soft like water, it is hard like rock, on which the waves of hatred beat in vain.

- To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love.

- One reason why a dog is such a lovable creature is that his tail wags instead of his tongue.

- One of the mysteries of life is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry the daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.

- Pure religion is love in action.

- Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

- Hate is a prolonged manner of suicide.

- What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.

- Some people give and forgive; others get and forget.

- Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Excerpts from Apples of Gold Compiled by Jo Petty via Barbara Concoby

Via Judy Rothstein

- A successful man is one who can make more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

"A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item she does not need. - A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. - To be happy with a man, you must love him a little and understand him alot. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand he at all. - Men wake up as good looking as they went to bed. Women somewhow deteriorate overnight. - A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting she won't change, but she does. - Married men live longer than single men, but married men are more willing to die. - A woman has the last word in an argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument." Via Judy Rothstein

- "We travel together as passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I'll say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all." Adlai Stevenson via Ed Bourne
- "If you were to take this reflection to heart and live in a way that honored this in your decisions and actions what would
be the same--or be different--in how you live your life?" Ed Bourne

- "Forgiveness is the fragrance left by the violet on the heel that crushed it." Mark Twain

- "What is Truth? Believing in Yourself as the center of Love." via Gwenda Eliason

- " Be soft in your practice
Think of the method as a fine silvery stream and not a raging waterfall.
Follow the stream. Have faith in its course.
It will go its own way meandering here, trickling there.
It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices
Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight (sense)
It will take you."
Sheng-yen 'The Souls Religion' by Thomas Moore via Judith Lynne
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WHITE BOARD WISDOM

Write your quotations on the NewThought WhiteBoard which awaits your words
of wisdom at every NewThought SundayService. Share your own, or the words of others.

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WORTHY WEBSITES

Thought you might enjoy this wonderful site. For a brief, beautiful, and insightful slide show of the small planet we share with 6 billion humans of goodwill, click on this link. (It was created in Italy by Allysson Lucca. I think you'll really like it.) Be sure to turn up your volume. Via Manuel Roberto

www.truemajority.com/register/earth.asp

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ATTACHMENT

A Christmas poem about Santa by "High Country" musician/poet/singer/songwriter/guitar player Drew Womack:

"I knew someday it would happen when my young child asked of me:

"Dad, is there a Santa, someone I can see?"

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RAW FOOD RECIPE

CARONANA w/HEMP

2 mashed bananas

4 TBS carrot juice pulp

2 TBS hemp oil

3 TBS Heart o' Hemp (dehulled hemp seed)

1 Lilikoi

2 TBS Sunflower seeds

1 TBS Nutritional yeast

Dash of Cayanne pepper

Mash, mix, and munch

Looking for carrot juice pulp recipes. It's too good to compost.

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MISCELLANEOUS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE

Eat plenty of whole rice.
Give people more than they expect and do this willfully.
Learn by heart your favorite song.
Don't believe anything you hear and do not sleep as much as you would like.

When you say "I love You", say it truthfully
When you say I'm sorry, say it with eye contact.
An engagement period of six months is crucial before marriage.
Believe in love at first sight.
Never mock other's dreams.
Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but this is the only way to live life at it's fullest.
Deal with discontentment, fight fairly, but do not offend.
Do not judge others because of their relatives.
Talk slow, think fast.
When someone asks you a question you do not want to answer, smile and ask "Why do you want to know?"
Remember that the greatest love and the greatest success also hold many risks.
Call your Mom.
Bless a person who has just sneezed.
When you lose, do not lose the lesson.
Remember: respect for yourself, respect for others, and responsibility for your actions.
Do not allow a small disagreement to hurt a great friendship.

Via Douglas Webster, Cetacean Nation

A PEACE PRAYER by Mark Twain

"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;

help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of the patriot dead;

help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;

help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;

help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief;

help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended,

the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst,

sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter,

broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -

for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives,

protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears,

stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!

We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love,

and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore, beset, and seek his aid with humble and contrite hearts.

Amen"

via Gwenda Eliason

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

DEC.31 NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION "WORLD CHANT FOR PEACE" at the Hamakua Ecology Center, sponsored by Earth Aware. An evening of music, chanting, and dancing from diverse cultures including Hawaiian, Hebrew, Buddhist, Native American, Hindu, Christian, Bengali, and more. Includes 5 course Indian dinner. Celebration is $20, food is $15. Children less. For info, reservations, directions call: 775-9083. kaitlin@earthaware.org.

December 29th "Healing with the Whales and Dolphins" Boat excursion. Bhagavan Das and Howard Wills
$40 with a vegetarian pot luck dish. 1-4 pm For reservations call 808-875-8820. For more information call Tammy at 334-3341

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE, last Friday of every month in Kona at Paleaku Gardens. Contact Sandia Siegel <mapu@ilhawaii.net> or Patti Stratton <pjstrat@hotmail.com> for information or to subscribe to monthly e-newsletter for events, classes and meetings on any island, at which there are Dances of Universal Peace being offered or teachings from any Sufi order from the Hawaii Sufi and Dance communities

HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION (PBS Ch.10) IS STARTING "PBS PROGRAM CLUB" It's like a book club but you meet to discuss a program instead of a book." Start a club in your community. 808-973-1386 for info.
This week on PBS:

Tues Dec.24 8pm The Nutcracker from the Royal Ballet; 10pm Utah Symphony & Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Wed.Dec.25 9pm The Merry Widow from the San Francisco Opera.

Thur.Dec.26 9pm Metropolital Opera "Fidelio"

Fri.Dec.27 - NOW with Bill Moyer; 10:30 Culinary expert chronicles traumatic experience with heart disease.

Sat.Dec.28 7pm Queen Elizabeth; a colorful reign; 8pm Futurewar. Inside look at future military;

Sun.Dec.29 7pm Song of the Earth with David Attenborough; 10pm Hawaiian music:Hawaii Jazz All-Stars

Mon.Dec.30 7:30 Right on the Money:Quest for Olympic Gold; 9pm Life and times of Huey Long.

TueDec.31 8pm New Years Eve all Gershwin concert live from Lincoln Center; 10pm Richard Rogers Gala at Kennedy Center.

For additional program info visit www.pbs.org.
"Publivision," the month's program guide is available by mail with a $25 contribution to PBS, PO Box 11599, Hon. HI 96828.

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PERSONALS:

Hi Jerry,Would you please post this for me?

I am looking for an ohana or apartment to rent starting in January. I am also open to a "care taking" situation. I need a place that will accept my cat! I'd like a place with a washer and dryer, in the area off of Ali'i near the Keauhou Beach Hotel or Mauka, or Capt. Cook area or Holualoa or as far north as the Palisades. I'm willing to pay $500-$600. Tigerpawpercussion@turquoise.net

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SPIRITUAL MESSAGE

We must understand the two ways we are free to follow, as we choose—the positive way or the negative way…the spiritual way or the material way. It’s our own choice--each of ours and all of ours.

You yourself are the one who must decide. You alone—and only you--can make this crucial choice. Whatever you decide is what you’ll be, to walk in honor or to dishonor your relatives. You can’t escape the consequences of your own decision. On your decision—yes, on your own personal decision—depends the fate of the entire World. We are the only species destroying Mother Earth!

You must decide. You can’t avoid it. Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind.

Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger?

My Grandmother once told me to understand that every person can have a good heart, a heart big enough to change the world! She said the Great Spirit wouldn’t give us something we couldn’t handle!

Know that you yourself are essential to this World. Believe that! Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this World.

Did you think you were put here for something less

from White Buffalo Teachings by Chief Arvol Looking Horse

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AFFIRMATION

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Satchel Paige via Dr. Marcel J. Hernandez N.D. from an article in the Dec.1-15 Hawaii Island Journal titled

"Male Menopause: the change is not just for women."

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READER FEEDBACK

Re Christmas Eve Candlelight Service:
We are participating with some friends in a sweet evening... The mood is globally engulfing.

We shall pray with you at that time and light some candles thinking 'new thoughts' with New Thought.

Love, Scarlett

Hi Jerry
This is just a short note to let you know that Colleen surprised me with a visit from my son, Josh.

We're going to spend the day with him. My brother and Colleen conspired to bring Josh over here!

What a great Christmas present. ...Anyway, we are looking forward to presenting our 'stuff' next week.

Josh and Colleen's cousin and his friend will also be there.
Please let everyone know we are looking forward to next week.
Michael and Colleen Watson (presenting "Crystal Love" at the NT Sun.Dec.29 service)

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EDITORIAL

The world is struggling to become a better place. Help it.

You are a precious petal of a beautiful flower. Water it.

God loves you. Love someone.

Bad things happen. Make good happen around you.

There is happiness as there is unhappiness. Your choice.

May you find your way on the path to your highest and your best.

Think new thoughts.

Bless you all. Happy holiday season and Happy New Year.

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                                                             Aloha till next week
                                                           Jerry Rothstein, editor
                                                             NewThoughtWeekly
                                                              jerry@turquoise.net