I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.