The Eagles, http://www.eaglesband.com/, recorded a song in the ‘70s called The Last Resort. A very powerful song that is still true today. I’m doing this from memory and iTunes, http://www.itunes.com/ , the last verse talks about sailing to Maui.
“We can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina, just like the missionaries did, so many years ago. They even brought a neon sign that says, ‘Jesus is Coming’, brought the white man’s burden down, brought the white man’s reign. We’ll provide the grand design of what is yours and what is mine. There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here, to satisfy our endless needs, and justify our bloody deeds, in the name of destiny and in the name of God. And you can see them there, on Sunday morning, stand up and sing about, what it’s like up there. They call it paradise, I don’t know why, call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.”
That neon sign is still on top of a church in Lahaina. We need to be very careful what true beauty and spirit we destroy with our own insatiable desire to conquer and instill our own agenda.
“We can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina, just like the missionaries did, so many years ago. They even brought a neon sign that says, ‘Jesus is Coming’, brought the white man’s burden down, brought the white man’s reign. We’ll provide the grand design of what is yours and what is mine. There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here, to satisfy our endless needs, and justify our bloody deeds, in the name of destiny and in the name of God. And you can see them there, on Sunday morning, stand up and sing about, what it’s like up there. They call it paradise, I don’t know why, call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.”
That neon sign is still on top of a church in Lahaina. We need to be very careful what true beauty and spirit we destroy with our own insatiable desire to conquer and instill our own agenda.
Hal Taylor
is VP of Intl. Business and Live Events as well as certified YCG Practitioner and Life Coach. He currently has helped to deliver The Desktop Life Coach, an online journal for assisting coaches and their clients in accomplishing goals and rising to their full potential.
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