Category Archives: heaven

Dec 09 0 comments
heaven

Bricks Baked in Hell

paradise

How ironic it is that those who have the most love for their fellow humans are usually those who have gone through the most hell on earth.  Why is that?  Maybe it’s because it is impossible to deeply understand human frailty and suffering and have the resulting empathy and compassion without having gone through some of that suffering yourself.

But wait a second, wouldn’t most people say that rampaging mass murderers, rapists and violent felons of all sorts also have gone through hell on earth in some way ? Why did they turn out to be so hateful and violent when the person right next door, suffering a similar journey through hell, turned out loving and kind ?

I have no ultimate answer to that.  But I do believe we have a choice to make each time we journey through our own personal hell, in all it’s manifestations from a minor heartbreak to an ultimate fatal catastrophe.  With each trip through hell we pick up one of those bricks being baked there.  We bring it back and have a decision to make. Do we throw it at those around us, or do we use it to build something to help those around us?

What are you doing with the feelings, emotions, revelations and ideas you have gathered from your journeys through hell?


Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, owner of Napkin Dad Publishing.

Quote by me, a variation on one by Louis Scutenaire, 1905-1987, Belgian Surrealist writer and painter


Jun 02 0 comments
heaven

Heaven

 

There is no evidence proving heaven’s existence.  That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it just means you have to believe that it exists without evidence.  That is ok, many people do.  However, when you spend so much time thinking about your afterlife heaven that you can’t see and don’t contribute to your present day heaven, that is a shame.We do have proof that earth exists and that we are on its surface.  While we are here, why not take that idea of afterlife heaven and do what you can to make it appear in real life, inside you, in front of you, in the lives of others around you.

It might just help turn your ‘hell of a day’ into a ‘heaven sent’ one.

Jan 13 2 comments
Barack Obama, Gabrielle Giffords, heaven, love, Rhetoric

Rhetoric #4 – Christina Taylor Green and Rain Puddles

 

A good thing to be reminded of on a coffee cup or a T-shirt. Give it to your local politician!
Christina Taylor Green, age 9, was murdered while going to see her Congressional Representative, Gabrielle Giffords.  She was just elected to her school’s student council and so excited about being part of a new world of voting and thinking and decision making.  She saw it as pure and fun and the essence of being a helpful, good person in the world.

In his speech at the memorial the President said many things. But the passage that stuck with me, that made me tear up,  was the quote I have on the napkin.  I agree with it, don’t you?

Let’s do what we can to make our efforts in democracy something our children can be proud of.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by President Barack Obama

Mar 11 0 comments
heaven, money, Samuel Grafton, woman

>A Penny Will Hide

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A Penny Will Hide

The item of smallest value, of no consequence, something you will not bend over to
pick up, can still end up blinding you to the largest, most magnificent of thoughts if
it is taking up your mind space.

I am guilty of this all the time, of letting myself get distracted simply because the
big picture is obscured, not immediately in front of me. Instead there are time
wasters, irrelevant emails, excessive TV, trivia, chatter and a million other things
that take the attention away from what my end goal really is.

I don’t mean to say any of those things are wrong, just that they need to be kept in
their place and in their time.

What pennies are obscuring your view of the heavens?

p.s. Thanks to Stephen Covey for his list of ‘not important/not urgent’ activities as
discussed in ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Quote author – Samuel Grafton


Mar 06 1 comments
God, heaven, Luigi Pirandello, Religion, spirit

>We Are All Imprisoned By Facts

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I remember being illuminated at one time by the idea that we are not only liberated by an idea, but that the very act of verbalizing is the act of building a series of walls, within which we then must live.

Religion of course is a prime example of that. Trying to define God, Heaven, Love, Salvation, etc. allows us to contemplate the infinite, but those same definitions creates a finite limit to the ideas.

Don’t forget to visit my other blog ‘The Digital Human‘. It shows my photographic work, with explanations of how, when, and why they were created.


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