The Daughters of Hope – Anger Week #4

by | Aug 18, 2011 | Anger - 2011, Augustine | 0 comments

 I HOPE I got my days right!  Today should be #4 of Anger Week.

If you want to have HOPE, make sure you know how to raise both ANGER and COURAGE to be equals.  
Anger if left to run riot will find fault with everything and everybody but never feel the need or ability to do anything about it.  
Courage left to dominate will be indiscriminate and undisciplined in how she helps others.  
But if they are raised as equals they will help each other make something real and good happen in the world, and really that’s our HOPE after all, right?

 

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Augustine, 354 CE – 430 CE, Early church father, Bishop of Hippo (present day Annaba, Algeria), author of ‘Confessions’ and ‘City of God’.

>Pride

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Augustine | 0 comments

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A vintage napkin from 2004.  I put this in my daughter’s lunch.

I am not sure I agree with this, do you?  I like pride, I just think you have take it for what it is. It’s a type of compliment, either to yourself or to another.  If you think it, acknowledge it then there isn’t much more to do with it. Pride doesn’t achieve anything, it just sits there.  If you understand that is its place then I don’t think it is destructive.


What do you think?


Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily


Quote by Saint Augustine, 454 AD – 430 AD, Bishop of Hippo


Other Sins – updated 2018

by | May 15, 2010 | Augustine, Sin and Science - 2012 | 2 comments

A vintage drawing from 2004
I don’t believe this.
I understand the idea that being unrealistically prideful can make one egotistical or make one think they are better than others.  But the truth is we constantly encourage our children, friends, family members to be proud of themselves for great accomplishment.  I want my children to be proud and I think it is good that they are when they do something worthy. I don’t believe acting on one hand like pride is bad while on the other pride is normal and healthy does anything to help them successfully integrate their actions and motives.
What do you think?

Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman

“Other sins find themselves in evil deeds, pride finds itself in good ones, but both destroy.” – Augustine, 354-430, early christian father, Bishop of Hippo

Those Who Do Not Travel – updated 2017

by | Jul 8, 2009 | Augustine, Travel | 0 comments

This is a week long series on travel, a result of my thoughts from my
recent vacation to Cape Cod and Boston over the 4th of July week.

It’s very easy in the current age to ‘see’ the world via photographs, video,
internet and words. It is easy to think you are exposed to it all. And in some
ways you are.

But go to that same place you have seen on TV and you quickly
realize how much more you experience in person. It is the air, the light, the
people, the accents, the birds, the animals, the manners, the food, the sidewalks,
the trees, the smells, the buildings, the events.

They all add up to the experience of knowing another place and reading more of
the book.

Go somewhere and really notice.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine – church father, 354-430 AD