Noah’s Ark Blog
Forgiveness III
I'm ready to dive into the murkier stuff. I hope you’ll accompany me. This will be easier if we’re all together. (Make sure you’ve read Forgiveness I and II first.) Recently I decided to rewrite “The Story of Me.” This is the narrative we tell people as they’re...
Diligence
Diligence – giving the degree of care required in a given situation. As I write this, students at Penn State University are reeling from the announcement that the Board of Trustees has fired Joe Paterno, legendary head football coach, and Graham Spanier, University...
Hope
This is a controversial quality, one of the more difficult topics I’ve attempted. Consider that the philosopher Frederick Nietzsche said “Hope is the worst of evils for it prolongs the torment of man.” Most of us understand where Nietzsche was coming from with this...
Serenity
The lake in this photo isn't always an image of Serenity. A few days before I snapped this shot, it had white caps and the sky was black as a hurricane passed through. Nature, like our internal landscape, has moods. Unlike Nature, we can be agents of change when it...
Reality
“What do you think of reality?" “I’m against it. I’m completely against it." Eckhart Tolle...
LOVE
Love “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would...
Empathy
Empathy - Understanding and entering into another’s feelings I’ve finished what I think is an important book, The Science of Evil, by Simon Baron-Cohen (see Resources). One person's comment was “I’d run as fast as I can from that book.” My loved ones have noticed that...
Patience
Patience “Lord give me Patience, and give it to me now.” This represents the problem that most of us have with Patience. I’m not talking about the patience required to wait for the light to turn green. Get over it. The Patience that’s really a challenge is waiting for...
Melancholy
Melancholy This is a rather old fashioned word for “low spirits.” It’s sometimes used as a synonym for depression. It’s not my intent to discuss depression at this time. Melancholy is, in my experience, a milder, temporary condition. Like depression, it can come on...