Monthly Archives: September 2011

A Moment of Cleansing

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I am trying to remember this morning what it felt like to walk barefoot along the rambling paths of those childhood pastures in Todd County. Continue reading →

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Morning Feeding

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Doc Arnett

The whiteness of the horse shed

shows beneath the spreading pines

silhouetted against the sky

and dwarfed by the eighty-foot cottonwood

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September Blessing

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Doc Arnett

faith fresh as dew,

love as abounding as the sky,

and hope strong as the rising sun.
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A Blessing of Gray

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Doc Arnett

There’s a long, winding line of willows and cottonwood running along the river where the Wolf makes its way toward the Missouri. Continue reading →

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The Long Summer

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Doc Arnett

but eventually

even good people

can grow weary of their own petitions.

It is good

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Beyond Doctrine

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Doc Arnett

It’s hard to get used to something you always avoid and actually returning good for evil is something most of us avoid. Continue reading →

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Emancipation Proclamation

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I remember thinking in my much younger years that the Carpenter’s teaching on forgiveness was just one more example of how he required more of us than was humanly reasonable. Forgiving someone seventy times? In a day? Yeah, right.

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Winning the Trifecta

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Doc Arnett

It was twenty-two years ago today that we began to make our way through this world together. The odds, some would say, so stacked against us that there was no way we would last more than a year or two … Continue reading →

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