Category Archives: Christian Living

Stormy Morning

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Doc Arnett

But, we know,
if we endure the temporary
of something other than expectation,
life has its way of turning back
to the ways that need less explanation. Continue reading →

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The Real Test

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Rather than lending the typical sympathetic ear that comes so easily to such exchanges, I instead took a different tact. Continue reading →

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A Different Road

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Doc Arnett

It is good from time to time
to turn away from our search for the spectacular
and take in the humble beauty
that spreads around us, Continue reading →

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Witness of Weakness

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Passing through our middle years, we are still occasionally surprised not to see that younger memory of ourselves when we look in the mirror. Continue reading →

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The Ancient of Days

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Beyond the bluffs and the bare-branched ridge,

in the thin cut between the over-hanging shroud

and the blackness of frozen ground,

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The Way of Things

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Last night’s mesmerizing sunset brought a splashing of reds and pinks onto the bellies of scattering clouds stretched out in fan pattern from the west. Beneath that beauty, though, the cold rolled edge of a slate blue front laid a distinct boundary of something else. Continue reading →

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Cutting Edge

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Doc Arnett

With the wind chill at minus four and a scattering of snow on the ground, I believe that I can say that January has finally found us here in the near corner of Kansas. Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Prairie

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Kansas suddenly seems vast and enormous as you drive from one ridge toward another. Rolling prairie stretches out for miles in every direction. In many places you can look in every direction and see no houses, barns or much of anything else except the lines of scrub oak and cottonwood along the ditches and creeks. The sky wraps around you, boundless, as a swollen moon rises in the dusk, above endless acres of grazing range.

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A Deliberate Caution

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Doc Arnett

a very deliberate caution

that does not allow

the seem of circumstance

to overwhelm the reality of truth.

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Unseasonable

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Doc Arnett

For the second time in a week, we reached sixty degrees yesterday. At the time of year when our normal high temperatures are in the teens, we’re looking at another week of the forties. The day started out with ominous omens. Continue reading →

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