Category Archives: Family

A Prayer for Affliction

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Doc Arnett

May you endure
the awful cost of love
with such determination
that all reluctance is worn away.
Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged burdens, caring, comfort, faith, false religion, friendship, holiness, hope, humility, hypocrisy, love, Poetry, religiosity, righteousness, sympathy | Comments Off

Informed Choice

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Waking up day after day, looking out the dorm window and seeing nothing but miles of cornfields and fencerows is a pretty powerful reminder that you aren’t in Atlanta anymore. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching, Work | Tagged adjusting to college, atheism, big city, college adjustment, eternity, heaven, hell, Highland Community College, Kansas, northeastern Kansas, rural isolation, rural life, small town, urban | Comments Off

Talk Time

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Our connections with one another are rarely static; they tend instead to become stronger or else fade. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged connections, conversation, couples, intimacy, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, spiritual relationships, talking | Comments Off

Tough Situation, Easy Decision

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I’ve never been in the place of having to make that kind of choice. So far, my medical choices have been pretty simple. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Prayer, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cancer, choices, eternal bliss, hell, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, recovery, salvation, sarcoma, surgery, tough decisions, tumor, tumor removal, vasectomy | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged challenge, self-pity, sympathy, unfairness, unkind sympathy, victim, work advice | Comments Off

Prognosis

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Doc Arnett

A dear friend of mine recently discovered a mass in a place where masses are not supposed to be. Biopsies confirmed the presence of sarcoma. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged biopsy, cancer, malignancy, malignant, relief, sarcoma | Comments Off

Winter Pasture

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

There is something about unity
that pleases even the heart of God. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Farming, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged brome, grass, grazing, horses, survival, unity | Comments Off

The Gift

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Occasionally, though, I’ll get lucky. I’ll actually give someone something he or she doesn’t want to immediately re-gift, re-cycle or indulge his or her pyromanic tendencies. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged appreciation, choosing gifts, giving, gratitude, joy, salvation | Comments Off

A Little Off-Target

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

As we made our way to church that Sunday morning in the Chevy station wagon, Dad plowed through several drifts that were close to two feet deep. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged driving in snow, igloo, memories, playing in snow, snow storm, Winter 1960 | Comments Off

Something Beyond the Cold

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Sometimes, the changes of life turn something once held for comfort into something that feels more like affliction. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Family, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged changes, cold weather, comfort and affliction, feeding horses, freezing | Comments Off

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