Category Archives: Nature

Old Burning New

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Doc Arnett

like an old wound
nursed with bitterness,
lashing out to destroy
yet another blessing.
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Praise in Disappointment

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Doc Arnett

A grateful heart sees more good in a single glance than a bitter one sees in a lifetime. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged bitterness, disappointment, gratitude, heat, rain, Thanksgiving, weather | Comments Off

A Gentle Summer

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Doc Arnett

The air had been cool and refreshing, a pleasant meshing of light breezes and pleasing shade. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged conversation, couples, summer, summer evening, talking | Comments Off

The Wind

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Those are the days that scare me,
the days when I rely most
on knowing the Hand I cannot feel, Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged depression, God, motivation, presence of God, the Spirit | Comments Off

Something of Summer

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Doc Arnett

There is something of summer
in these last few days of sun and nineties: Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cool evenings, heat, mowing pasture, summer | Comments Off

Day Fades Into Day

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Doc Arnett

An evening this lovely
could nearly draw the dead from their graves:
sunset beginning to fade from the sky, Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged breeze, conversation, day the Lord has made, locust trees, middle age, migraine, northeast Kansas, rest, sunset | Comments Off

Re-Purposing

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Doc Arnett

The old driveway was long ago covered by grass, after Highway 7 was re-routed to pass by on the south instead of the north side of the house. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged animal self-grooming, northeast Kansas, old driveway, rabbits | Comments Off

Retaining Wall

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Emerging leaves of locust flinch and dip
in the very slight breeze of this nearly still morning. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Gardening, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged boundaries, croquet lawn, dirt, new grass, protection, retaining wall, stone, stone block | Comments Off

The Insight of Experience

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Ripples of breeze stroked the thick brome, weaving patterns of silver in the early evening sun. The horses stepped along, seed stalks so tall they nearly brushed their bellies. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged Atchison County, belief, chocolate Rocky, experience, learning to ride, northeast Kansas, quarter horses, riding horses, skeptic | Comments Off

Witness of Morning

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Doc Arnett

I love these spring mornings that come just before the heat of summer: a low, soft mist hanging above the pasture in the flats beside the creek, Continue reading →

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