Category Archives: Spiritual Contemplation

Key Words

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I knew as well as I knew my own name that he meant for me to “bring the cows up into the lot” but I was eager to get back to fishing. So, I did what he said instead of what he meant and hurried back to the pond. Not thirty minutes later I was wishing that I had done otherwise. Continue reading →

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When/When Solutions

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Many of life’s little conflicts can be resolved when people are more interested in making things work than they are in making them difficult. Working things out is always greater honor to those we love than is making a stink in their name.

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Marriage Counseling at Haven Hill

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Doc Arnett

They come to us

in the pain of betrayal and guilt,

hurt and anger,

wondering what hope there is

that a thing this broken

can be made whole again
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Damage Control

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Doc Arnett

The waters ripped chunks

the size of houses out of highways,

washed away sections of road and bridge,

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Gloom, Despair and Agony

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Doc Arnett

It’s true that stuff happens and some of it is pretty awful. Some of it is just unpleasant. And, an awful lot of it is just different from what we’d like it to be. Continue reading →

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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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