Category Archives: Spiritual Contemplation

Prayer & Prophecy

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Doc Arnett

In this dream an older man walks by me, a man whose last words before this dream were “I never want to see you or hear from you again.” Continue reading →

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Warm Front

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Doc Arnett

If a single day of sunshine can be such a welcome thing and bring such a fine change to hearts and spirits, consider how refreshing kind words and thoughtful actions must be to those lives lost in winter’s long shadow.
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Signs of the Lack of Time

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Doc Arnett

But eventually, everything not cared for, not attended to, not nourished, shows the signs of lack.
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Hairnets & Plastic Gloves

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is the raw eloquence of sincere actions that touches the hearts of others.
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Hard Times

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Doc Arnett

There’s a common saying that we don’t know what we’d do until we’re put into a particular situation. Perhaps we might also say that we don’t know what we would refuse to do, either. Continue reading →

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A Warming Light

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Doc Arnett

From these who overcame by the Word, who endured all things, who surrendered their souls to him who had given them, who Continue reading →

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Of Beauty and Pain

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Doc Arnett

The trace of each ripple of earth can be found in those soundings of snow, crusted now by the melt of day and light, frozen again in the cold of night. Continue reading →

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The After-Cold

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Doc Arnett

In the soul stung by life’s harsh edge, the heart closed against the killing frost, it takes a surrendering of what is lost before the healing touch can fill the darkness and bring Light. Continue reading →

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Teammates

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Doc Arnett

I have known the fear and failure of slipping back into the slime of old emotions and actions, those born of the darkness that pulls me back toward destruction. Continue reading →

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January Night

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Doc Arnett

On such a night as this,
it is good to have a place
beyond the wind’s lancet,
a place where love is strong.
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