Category Archives: Spiritual Contemplation

Faux Painting

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Doc Arnett

Somewhere between wallpaper and the Ralph Lauren faux paint center at Home Depot, Randa and I decided to have a go at some non-traditional painting techniques and figured that our small bathroom would be just the place to practice. Continue reading →

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A Fine Memory

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Doc Arnett

It would be good, I think, to make some positive, fine association with the memory of a young person. To have some good thing so firmly entrenched in their mind that the decades of life could not undo it. To be stirred in memory from time to time with such fine associations. Continue reading →

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Turning Point

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Doc Arnett

His mind comes and goes. One moment he will be talking in complete awareness, fully comprehending and making sense and in the next he’s going to milk the cows he hasn’t been around in over forty years or drive the … Continue reading →

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A Good Example

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Doc Arnett

The neighbor rides just about every day. Some days, he only does forty miles or so. Others, he’ll go for sixty. So, he’s in pretty good shape. His body fat proportion is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of point-oh-eight or something like that. Continue reading →

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Still Back on the Road Again-Part II

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Doc Arnett

He’d reminded me of the power of simple faith and the willingness to give up everything to follow the Lord. Continue reading →

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Still Back on the Road Again-Part I

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Doc Arnett

As I came close, I saw him looking at me, thumb pointed toward the east, skin dark, hope turning to disappointment on his face. Before I was even past him, another voice began to speak in my mind, “Whatever you would that others do to you…” Continue reading →

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Changes

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Doc Arnett

Some people accumulate tremendous profits while others struggle to get unemployment claims accepted. Even in the worst of times, some people gain an advantage. Even in the best of times, some experience loss.
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