Category Archives: Relationships

Lost in Lincoln

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Doc Arnett

You could say that I was a bit apprehensive about joining our youth leaders in an overnight trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, with over forty adolescents. On the other hand, you could say that I was nearly terrified but that would be, well, at least a slight exaggeration.
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Posted in Christian Living, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching | Tagged adolescence, D2S, Dare To Share, heaven, Lincoln, multitude, Pershing Center, praise, teenagers, worship, youth rally, youth work | 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 Witness of a Greater Light

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I love the look of a winter moon,
barely past full,
just that slight slump of the middle
suggesting it is only slightly less
than the night before.
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Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged evidence, faith, full moon, God, hope, light, moon, moonshine, optimism, presence of God, sun | Comments Off

The Adopted

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Of course, I believe that all domesticated animals conspire to maximize the expenses of their owners, even going to the point of deliberately contracting various diseases for the primary, even sole purpose of making us spend money on them. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Humor, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged adopted pets, adoption, animal rescue, rescue, response, salvation, stray kitten | Comments Off

The Freezing Fog

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Doc Arnett

we must strive in the shadows of clouds
and never allow our seeing to vanquish vision.
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Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Farming, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged feeding horses, freezing fog, full moon, night scene, vision | 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

Reflections on the Prairie

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Kansas suddenly seems vast and enormous as you drive from one ridge toward another. Rolling prairie stretches out for miles in every direction. In many places you can look in every direction and see no houses, barns or much of anything else except the lines of scrub oak and cottonwood along the ditches and creeks. The sky wraps around you, boundless, as a swollen moon rises in the dusk, above endless acres of grazing range.

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Posted in Christian Living, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching, Work | Tagged college president, Cowley College, Flint Hills, forgiveness, forgiving, in-service, Kansas, Pat McAtee, prairie | 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

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