Category Archives: Relationships

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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Beyond Doctrine

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Doc Arnett

It’s hard to get used to something you always avoid and actually returning good for evil is something most of us avoid. Continue reading →

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Emancipation Proclamation

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I remember thinking in my much younger years that the Carpenter’s teaching on forgiveness was just one more example of how he required more of us than was humanly reasonable. Forgiving someone seventy times? In a day? Yeah, right.

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Winning the Trifecta

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Doc Arnett

It was twenty-two years ago today that we began to make our way through this world together. The odds, some would say, so stacked against us that there was no way we would last more than a year or two … Continue reading →

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August Morning

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Such dews as this

seem to come only in the heat of summer,
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Bad Seed

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Doc Arnett

There are things that we all do in the closed circle of siblings or spouse or children that we keep hidden from the world. At least, we hope that they remain hidden. This curtain of secrecy is a part of the intimacy of family. It is always natural and often desirable. Continue reading →

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Summer Evening

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

And in these long years since then, that moment when I rose up from the waters, pure and cleansed, every sin purged from God’s great memory, there has not been another moment even remotely like that one. Everything that I was, could be and am becoming, exploded and compressed within me in the same pulse. Continue reading →

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