Category Archives: Relationships

The Work of Others

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Doc Arnett

I was glad, suddenly, that I wasn’t one of those whose lot in life doesn’t provide for their day’s work to be done in the shelter of warm walls and steady heat. Continue reading →

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Special Assignment

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Doc Arnett

For today, think of one person for whom you rarely, perhaps never, pray. It could be someone you barely know or someone you know well. Continue reading →

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The Opportunity of Consequence

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It’s a little tricky, sometimes, trying to keep our footing and to keep doing the work we need to do. The extra effort of a stubborn nail, an awkward angle and slick dust underfoot can send us suddenly where we hadn’t planned to go. Continue reading →

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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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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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