Category Archives: Work

Good Help

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Yes, love takes a thousand forms. But it must take form of some kind. Love unshown is love unknown. Continue reading →

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Rest That Works

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Even while we may continue in the midst of work, God often brings some sort of change that eases our burden. Continue reading →

Posted in Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged Arabian horse, fencing, pasture, relief, rest, tension wire | Comments Off

Setting the Braces

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Doc Arnett

The edges blur
in this tired light
and I am ready for rest. Continue reading →

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Fencing the Horse Pasture

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Doc Arnett

The man who works with me
is not here because of pay or promise
but because of friendship, Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged digging post holes, friendship, helping, horses, pasture, postholes, power auger | Comments Off

Amish Hay

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Farmland spreads out for miles,
remarkably green in the heavy heat of August. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged alfalfa, Amish, children, christianity, God, hauling hay, hay, heat, leading, light, religion, scripture, summer | Comments Off

Temperatures nearly twenty degrees lower brought a very welcome change, particular to the masonry crew that has been working on the new porch/entry on the south side of the administration building. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged brick laying, heat, heat index, masonry work, relief, shade, stone | Comments Off

Tall Grass

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Doc Arnett

While Grandpa shoveled out a trench for the foundation block, Susan sang and painted in the shade of a pine tree. Daniel went to sleep, soothed by the sounds and motions of his mother’s nearness.
Continue reading →

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Here It Comes

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It may be that today’s heat index will indeed reach the projected one-hundred-and-twelve degree mark. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged endurance, heat, heat index, humidity, hydration, prayer, preparation, strength, summer | Comments Off

Rest from the Storm

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Sometimes the Lord brings us refreshing in the midst of our labors and sometimes we have to work on in the drenching sweat and sapping heat. Continue reading →

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Long Day

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Doc Arnett

By the time we’d worked fifteen minutes, I was drenched with sweat. Even with the sun down, the heat index was in the mid-nineties. Continue reading →

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