Tag Archives: beauty

Mosaics

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Doc Arnett

If we want to give and gain greater satisfaction in the workplace, we need to make time and place for friendships to form. Continue reading →

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For a Daughter, Five Hundred Miles Away

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Doc Arnett

How I wish that the peace of this night
could somehow soothe your heart
in the midst of this agony of betrayal and loss; Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged beauty, comfort, Comforter, daughter, divorce, father, full moon, Holy Spirit, moon, night, pain, peace, prayer | Comments Off

Witness of Morning

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Doc Arnett

I love these spring mornings that come just before the heat of summer: a low, soft mist hanging above the pasture in the flats beside the creek, Continue reading →

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It was surreal to see the white clustered shapes of Bradford Pears nearly disappear against the sudden backdrop of snow. Fallow fields showed pure white. The northern edges of bare-branched trees starked white-boned sketches against the hills. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged alternate perception, appreciation, beauty, contrary, late snow, Midwest, snow in April, snow storm, unpopular | Comments Off

The Least Slice

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Doc Arnett

I know that soon,
a wide slate darkness
will cover the sky
and the tender blush of a rising sun
will fade. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged attitude, beauty, choice, darkness, focus on the positive, life, moon, optimism, sky | Comments Off

Winter Invocation

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Doc Arnett

May the beauty of a rising sun
reflected in the thin edges
of a long low cloud just above the ridge
brighten your smile this morning. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged beauty, blessing, comfort, grace, mercy, peace, sunrise | Comments Off

An Altar of Light

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Doc Arnett

There are prayers
spoken through open eyes,
praises given through lifted hearts, Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged adoration, adoration of God, beauty, creation, Creator, dawn, feeding horses, foxtrotter, God, morning sky, nature, rural scene, worship | Comments Off

A Closer Witness

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Doc Arnett

There is no sense of sky this morning,
just a low-lying grayness that closes in,
shutting off the sense of anything
beyond the near bluffs and hills
just past the creek. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged beauty, dew on rose, northeast Kansas, optimism, perspective, rain, raindrops on a rose, rainy morning, roses, sadness, seeing what is near | Comments Off

A Strong Wind

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Here in the Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska corner of Kansas, it is a rare day that the wind does not blow. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged beauty, bent trees, deception, novelty, phiolosophy, trash, trees, wind, windblown trees | Comments Off

A Different Road

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Doc Arnett

It is good from time to time
to turn away from our search for the spectacular
and take in the humble beauty
that spreads around us, Continue reading →

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