Tag Archives: heaven

A Familiar Story

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Doc Arnett

An unexpected visit from an old friend can have sort of a heaven-sent feel to it, can’t it? Continue reading →

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Careful Choices

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Doc Arnett

Whether thinking of gentle rain on a tin roof or the thunder of a waterfall, it is good to be deliberate in all our thinking. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged eternity, friendship, heaven, promises, rain, regrets, spring, waterfall | Comments Off

Whoop! There It Was…

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Doc Arnett

We spend a lot of time getting ready for things that seem to be over way too soon: weddings, parties, big meals… heaven, though, won’t be that way… Continue reading →

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Joy in the Mountains-Part II

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Doc Arnett

The starter, not wanting to burden some fit, well-prepared young group, tells me, “Just find a team of three people your age and run with them.” Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Exercise, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Sports | Tagged 5K, age, Boone NC, competing, conditioning, Debee Arnett, endurance, Freeda Holladay, Harold Arnett, heaven, Mountaineer Mud Run, Mud Run, obstacle course, Patsy Watson, Paul Arnett, rest, training, youth | Comments Off

A Mighty Wind

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Doc Arnett

There’s something about such a fine, sudden change that brings cheer and hope. It sends a sense that even the deepest cold can be broken by something stronger, something better. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged chinook, heaven, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, hope, promise, reassurance, reminders, severe cold, warm wind, winter storm | Comments Off

Incomprehensible

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Doc Arnett

The vastness of the universe
reflected
in a single drop of dew
blazing like the sun Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged God's love, heaven, immortality, Jesus, love, mercy, value, worth | Comments Off

A Dark Blue Dawning

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Doc Arnett

The sky has the look of storm to it this morning, a forming in the night of dark shapes and deep shadows. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged comfort, deliverance, God's care, God's love, God's presence, heaven, paradise, protection, security, storm | Comments Off

Informed Choice

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Waking up day after day, looking out the dorm window and seeing nothing but miles of cornfields and fencerows is a pretty powerful reminder that you aren’t in Atlanta anymore. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching, Work | Tagged adjusting to college, atheism, big city, college adjustment, eternity, heaven, hell, Highland Community College, Kansas, northeastern Kansas, rural isolation, rural life, small town, urban | Comments Off

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

Look Over There

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Doc Arnett

When we are made no longer subject to the nuances of this world and its ways and when all that causes death and decay has been done away, in that Day, we will know fully the joy that we have only tasted, that which stays.
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Posted in Aging, Death & Dying, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged beauty, change, glory, heaven, hereafter, mortality, paradise, rainbow | Comments Off