Tag Archives: joy

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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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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Prayer for a Gray Morning

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Doc Arnett

On a day such as this, O Lord,
be near to me, I pray;
Keep its darkness far from my spirit. Continue reading →

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Contrition & Exultation

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Doc Arnett

How fine to see the mercy that lifts me, spares me, eases me through the deepest darkness and finds me standing in the vapor of a lifting fog, safe, anchored to Him who does not change! Continue reading →

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