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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Choices
In the dark of this morning’s dawning, I hold to these few minutes of quietness. Continue reading
The Indwelling
I step across the last frozen stones,
open the back door,
welcoming the warmth that lives within,
Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged cold, Holy Spirit, indwelling, snow, warmth, winter
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Images of Evil
I have seen evil that comes sweeping in like an enraged lion, claws slashing, fangs gnashing: snarling, leaping, twisting, devouring in an insatiable blood lust. Continue reading
A Better Place
There’s just something about a wind chill in the double digits below zero that makes you feel alive! Continue reading
Priorities
At least every now and then, just being together ought to move up to the top of the Next Actions List.
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Have You Heard the Ice Bells?
Instead of the heavy, thick ice I expected, the formations were more like crystal bells, hollow and incredibly thin and fragile. Continue reading
Elijah Daniel Switzer
I hold Daniel a while longer, caressing him and these few moments, looking at him and cradling him in ways that my father never held my children. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged baby, family, father, grandchild, grandson, tenderness
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Contrition & Exultation
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
Posted in Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged depression, despondency, gloom, grace, hope, joy, mercy
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Bowl Games
Somehow, it has always seemed that fathers need more forgiveness than grandfathers. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Relationships
Tagged family, fathers, grandchildren, grandfathers, Thanksgiving
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Reflections by Doc Arnett 