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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The Real Test
Rather than lending the typical sympathetic ear that comes so easily to such exchanges, I instead took a different tact. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work
Tagged challenge, self-pity, sympathy, unfairness, unkind sympathy, victim, work advice
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A Different Road
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
Posted in Christian Living, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged beauty, gentleness, presence of Christ, quiet, spectacular, sunrise
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Getting Along
Every now and then, I do something strange. Pick up a hitchhiker, speak to someone I don’t know, stuff like that. In fact, I’ve been doing weird stuff for so long now, it’s about to get to where strange is … Continue reading
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The Ancient of Days
Beyond the bluffs and the bare-branched ridge,
in the thin cut between the over-hanging shroud
and the blackness of frozen ground,
Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged feeding horses, hope, presence of God, reassurance, sunrise, winter sky
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The Way of Things
Last night’s mesmerizing sunset brought a splashing of reds and pinks onto the bellies of scattering clouds stretched out in fan pattern from the west. Beneath that beauty, though, the cold rolled edge of a slate blue front laid a distinct boundary of something else. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged attitude, feeding horses, freezing, righeous living, sunset
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Cutting Edge
With the wind chill at minus four and a scattering of snow on the ground, I believe that I can say that January has finally found us here in the near corner of Kansas. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Work
Tagged choices, cold, horses, wind chill, wisdom
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Reflections on the Prairie
Kansas suddenly seems vast and enormous as you drive from one ridge toward another. Rolling prairie stretches out for miles in every direction. In many places you can look in every direction and see no houses, barns or much of anything else except the lines of scrub oak and cottonwood along the ditches and creeks. The sky wraps around you, boundless, as a swollen moon rises in the dusk, above endless acres of grazing range.
Posted in Christian Living, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching, Work
Tagged college president, Cowley College, Flint Hills, forgiveness, forgiving, in-service, Kansas, Pat McAtee, prairie
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A Deliberate Caution
a very deliberate caution
that does not allow
the seem of circumstance
to overwhelm the reality of truth.
Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged feeding horses, freezing, frozen water hose, winter
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Unseasonable
For the second time in a week, we reached sixty degrees yesterday. At the time of year when our normal high temperatures are in the teens, we’re looking at another week of the forties. The day started out with ominous omens. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation
Tagged budding, fruit trees, January, stinkbugs, timely, warm weather
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Reflections by Doc Arnett 