-
Archives
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
-
Meta
Category Archives: Death & Dying
Choices & Challenges
Life isn’t fair, bad stuff happens, some of it hurts, pray hard and remember others. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Prayer, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged challenges, choices, divorce, family court, grandson, hospital, judges, sick grandchild
|
Comments Off on Choices & Challenges
Answers
No matter how little or how much we accomplish in life, it’s the answers to just two questions that matters. Continue reading →
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged accomplishment, Doniphan County KS, frozen ground, Holy Spirit, meaning of life, measuring our lives, philosophy, what matters
|
Comments Off on Answers
More Than “Brother Charlie’s Wife”
One month ago today I sat in the chapel at JH Churchill funeral home in Murray, KY beginning what would be the family’s final good-by to our 99 year-old mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. The service began with a song that … Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Relationships
|
Tagged Arnett, Charlie Arnett, eulogy, Freeda Holladay, memories, preacher's wife, Ruby Arnett, Ruby Herndon Arnett
|
Comments Off on More Than “Brother Charlie’s Wife”
A Soothing Comfort
Like a gentle dawning on a peaceful day, so is the comfort of those who love us in our times of grief. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged comfort, creek, dawning, Doniphan County KS, grief, loss, Randolph Road, sympathy
|
Comments Off on A Soothing Comfort
Second Time Around
Is it complete ineptness, acute perfectionism or sheer insanity when you actually have to rehearse doing the Ice Bucket Challenge? Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Humor, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged ALS, Ben Jackson, Cynthiana KY, get it right, Ice Bucket Challenge, Lou Gehrig Disease, perfectionism, rehearsal
|
Comments Off on Second Time Around
The Ice Bucket Challenge
Having got caught early on last spring in one of those “Take the Plunge” challenges, I’ve been lying low lately, hoping to avoid the “Ice Bucket Challenge” or whatever it’s called. I thought I had made it, frankly. The likely … Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged ALS, Ben Jackson, benevolence, Cynthiana KY, Don Riley, fund raisers, helping, Ice Bucket Challenge, Lou Gehrig Disease
|
Comments Off on The Ice Bucket Challenge
A Good Race
I faced a bit of a dilemma last weekend. After getting news of my mother’s death early Thursday evening, I had to decide what to do about the mud run on Saturday for which I’d registered back in April. In … Continue reading →
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Exercise, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Sports
|
Tagged Earlham Iowa, honoring Mom, honoring parents, Mud Run, Ruby Arnett, Ruby Herndon Arnett, Warrior Dash, Warrior Dash Iowa, Winterset Iowa
|
Comments Off on A Good Race
Never Her Own Person
I can’t speak to her years of growing up, of being a teenager but I suspect that as the oldest of at least eight children, Mom probably never really had the chance to be a kid. If memory serves me … Continue reading →
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Relationships
|
Tagged eulogy, identity, own person, preacher's wife, Ruby Arnett, Ruby Herndon Arnett
|
Comments Off on Never Her Own Person
The Sharing of the Centuries
For all of those who have shared, and will continue to share in these expressions of love and mercy, I give thanks. Continue reading →
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
|
Tagged comfort, condolences, funeral, Ruby Arnett, sadness, sorrow, sympathy
|
Comments Off on The Sharing of the Centuries
What Shall I Grieve?
My mother was granted release from the prison of flesh last evening. She was 99 years old and died peacefully with some family members present. Continue reading →
Reflections by Doc Arnett 