Category Archives: Farming

The Creek Spring

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Love held too long inside, like water stored too long in an old barrel, becomes something other than what was given. Something not to be shared. We are meant to be springs, not cisterns. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cistern, creek, giving, love, old spring, refreshing, sharing, water | Comments Off

Burn Pile

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Five days later, the stump is still burning,
a slow smoldering of substance
still enough like wood to hold fire. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Resurrection/Return, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged burning, diesel, old stump, old trees, renewal, resurrection, transformation | Comments Off

Scattered Showers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Doc Arnett

For a while the wind stirred the dance of branches, a swishing and swaying of muted greens seen through the screen of the second story window. It seemed we would surely have rain but none came. The storm slid further to the north and east and we found not the least traces of darkened earth or gravel, not even a gathering on the windshields of the car and truck parked outside. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged blessings, fields, hay, horses, lightning, pastures, rain, self-pity, showers, thunderstorms | Comments Off

Summer Snow

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Doc Arnett

These almost-lighter-than-air seeds of the cottonwood tree drift away, showing no sign of breeze. For four days or longer, there has been no stirring of the air, no fluttering of leaves. The seeds slide slowly to the earth in the oppressive heat, catch against an edge of turf, old posts or planks, whatever disrupts the smooth edge of the earth.

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Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation, Teaching, Work | Tagged cottonwood, cottonwood seeds, determination, drifts, faith, harvest, odds, persistence, planting, snow, summer | Comments Off

A Very Convenient Truth

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I pretty much knew as soon as I walked up to the sabino gelding that he would be going home with us. It wasn’t that he indeed looked very much like the pictures Shelley had posted on Craigslist but that certainly didn’t hurt. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged coincidence, horse, horse color, horse name, horses, inspiration, Missouri Foxtrotter, Moses, names, naming horse, sabino, sabino gelding, Tennesse Walker | Comments Off

Later than Expected

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Well, I’d have to say the man sounded like he knew where he lived and the best way for me to get there from where I was. Sounded like he knew. As it turned out, I’m a bit less convinced of that now than I was yesterday evening.

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Posted in Farming, Humor, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged Bible, buying, Craigslist, directions, disk, end of the world, farm implements, long way around, maps, predictions, reading Bible | Comments Off

Adjustment

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Doc Arnett

We could hear Tango still whinnying as the truck and trailer disappeared around the curve a quarter-mile away. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged Arabian, Arabian horse, gelding, horse training, pain, sadness, separation | Comments Off

Extending the Pasture

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Doc Arnett

We work along the eastern edge, cutting back the branches and bushes that have pushed out into the field. With one horse and good rains, this small pasture would be large enough. But in the strange dry and chill of … Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged farming, fence, geldings, grazing, horses, pasture, sin, spirituality, stewardship | Comments Off

Spring Floods

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Doc Arnett

The river runs heavy,

dark and angry along the levee, Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged destruction, farmland, flooding, levee, levee breach, rain, rivers, spring floods | Comments Off

A Quiet Praise

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Doc Arnett

White stems of frost mark the whiskers of the horse around his nose where moist breath has frozen to the nearest available condensing point. He nickers as I walk along the snow-crusted grass path to the shed.

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Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged Arabian horse, beauty, chores, cold, Kansas, nature, peace, snow, sunrise | Comments Off

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