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Category Archives: Farming
Hope For the Harm We Never Intended
Even though unintended, having knocked a baby bird from its nest led me to do my best to make things right again. Continue reading →
Posted in Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged accident, atonement, baby bird, bird nest, building fence, cardinal, fallen bird, fence, hope, unintended harm
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Digging Deep
Hand digging a hole six feet deep in sticky clay is a hard way to remember much of the most important work we do is never seen by others. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Remodeling/Construction, Spiritual Contemplation, Work
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Tagged automatic waterer, clay, digging, Drinking Post, hard work, wet clay
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The Straightening
I remember watching, and sometimes helping, my father straighten up stalks of sweet corn that had been blown over by a storm. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Farming, Gardening, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged garden, rainbow, storm, storm damage, straightening corn, sweet corn, Todd County KY
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Sowing the Seed
A pasture project draws me deep into memories of my dad and my growing up. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Farming, Gardening, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged Charlie Arnett, cultimulcher, imitation of God, imitation of parent, pasture, planting pasture, sowing grass, sowing seed, Todd County KY, working ground
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Last Monday Morning in March
The first hard glare of a fireball sun
breaks out from behind a blue-slate cloud. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged beauty, dawn, Doniphan County KS, morning, northeast Kansas, spring
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Signs and Wonders
I love the way wet snow shows which way the wind was blowing during the time of the storm–the way white holds to the windward side of fenceposts and tree trunks. How even dried thistle blooms are bearded with tufts … Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
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A Particular Moment
When you’re on the lookout for opportunities to do good, they usually show up! Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged decency, forgiveness, kindness, opportunity, sunshine
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February Feeding in Northern Kansas
A twenty percent chance of freezing rain has left a slight gray glaze on this February morning… Continue reading →
Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged caution, danger, dangerous situations, falling, feeding horses, horses, ice, slippery
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Postholes & Cottonwood Trees
Digging postholes through tree roots and living in obedient faith seem to have a few things in common… Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation, Work
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Tagged cottonwood, determination, digging postholes, faithfulness, obedience, persistence, postholes, tree roots, wooden fence
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Nursing and Cursing
In a world of thorn and thistle, it takes more than wish and whistle to make a nice lawn. Or a good life. Continue reading →
Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetic Contemplations, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation
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Tagged effort, grass, hot weather, lawn, loss, perseverance, rain, the curse
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Reflections by Doc Arnett 