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Cold Days and the Way of Faith

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Doc Arnett

These single digit temps cleaning up the horse pen remind me of bitter cold mornings in an unheated milk barn sixty-five years ago… and of how faith sustains us through all things. Continue reading →

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Against the Bitter Cold

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Doc Arnett

A double-digit below zero wind chill doesn’t remove duty and obligation… but certainly can affect the way we go about them! Continue reading →

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A New Coat on a Cold Day

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Doc Arnett

A young black man in a tattered jacket on a bitterly cold day turns a chance encounter into a deeper contemplation on kindness. Continue reading →

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A Pale Sun

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Doc Arnett

It doesn’t take much wind
to put an ache in your hands
when the temperature lands
in the area of minus double-digits: Continue reading →

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