Tag Archives: choices

Compromise

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Doc Arnett

At ninety,
when his kidneys began to fail,
he decided he was tired of the fighting,
tired of the tooth and nail,
tired of what it takes
to hold on to this world. Continue reading →

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Choices Come Home

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Doc Arnett

The few inches of snow
I chose not to shove or shovel
from the driveway three weeks ago
has turned into a hard-packed ice sheath, Continue reading →

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I guess there aren’t too many of us who haven’t played the “What If?” game a time or two. What if I’d taken the other job? What if I’d moved back there? The game can be anywhere from interesting to torturing, amusing to masochistic. Continue reading →

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Under the Curse

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I guess that at least in some ways, it seems easier to blame God for the messes we find ourselves in rather than to accept that responsibility ourselves. Continue reading →

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Tough Situation, Easy Decision

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I’ve never been in the place of having to make that kind of choice. So far, my medical choices have been pretty simple. Continue reading →

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Cutting Edge

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Doc Arnett

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 →

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Hard Times

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Doc Arnett

There’s a common saying that we don’t know what we’d do until we’re put into a particular situation. Perhaps we might also say that we don’t know what we would refuse to do, either. Continue reading →

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Choices

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Doc Arnett

In the dark of this morning’s dawning, I hold to these few minutes of quietness. Continue reading →

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A Few Good Things

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Doc Arnett

Ought not a Christian nation
be the most humble on the face of the earth? Continue reading →

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It Is Well

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Doc Arnett

In the midst of life’s deepest griefs, in the moment of our greatest fears, in the time of trials and testings, in the unbounded joy of greatest blessing and in the rut-running routine of life in between all those, choices come to us. Continue reading →

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