Tag Archives: determination

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

Fair Warning

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Take a God like ours, a few good doctors and nurses and a bunch of people praying. Then add a woman who survived raising the four boys that she raised. Then… well, then, just don’t be too surprised at anything. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Family, Prayer, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged determination, divine intervention, faith, healing, hospital, intervention, miracle, miracles, parents, prayer, surgery | Comments Off

Home Place

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It’s the years of living and belonging, of knowing folks, of having shared some of the worst and best that life can send your way. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Family, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged determination, flooding, floods, home place, obstacles, rivers | Comments Off

Over the Hump Day

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is worthy, too, to remember that doing what is good and proper and loving is not to be dependent on the perception of progress and result. In many cases, the doing itself is the desired result.
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Posted in Remodeling/Construction, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged determination, doing good, effort, persistence, philosophy, results | Comments Off