Tag Archives: drought

Redirection

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Doc Arnett

For all the promise of the skies and all the signs of cloud and breeze, the longed-for rain did not come. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged attitude, Christian devotions, dealing with disappointment, drought, focus on the positive, rain | Comments Off

Hard Ground

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Sometimes we are called to a task
that we cannot quite complete
but must make a beginning,
leaving its finishing until
the soil is softer
or we are strengthened, Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged acceptance, challenge, Christian devotions, determination, driving posts, drought, effort, fencing, hard ground, heat, obstacles, persistence, setting posts, steel posts, t-posts | Comments Off

Scattered Showers

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Doc Arnett

There is in our dry times
a rather pointed disappointment
in clouds that hold the color of rain
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Posted in Christian Living, Gardening, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged blessings, Christian devotions, clouds, disappointment, drought, dry spell, dry weather, life is not fair, rain | Comments Off

Answered Prayer

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Doc Arnett

After these weeks of triple digit heat
in a summer that began in April,
this second season of drought Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Prayer, Spiritual Contemplation, Work | Tagged answered prayer, blessing, drought, heat, Kansas, praying for rain, rain, suffering | Comments Off

An Unseasonable Heat

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Doc Arnett

The grass on berm and bank
is dry and stiff,
the color of despair. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Death & Dying, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged drought, heat, refreshing, southern Indiana, summer | Comments Off

Praying for Rain on a Lord’s Day Evening

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I lie awake
a little past ten,
still praying for rain,
even while watching the lightning Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Living, Farming, Gardening, Nature, Poetry, Prayer, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged ailanthus, corn, crops, Doniphan County, drought, dry pasture, Kansas, pasture, praying for rain, rain, soybeans, spraying weeds | 3 Comments

Theology in a Dry Spell

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I pray for a long night
and a following day
of slow, seeping rain Continue reading →

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