Tag Archives: hope

Looking Toward Day

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Inconvenience is so much less trying than tragedy and aggravation easier to negotiate than catastrophe.
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Prayer for Today

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Doc Arnett

May your faith be replenished
by him who does not waver.
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A Slow Planting

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Doc Arnett

This body is not the substance of our immortality but is rather its seed. And no seed can bear its fruit until it has been planted. Continue reading →

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Easing Over

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Doc Arnett

It is never easy to let go, to know that the last conversation upon this earth has been had. Continue reading →

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The Morel of the Story-Part I

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Doc Arnett

Without a determined faith and a confident hope, it’s kind of hard to put in the kind of work that leads to good results.
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Funny thing about hot bread in the oven when you open the back door on a cool, rainy evening after a long day at the office (or anywhere else): that aroma alone can make you think that there is good left in the world and that you might even get a piece of it. Continue reading →

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A Warming Light

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Doc Arnett

From these who overcame by the Word, who endured all things, who surrendered their souls to him who had given them, who Continue reading →

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Whether Forecast

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Doc Arnett

What is clear, though, is that God’s love and mercy, his faithfulness, his leading and calling, his provision and training are not dependent upon climate patterns, not altered by Arctic blasts nor stalled out fronts. 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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Contrition & Exultation

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Doc Arnett

How fine to see the mercy that lifts me, spares me, eases me through the deepest darkness and finds me standing in the vapor of a lifting fog, safe, anchored to Him who does not change! Continue reading →

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