Tag Archives: joy

Sharing in Chicago

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Doc Arnett

We weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, sometimes in spaces so close it seems as if the same voice… Continue reading →

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Filling the Empty Spaces

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Doc Arnett

To celebrate our blessings even while acknowledging our sorrows and losses is a good and loving way of honoring all those that we love. Continue reading →

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Green Pastures

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Doc Arnett

Have you ever felt as happy as a horse in new pasture? Well, good for you!! Could others tell? Then, double-good! Continue reading →

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A Difficult Phrasing

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Doc Arnett

We live in a world of both blessing and cursing. Joy and heartache often tumble in on each other. One grandchild is born, another, yet unborn, dies. Continue reading →

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Rain Dance

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Doc Arnett

For such a rain as this, we should offer sacrifices in the temple.
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Fruit of the Spirit

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Doc Arnett

To sincerely desire and work for the good of others
To celebrate and honor the things that are truly good
To seek and promote that which builds relationship with all
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The Gift

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

Occasionally, though, I’ll get lucky. I’ll actually give someone something he or she doesn’t want to immediately re-gift, re-cycle or indulge his or her pyromanic tendencies. Continue reading →

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Emancipation Proclamation

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Doc Arnett

I remember thinking in my much younger years that the Carpenter’s teaching on forgiveness was just one more example of how he required more of us than was humanly reasonable. Forgiving someone seventy times? In a day? Yeah, right.

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Summer Evening

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Doc Arnett

And in these long years since then, that moment when I rose up from the waters, pure and cleansed, every sin purged from God’s great memory, there has not been another moment even remotely like that one. Everything that I was, could be and am becoming, exploded and compressed within me in the same pulse. Continue reading →

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Prayer for a Gray Morning

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Doc Arnett

On a day such as this, O Lord,
be near to me, I pray;
Keep its darkness far from my spirit. Continue reading →

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