Tag Archives: sunset

Feeding After the Storm

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Doc Arnett

Evening has a special peace–and beauty–after a storm has passed. Continue reading →

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A Disturbing Light

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Doc Arnett

A small weather phenomenon from a passing storm completely transformed the colors all around us last evening. Continue reading →

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Heading Home

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Doc Arnett

As I drive south from Highland,
I see more than a hint
of coming cold
in the long flat of gray
spreading all the way east to Troy. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cold front, Hiawatha KS, Highland KS, northeastern Kansas, skies, sleeping, sunset, Troy KS, warmth, wife | Comments Off

Day Fades Into Day

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Doc Arnett

An evening this lovely
could nearly draw the dead from their graves:
sunset beginning to fade from the sky, Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged breeze, conversation, day the Lord has made, locust trees, middle age, migraine, northeast Kansas, rest, sunset | Comments Off

Some Mighty Fine Leftovers

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Doc Arnett

I am standing at the edge
of my neighbors’ field,
looking west at the colored ending
of the last Lord’s Day in November,
eating the last piece of apple pie. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Family, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged apple pie, clouds, leftovers, sunset, Thanksgiving | Comments Off

A Gentle Calling

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Doc Arnett

long threads of red and pink
bleed along the lines of clouds,
incredibly smooth streaks low to the earth,
streaming northward above the thin strip of clearing. Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Relationships, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged clouds, dining out, evidence of God, friends, Missouri, Missouri River, northeast Kansas, sky, St. Joseph, storms, sunset, testimony, vivid description, Wathena | Comments Off

The Way of Things

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Last night’s mesmerizing sunset brought a splashing of reds and pinks onto the bellies of scattering clouds stretched out in fan pattern from the west. Beneath that beauty, though, the cold rolled edge of a slate blue front laid a distinct boundary of something else. Continue reading →

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The Morning After

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Doc Arnett

My son, Sam, sits on the big recliner in the corner of the living room, holding Levi. He is the youngest of three, not yet three months old. His lips curl open, a ready smile in response to a gentle finger nudging his throat or cheeks. Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Evening

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Doc Arnett

In my fifty-plus years of sunsets and shadows, I’ve never seen a more impressive play of light and tone, spectacular in its subtleness. Continue reading →

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Better than Predicted

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Doc Arnett

Whenever we have a choice about a day, a friend or the ending of some shared journey, we ought to choose to rehearse the memory that makes for better instead of worse.
Continue reading →

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