Real Fruit: Faithfulness
What picture would you use to describe faithfulness? I came up with so many that I couldn’t choose just one to kick off this article on the fruit of faithfulness.…
Author: Dale Heinold
Sally’s Horse – Faithfulness
Sally’s first ride on the carousel in Humboldt Park was for her third birthday, June 12th, 1937. It was a real family affair with Mom, Dad, grandmas, grandpas and all…
Accepted!
Belonging is important. We all want to belong, to be a part, to be accepted by someone or some group. The groups we belong to define us. We take on…
Real Fruit: Gentleness
What do these images have in common? A shepherd gently carrying a lamb back to its mother. A mother cradling a newborn for the first time. A gardener carefully working…
The Nurse’s Hat
My journey in writing began in earnest on a December evening in 2003. Betty and I had stopped for supper at Applebee’s after some Christmas shopping. As I looked at…
Better Than Anything
Life can be nasty at times. Things come our way that seems unfair and undeserved. We read God’s promises and wonder what we did wrong. This is more than just…
Real Fruit: Self-Control
I was a remote control. Let me grow nostalgic for a bit. I remember many evenings when Dad would kick back in his Lay-Z-Boy recliner, Mom would sit on the…
Patricia’s Date
My journey in writing began in earnest on a December evening in 2003. Betty and I had stopped for supper at Applebee’s after some Christmas shopping. As I looked at…
Just Say Yes
The man had been ill a long time. Thirty-eight years in fact. He had tried everything. Hoped that one-day a doctor, a priest, or someone would know how to fix…
Real Fruit: Introduction
Betty has been bugging me for some time to publish nine short stories based on the nine fruit of the Spirit. Those stories were the first fruits of what God…
A Fresh Wind
Ever been prayed for by a platypus? I have been. Well, not a real platypus, but a nine-year-old boy wearing a t-shirt with the face of a platypus from a…
Seven: Dear Laodicea
At a nearby town, there is a spring that people drive for miles to draw from. To drink that water straight out of the ground is nearly impossible since it…