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…
Category: Encouragment
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…
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…
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…
What Makes You Smile?
What makes you smile? It’s a simple question, but one that reveals something about our heart. Smiles can be triggered by just about anything. The things that make you smile…
Seven: Dear Philadelphia
Philadelphia Pennsylvania is the home of the Liberty Bell, an important symbol of American history. The famously cracked bell was originally installed in the Pennsylvania Statehouse where the Continental Congress…
They’re Chasing You
Every now again I sit down to write and I have no ideas, no starting point, no words rattling around in my heart that just have to come out. The…
Seven: Dear Sardis
We’ve all heard expressions such as “the clothes make the man” or “dress for success” or “dress for the job you want not the job you have.” The clothes we…