February 2020 - Heidi Kortman

Purest Fiction: A Parade and a Hero

February 28, 2020Heidi KortmanFiction for Fridaypart Twelve, Purest Fiction, Ruarri, serial, Shona, short story3 Comments

Purest Fiction: A Parade and a Hero

As the author staggered downhill under her load, a turquoise convertible rolled by. She grinned, having taken childhood trips in an identical car.
One block from her apartment, a city worker placed sawhorse barricades across the street. The turquoise convertible idled behind them, and the dark-haired driver leaned out and spoke to the city employee. Then he shrugged, and turned toward his passenger. The redheaded woman braided her long hair.
She wasn’t near enough to make out their conversation, but the mystery partially resolved itself when the author heard a marching band. After a deep breath, she stepped forward. A parade was nothing to cause worry. It’d hold the attention of everyone on the street. As she approached the corner, the author paused for a few moments.

How Does Living Thankfully for Faith Look?

February 27, 2020Heidi KortmanThursday Thanksemails, Living Thankfully for Faith, trustful waiting5 Comments

How does living thankfully for faith look? Let’s go back to the roots of the word faith and see if a description emerges. In the previous blog post, I stated that the root words from which the English word faith springs, mean trust, and wait. Therefore, trustful waiting. It’s obvious enough from those two words

I’m Guest Blogging this Morning

February 27, 2020Heidi KortmanGuest Blogs4 Comments

I’m Guest Blogging this Morning on JourneystoJoy Guest Blog Post My friend Joy Avery Melville asked me to take a guest blog spot on her unusual blog. There, I tell the story of a couple of my characters before the story you’ll find in the anthology Heartland Treasures, which is available in Kindle and Paperback

Faith is God’s Multi-purpose Gift

February 25, 2020Heidi KortmanTuesday Tellscarabiner, Faith multi-purpose gift6 Comments

Faith is God’s multi-purpose gift to those he calls. I could logically have begun this sequence of blog posts with faith, but I decided at the time to go through the gifts with complicated-sounding names like Sanctification first. The entire Trinity is involved. Faith is God’s multi-purpose gift, and it comes from the Father, by

Purest Fiction: Morning Coffee

February 21, 2020Heidi KortmanFiction for Fridaypart Eleven, Purest Fiction, serial, short story1 Comment

Purest Fiction: Morning Coffee

A semi-tractor in the street released its brakes.
The frantic author shoved at the scratchy wool blanket, then sat, bewildered.
Because the windows had no shades, she hustled into the tiny bathroom. It was unsatisfactory to scrub at the chipped sink, and she longed for her deep tub.

Giving Thanks for Self-control

February 20, 2020Heidi KortmanThursday ThanksGiving thanks, moles, self-control6 Comments

Giving thanks for self-control, even when it feels forced and obligatory, is accomplishing two mundane and obvious things tonight. First, it means I’m keeping my vow to be a thankful person, and not one who whines. Thanksgiving for other things is easier, and happier, but for now, this will do. The second obvious and mundane

The Holy Spirit’s Ninth Gift is Self-control

February 18, 2020Heidi KortmanTuesday TellsHoly Spirit, ninth gift, self-control6 Comments

The Holy Spirit’s ninth gift is self-control, and if ever there was a gift most people would rather re-gift, this could be it. Webster’s Dictionary defines it as: restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions, or desires. Television talk shows, news videos and social media posts give ample evidence of how much more most of

Purest Fiction: Offensive Apostrophe

February 14, 2020Heidi KortmanFiction for Fridaypart Ten, Purest Fiction, serial, short story1 Comment

Purest Fiction: Offensive Apostrophe

When she walked back to the bureau and delved in the suitcase for her bag of pens and pencils, she scraped her knuckles on her “souvenirs.” Despite what she’d told Ed O’Connor, there were rocks in her luggage. A palm-sized lump of pink and gray granite came from the Continental Divide.
One dark jaggedly fractured chunk of stone commemorated a trip to an island in Lake Huron. When she pulled out the flattest fragment, picked up on Mount Washington, mica glared in the harsh light. Would she add Pennsylvania bluestone?

Be Thankful for God’s Gentleness

February 13, 2020Heidi KortmanThursday Thanksfierce things, gentle whisper, Thankful for Gentleness6 Comments

BeThankful for God’s Gentleness Today let’s take time to be thankful for gentleness, specifically God’s gentleness. After Elijah defeated Jezebel’s Baal prophets and priests at Mt. Carmel, he fled her wrathful threats to murder him. His fear took over, and he experienced depression, and something similar to burnout. We aren’t usually fleeing death threats, but

The Holy Spirit’s Eighth Gift is Gentleness

February 11, 2020Heidi KortmanTuesday Tellseighth gift, gentleness, Holy Spirit3 Comments

The Holy Spirit’s eighth gift is gentleness. In English, gentleness is the noun form of the adjective gentle. It’s defined as the quality or state of being gentle; especially displaying mildness of manner or disposition. At first glance that probably doesn’t look too appealing or effective in today’s culture. It seems the only way to

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