by Don Freeman | Jan 30, 2025 | Devotional
Getting away from the East Coast and being immersed in a Southwestern, desert landscape evokes a strange, exotic feeling in me. It’s a different beauty from my normal to be sure. It isn’t lush and green. The air isn’t humid, making the sky hazily muted. It is arid,...
by Don Freeman | Jan 28, 2025 | Devotional
It was 2300 miles and instead of spending 30 hours behind the wheel, I chose 5 hours in the air. Because I can. Because it’s convenient. Because, well, it’s the Western thing to do. Ironically, it was a trip to a retreat weekend for Spiritual Directors at a Franciscan...
by Don Freeman | Jan 25, 2025 | Devotional
Will you indulge me once again for one more bit of cool information from my reading about our brains? They have a default setting – joy. Babies, from birth to eighteen months, respond to the joyful presence of Mom and Dad and more besides. Any happy interaction...
by Don Freeman | Jan 23, 2025 | Devotional
As Jesus’ disciples, the salt and light of the world, Ambassadors of Reconciliation, nothing has changed since a recent event in Washington DC. What Jesus called us to is the same today as before Monday. Nothing has changed in his love for us or in our salvation...
by Don Freeman | Jan 21, 2025 | Devotional
Jesus says we, all of us who bear his name, are salt and light in the world we live in. We were gifted to see abundant truth of that statement just two days ago. It was the memorial service for a 31-year-old man tragically killed in a car crash two days before...
