by Don Freeman | Mar 23, 2023 | Devotional
When the kindly stork tenderly deposits our swaddled, newborn selves on the front stoop of the dwelling which will become our home, and the family which will become ours from this time forth, there is much in store. While we are bundles of genes and traits and...
by Don Freeman | Mar 21, 2023 | Devotional
Wouldn’t it be great if, when we were born, we were supplied with two certificates – our birthcertificate and another certifying that we were fully gifted for demonstrating grace wheneverthe need should arise throughout our entire lifetime? This second one would...
by Don Freeman | Mar 18, 2023 | Devotional
With only a bit of vim and vigor but suited up in Olympian runner’s spandex (moving right along), stretching out on the track like the others around me, putting on a game face, checking my shoelaces and my pinned-on runner’s number, I contemplate the 10,000 meters...
by Don Freeman | Mar 16, 2023 | Devotional
I was impressed! A young guy sent by the juvenile court system to the Teen Challenge center where I was teaching, was always ending his responses with, ‘Sir.’ He presented himself as extremely polite, well-mannered, respectful. It wasn’t long before I discovered that...
by Don Freeman | Mar 14, 2023 | Devotional
Prayer is a problematic process for Jesus’ production-oriented progeny (that’s us). Drilling down to the specifics of that alliterating statement, there are three principal prayer practices: 1. Humbling oneself. 2. Listening wholeheartedly. 3. Obeying submissively....