by Don Freeman | Jan 7, 2021 | Devotional
The note inside the Christmas card read: “We’re glad to have 2020 in the rearview mirror.” We smile at the sentiment chock-full of wit and sarcasm, more humorous for its understatement. The less funny side is that it nearly begs us (okay, begs me) to launch into a...
by Don Freeman | Jan 5, 2021 | Devotional
It’s maybe an insignificant thing, but have you ever noticed how it’s enough to send thoughts and memories and ideas spooling off like cotton candy onto a paper cone, one leading to another, not necessarily related, not necessarily even congruent with those preceding?...
by Don Freeman | Jan 2, 2021 | Devotional
I love dictionaries! In grade school, we had a dark wooden lectern at the front of our classrooms with an enormously thick tome laying open; an invitation to the curious to come up to be educated. One teacher, her name, Mrs. Hazel Carnahan, was thrilled when one of...
by Don Freeman | Jan 2, 2021 | Devotional
‘Be careful what you ask for!’ How many times have you heard that warning? There are, I am sure, times in all our lives when we’ve paid the price for want of caution. But I am proposing a re-write for the New Year, a variation on the theme: ‘Be daring in what you ask...
by Don Freeman | Dec 31, 2020 | Devotional
It’s New Year’s Eve, the ultimate day of 2020, the 7th Day of Christmas. It’s a time of saying hello, of saying goodbye, and of continuing in celebration of the One whose Light lights up all the gaps between our hellos and goodbyes. Speaking of Jesus, the Light, he...
by Don Freeman | Dec 29, 2020 | Devotional
How many parents, with a five-day-old baby in the house, could be overheard saying, “Well, that whole baby thing is over”? Not having been in that position, my guess is, on the contrary, that thoughts of potential, personality, education, career, the future, as well...
