by Don Freeman | Feb 4, 2025 | Devotional
Momentum: bare toes encountering table legs discover its existence. So do shoppers who attempt to pass through closed, all-glass doorways. So do vehicles failing to cede right-of-way to a tree. We live with this thing called momentum every day of our lives, more often...
by Don Freeman | Feb 1, 2025 | Devotional
Anticipated attendance: 50,000. Actual attendance: 460,000. Woodstock, August 1969. The major theme of this 4-day event was peace, and fittingly, even with the overwhelming numbers, even with epic traffic jams, even with scorching temperatures, high humidity, and...
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...
