by Don Freeman | Oct 13, 2022 | Devotional
OK, so, here’s the problem. First off, there is this creepy, old, mostly unused bedroom. It smells fusty, like it has been closed-up for a century – or maybe longer. There is almost no light getting through the heavily curtained window and only a tiny bit more when...
by Don Freeman | Oct 11, 2022 | Devotional
To autumn aficionados, it’s that first intake of a certain crispness in the air, the paler sky, the upcoming majesty of fall leaves that speaks of it. To winter enthusiasts, it’s the dark blue/gray of the sky, that heavy stillness promising snow that quietly but...
by Don Freeman | Oct 8, 2022 | Devotional
Over 134,000,000 books (according to a brief online search) have been published since the invention of the Gutenberg press in 1450, and, on average, 2,200,000 more books are published annually. I think I’ve read hundreds of books in my lifetime – many novels, some...
by Don Freeman | Oct 6, 2022 | Devotional
For little children, the world is an ever-unfolding series of ‘new.’ Colors and textures and sounds and tastes and smells; the exotic concept of seasons – all four of them, each one a complete toybox of discoveries, each more fascinating than the one just past. Then,...
by Don Freeman | Oct 4, 2022 | Devotional
Global Newsflash: Jesus has overcome the world. That’s right. Just as he promised, he has bested allefforts of evil and reigns supreme forever at the right hand of the Father. The open secret is that, in him,we, too, overcome the world and its systems and its schemes....
by Don Freeman | Sep 24, 2022 | Devotional
There’s a French saying that, translated, says, “One tastes first with one’s eyes.” That’s probablywhy food is presented so artfully in France – as a ‘feast for the eyes.’ (I must say, it makes onehungry just looking at it). All that attention to perfection is,...
