by Don Freeman | Mar 24, 2022 | Devotional
(Just so you know, the following is not a trick question) Do you see an invitation or a commandment in the following words employed by Eugene Peterson? ‘Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life – and place it...
by Don Freeman | Mar 22, 2022 | Devotional
It’s been said that experience is the best teacher. A co-worker once remarked with jaundiced signature, “It should be! It costs plenty!” I agree that the learning from some of life’s lessons has a hefty, by times painful, by times humbling, ‘price tag’ attached. One...
by Don Freeman | Mar 19, 2022 | Devotional
One day, casually chatting on my phone while leaving the church building, I tossed my briefcase in the trunk and closed the lid. In a nano-second, my attention was riveted to glaringly obvious, but up till now unconsidered, facts. The building was locked. My car doors...
by Don Freeman | Mar 17, 2022 | Devotional
Invitations. They come as anything from delightful surprises to ghastly moral obligations (aka GMOs). So, we can be thrilled to bits or caused to groan inwardly, depending on the category. In the first, Sue’s parents regularly invited us to spend Christmas with them....
by Don Freeman | Mar 15, 2022 | Devotional
It’s 709-722-2415, and now you know it, too. However, it won’t help you because that is the phone number of my Uncle Bill and Aunt Dora, who are both with Jesus now. I called them only one time over 40 years ago and their number is still taking up space in my brain....
by Don Freeman | Mar 12, 2022 | Devotional
For the tech maniac, it’s a candy store existence in our day. So many developments in so many domains aimed at convenience in everything from seeing-eye, video-alarm, doorbells to talking, grocery-ordering, midnight-raid-scolding refrigerators to garage door closers...
