by Don Freeman | Jun 21, 2025 | Devotional
A high school teacher arrives at a new school for the first day of classes. He preps his classroom with subject essentials and waits for the arrival of his students. He notices with interest the posture, facial expression, the choosing of seats and whether any of his...
by Don Freeman | Jun 19, 2025 | Devotional
This may show your age, but who remembers 45’s? Those cute, 7” records with one song on each side? Who had a sizable collection of these ‘modern’ recordings? (still has?) If so. You likely remember every Side A, but do you remember any of the songs on Side B? Poor...
by Don Freeman | Jun 17, 2025 | Devotional
The much-told story, as I remember it, goes like this: an employee made a mistake which cost the company $10,000.00. When this was related to one of the VPs of the company, he immediately responded that that employee was surely terminated. The response from the...
by Don Freeman | Jun 14, 2025 | Devotional
Freedom is sweetest to those who’ve known some type of confinement. All across northern France, for example, countless towns and villages have streets re-named with the date of their liberation by Allied Forces in WWII (i.e. Rue du 22 novembre, Mulhouse, Alsace). Such...
by Don Freeman | Jun 12, 2025 | Devotional
The arrival of God’s Spirit at Pentecost was dramatically announced in wind and flames. The wind is a symbol of the breath of God, His Spirit, or ‘ruach.’ The fire represents God’s presence with His people as they were making their way through the wilderness to the...
by Don Freeman | Jun 10, 2025 | Devotional
When I was around eleven years old, my brothers, six and years older than I, decided they would teach me how to drive. Off we went in my eldest brother’s 1958 Pontiac. When we got far enough out in the countryside, they deemed it time for my first lesson. They...
by Don Freeman | Jun 7, 2025 | Devotional
It would truly be ‘Livin’ the dream,’ or ‘One more day in paradise,’ two phrases so often spoken in response to the question, ‘How are you?’ The ‘it’ I’m referring to is a place of serene soul restfulness during an extended time of waiting for a response or a...
by Don Freeman | Jun 5, 2025 | Devotional
It’s now been seven days since the disciples watched as Jesus abruptly stopped talking, glanced upward as if hearing someone call his name, grinned happily, lifted his hands like a small child wanting to be picked up, and was raised up into the sky, into a cloud, then...
by Don Freeman | Jun 3, 2025 | Devotional
Waiting impacts our precious commodity called time. Nothing makes us more jittery than when we sense its waste. And because we value time on a par with gold bullion, non-productivity can seem the equivalent of a personal bank heist. So, pity help the one who appears...
by Don Freeman | May 31, 2025 | Devotional
An annual phenomenon is happening again all around us. Along with trees flowering and leafing out, flower buds bursting into bloom, bees emerging from their hibernation, mosquitoes gearing up for another bloodthirsty season, schools are closing down for the summer and...
