by Don Freeman | Feb 18, 2025 | Devotional
Our world is one where the word ‘dystopia’ (an imaginary society with great suffering and injustice and hopelessness under a totalitarian regime marked by harshness) and its corresponding adjective, ‘dystopian’ are in vogue. It’s very chic to use either of them in...
by Don Freeman | Feb 15, 2025 | Devotional
City dwellers seeking a temporary escape from their normal day to day have caused a sharp rise in farm vacations, or the fancy term, agritourism. A major discovery for those who choose this style of time away from their concrete jungle is how much farmers love what...
by Don Freeman | Feb 13, 2025 | Devotional
A college student with the goal of becoming a neurosurgeon enters her studies knowing that much study and reading and personal sacrifice are ahead. She signs up for classes, thereby consenting to the sleepless nights, the long years of internship, the financial...
by Don Freeman | Feb 11, 2025 | Devotional
You just can’t make this stuff up. It’s right there for all to read, this story of the Israelites, soon after their Moses-led liberation from 400 years of Egyptian slavery. God provided them with manna to eat but they quickly began to yearn for what they had left...
by Don Freeman | Feb 8, 2025 | Devotional
Think back to when you were a child, and your family made the trip to your grandparents’ house for Christmas. Or maybe a time when you went to a school reunion. Or maybe an annual event or conference that you were looking forward to. The trip itself wasn’t the main...
by Don Freeman | Feb 6, 2025 | Devotional
Pilate despairingly posed the moot question to Jesus: ‘What is Truth?’ Some in our day would query similarly: ‘What is Peace?’ Oh sure, we are familiar with definitions written in dictionaries and the like, but for the ‘boots on the ground’ reality, how is it lived...
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...
