by Don Freeman | Oct 5, 2024 | Devotional
Famous quotes intrigue me! If they’ve survived the test of time it’s likely because, in just a few words, they are able to convey a whole essay of meaning. For example, just the other day I saw this: ‘Jealousy is counting someone else’s blessings.’ They’re like that....
by Don Freeman | Oct 3, 2024 | Devotional
I have a problem (I know, that opens the door to a variety of comments. I can hear them now). But really. When someone says, ‘Quick! What’s the first word that comes to mind when you hear _____? I don’t get a word, I get an unfolding scenario which leads me to...
by admin | Oct 1, 2024 | Devotional
‘In this world you will have trouble.’ Jesus. In the West, we ‘hear’ him saying, ‘In this world you will have peace and prosperity.’ Something rises up inside us at the thought of difficulties and hurdles and sicknesses and setbacks. To bolster this thinking,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 28, 2024 | Devotional
When movie and music celebrities, sports icons, politicians, scientists, etc., sit down to write the stories of their lives, their autobiographies, they prepare themselves to put into writing, the events of their lives which have shaped them. Many take time for this...
by Don Freeman | Sep 26, 2024 | Devotional
In a pamphlet titled, ‘American Crisis,’ written in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: ‘These are the days that try men’s souls . . .’ Today, in England, France, as well as the US, these words reflect the mood of close to 500 million people. Serious consequences hang in the...
by Don Freeman | Sep 24, 2024 | Devotional
Bread, growing up in my family, was strictly a homemade thing (I never had ‘boughten’ bread until I was a teenager, and I was, um, unimpressed, shall we say). I watched my mother knead that large lump of dough, on average, twice a week. Once, at around six years old,...
by Don Freeman | Sep 21, 2024 | Devotional
As we follow the journeys of the disciples as they follow Jesus, we realize quickly we are much like them. Like them, we live in physical bodies in a physical world. We know how things operate, how to make our way in the world (more or less), how to interact with...
by Don Freeman | Sep 19, 2024 | Devotional
On Sunday, October 30, 1938, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in New York aired, on Orson Welles’ radio show, The Mercury Theater on the Air, a dramatic reading, with sound effects, of ‘The War of the Worlds’ (based on H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel of the same name).The...
by Don Freeman | Sep 17, 2024 | Devotional
Here’s what we know: we are the Body of Christ, we are separated from our old life through our baptism into Jesus, and raised up to a New Life, everything old is no more and all things have been made new, Jesus was God in the flesh, the Divine on earth among men...
by Don Freeman | Sep 14, 2024 | Devotional
It was a green light, and I was going straight through. An oncoming driver, busily adjusting his car radio, turned left into what was currently my space in the intersection. We each careened off one another, me over the curb, headed for a tall hedge which I wanted to...
