by Don Freeman | Nov 5, 2022 | Devotional
I won’t overly burden you with my current reading, which is a 462-page book on the brain and the importance of interhemispheric information transfer facilitated by the corpus callosum. Plus, you may not have a burning desire to be informed about the brain’s...
by Don Freeman | Nov 3, 2022 | Devotional
As it turns out, Camp Wildwood is aptly named. It was my first retreat at the church-sponsored facility and it was intriguing to be there after all the fun stories I’d heard. The check-in began at 3 PM and allowed plenty of time to find (just a tiny, twenty-minute...
by Don Freeman | Nov 1, 2022 | Devotional
Talk about things hidden in plain sight! There it was! As the sun tilted its way across the western sky, it was pouring golden light through the full-length living room window. How many times it had done this without notice I’ve not calculated, but on this fateful...
by Don Freeman | Oct 29, 2022 | Devotional
As you are traveling the 13-mile stretch of highway – a tunnel carved through the solid rock of the Swiss Alps – you might wonder at this crazy feat of engineering. If you are ever privileged to be present at a NASA rocket launch, and feel the earth...
by Don Freeman | Oct 27, 2022 | Devotional
It might happen during spring cleaning, or when you move to a new house, or like now, whensummer clothes get put away to make room for heavier, winter wear. You ‘discover’possessions you had previously known. Sometimes they are like happy accidents, items feelingbrand...
by Don Freeman | Oct 25, 2022 | Devotional
21st Century culture, to followers of Jesus, is intense, Scripture-revealing and prophecy-fulfilling, and calls for us to dig deeply into Truth, not looking to the left or to the right. Martin Luther’s 16th Century lyrics (shockingly, back in the day, set to a...
by Don Freeman | Oct 22, 2022 | Devotional
“It’s just a game.” Those were the words meant to reassure me on the rare occasion when I was being reluctantly recruited to play neighborhood baseball (they were extremely rare and you will soon enough understand the reason). I quickly experienced the sharp pain of...
by Don Freeman | Oct 20, 2022 | Devotional
The widespread appeal of luxury holiday resorts, Caribbean cruises, and spa retreats is that no effort needs to be expended on meal planning, cleaning, organizing outings, overcoming glitches in the schedule – it’s all included. There are no meetings to host or...
by Don Freeman | Oct 18, 2022 | Devotional
Some people love them! Others hate them! Some don’t mind too much if they’re for someone else. Others don’t even want to be involved in getting them planned. I’m talking about surprises – you know, for birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, etc. One friend in Canada...
by Don Freeman | Oct 15, 2022 | Devotional
Family. That one word is an entire, boxed set of CD’s! And that one word establishes, restricts, releases, builds, tears down, encourages, discourages, shapes, squeezes, gives color to, or drains color from, a big part of our lives, including our lives as adults....
