by Don Freeman | Jun 17, 2023 | Devotional
Spoiler alert: The following is another flight of PD imagination. I often like to try to fill in Scripture’s ‘silent gaps,’ those so-intriguing times when a ton of movie-worthy things are happening, but which are not recorded for us. So… As the young and...
by Don Freeman | Jun 15, 2023 | Devotional
It’s the as-yet-unpacked box, long forgotten in the attic or the garage or the basement or on the top shelf of the closet or under a bed. It’s the invisibly present thing in the room, like what’s been supporting the bedside lamp. If you’ve ever moved house in...
by Don Freeman | Jun 13, 2023 | Devotional
This thought may occur right after a sumptuous B&B breakfast: “I won’t need to eat again today.” Or it may occur (with a slight groan) after an unusually copious restaurant lunch. It is somewhat embarrassing then, when in late afternoon, the search begins to find...
by Don Freeman | Jun 10, 2023 | Devotional
I expect, several months after Jesus returned to his Father, that the disciples would have gathered to share an evening meal and one of them probably would have blurted out his latest revelation: “We are Pentecost people!” After a few seconds to absorb this word,...
by Don Freeman | Jun 8, 2023 | Devotional
“I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect – life in its fullness until you overflow!” JESUS (John 10:10b as translated in the PASSION version) What do y’all think? Are these just pretty words, hackneyed phrases, off-the-cuff, thoughtless...
by Don Freeman | Jun 6, 2023 | Devotional
Across Protestantism, there is a vast range of instructions given to new believers. Some of these ‘inductees’ are told: You must speak in tongues or you are not born again You simply pray a sinner’s prayer and you are set for eternity You must be baptized by immersion...
by Don Freeman | Jun 3, 2023 | Devotional
Very early in our marriage, shortly after our post-honeymoon arrival in France, a friend invited us to go for a walk with him. We eagerly accepted, thinking this would be a good way for Sue to get to know some of the folks I’d met the previous year. On Saturday...
by Don Freeman | Jun 1, 2023 | Devotional
In the era before computers (there really was one!) vacationers traveled with camera cases in which they kept rolls of light-sensitive film. As photo-worthy occasions arose, those cameras were frantically removed from the case and aimed at the desired subject, not...
by Don Freeman | May 30, 2023 | Devotional
It’s the final game of the NHL playoffs, the game is tied in second overtime. Both teams are exhausted but salivating over the possibility of taking home the much-coveted Stanley Cup. Some furious skating, lightning-speed passing of the puck, back and forth, back and...
by Don Freeman | May 27, 2023 | Devotional
Canadian art films were, once upon a time, notorious for ending mysteriously, with no resolution to the storyline. They left the viewer in disbelief that two hours had been ‘invested’ only to get stung with a non-ending, with the challenge of filling in the blanks,...
