by Don Freeman | Mar 14, 2023 | Devotional
Prayer is a problematic process for Jesus’ production-oriented progeny (that’s us). Drilling down to the specifics of that alliterating statement, there are three principal prayer practices: 1. Humbling oneself. 2. Listening wholeheartedly. 3. Obeying submissively....
by Don Freeman | Mar 11, 2023 | Devotional
A ‘hunch’ is a guess, randomly cobbled together from various sources (most of them reliable) with a generous smattering of intuition and imagination. May I share one of mine with you? Now, to be completely frank, the premise of this hunch could possibly get shredded...
by Don Freeman | Mar 9, 2023 | Devotional
We all know, or have heard stories of, those supremely confident little children who pompously declare that they will not be in need of help, be it in getting dressed, figuring out how to play a new game, or pouring milk on their Froot Loops. We also can picture the...
by Don Freeman | Mar 7, 2023 | Devotional
Driving through fog, especially the freezing kind we encountered in Alberta in January, is wearying but also dangerous. A race car driver here in the US is experiencing brain fog as a result of a serious concussion from a wreck and is not yet cleared to race. People...
by Don Freeman | Mar 4, 2023 | Devotional
I have good news and I have bad news (I think). The good news is – that name?, that book title?, the author of that book?, that word ‘on the tip of your tongue’? – none are forgotten! They’re all in there, somewhere! The bad news is that our ‘filing...
by Don Freeman | Mar 2, 2023 | Devotional
You’ve probably heard it, too: ‘If these walls could talk.’ In the case of centuries-old buildings, wouldn’t it make fascinating listening/reading if they could tell the stories of the people who inhabited their rooms? If they were residences, the families who lived...
by Don Freeman | Feb 28, 2023 | Devotional
In the days when cars had wide bench seating in (front and) back, before car seats were mandatory and before seatbelts were a thing, it was a regular occurrence for several kids to be able to fall asleep in the space available to them. The ‘way backs’ in station...
by Don Freeman | Feb 25, 2023 | Devotional
What a huge difference traveling by car as opposed to traveling by air! Air travel is done on an airline’s schedule: flight leaves 6 AM, arrive at airport 4 AM, leave home by 3 AM, get out of bed by 2 AM (or else!), pack carefully to fit in everything that will be...
by Don Freeman | Feb 23, 2023 | Devotional
As babies, when 2 AM would roll around, we would wake with an achy empty feeling in our tummies, later to be understood as hunger pangs. Instantly, we would sound the alarm for the servants to come running to relieve us of this dire need. This was done, while totally...
by Don Freeman | Feb 21, 2023 | Devotional
I’m a reader. I love to read! I always have three or four books I’m reading at a time, plus another several that are piled up waiting for a loving hand to reach out and take them down from the shelf (or pick them up off the floor). Some reading is light, easy, quick....
