by Don Freeman | Mar 19, 2022 | Devotional
One day, casually chatting on my phone while leaving the church building, I tossed my briefcase in the trunk and closed the lid. In a nano-second, my attention was riveted to glaringly obvious, but up till now unconsidered, facts. The building was locked. My car doors...
by Don Freeman | Mar 17, 2022 | Devotional
Invitations. They come as anything from delightful surprises to ghastly moral obligations (aka GMOs). So, we can be thrilled to bits or caused to groan inwardly, depending on the category. In the first, Sue’s parents regularly invited us to spend Christmas with them....
by Don Freeman | Mar 15, 2022 | Devotional
It’s 709-722-2415, and now you know it, too. However, it won’t help you because that is the phone number of my Uncle Bill and Aunt Dora, who are both with Jesus now. I called them only one time over 40 years ago and their number is still taking up space in my brain....
by Don Freeman | Mar 12, 2022 | Devotional
For the tech maniac, it’s a candy store existence in our day. So many developments in so many domains aimed at convenience in everything from seeing-eye, video-alarm, doorbells to talking, grocery-ordering, midnight-raid-scolding refrigerators to garage door closers...
by Don Freeman | Mar 10, 2022 | Devotional
Let’s talk about funerals, no one’s go-to conversation starter over coffee. While the death of a friend or loved one is one of the most challenging events of a lifetime, plunging us into a season of grief and sorrow and emotional turmoil, chilling us with its savagery...
by Don Freeman | Mar 8, 2022 | Devotional
The adult human body is 60% water (as per Google). When that balance is interrupted, we have developed a range of products that restore moisture to dry skin, chapped hands, dry eyes, dry mouth, dry and brittle hair, etc. I think the happy balance for our overall...
by Don Freeman | Mar 5, 2022 | Devotional
A raw testimony from the introduction of a great, two-author book I’m currently reading: “For a good portion of our Christian lives, prayer did not make sense. But that wasn’t our main problem. Our problem was that we weren’t being honest about it. We pretended that...
by Don Freeman | Mar 3, 2022 | Devotional
“There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan.” C.S. Lewis, Christian Reflections, Eerdmans, 2014. “I have told you these things so that you will be whole and at peace. In...
by Don Freeman | Mar 1, 2022 | Devotional
Today is the Eve of Lent 2022, the day before the 40-day period (excluding Sundays) leading up to Resurrection Sunday. It is celebrated differently depending on prevailing tradition. This year we are getting together to ‘mark’ the day by enjoying an indulgent evening...
by Don Freeman | Feb 26, 2022 | Devotional
To buffer ourselves against life’s emergencies, we all make hefty prepayments to companies ‘offering’ insurance policies which, we hope and pray, we’ll never be in a situation to use (it should be added that these companies also hope and pray we’ll never make a...
