by Don Freeman | Sep 17, 2022 | Devotional
It was a salt & vinegar potato chip and it landed on the less than pristine picnic table, so I sweptit off into the nearby trees. Instantaneously, a ravenous flock of sparrows attacked, with theswiftest of them swooping up the prize and winging off, leaving the...
by Don Freeman | Sep 10, 2022 | Devotional
Not all aspects of God’s character shine through us with equal brilliance, but there’s one that seems universally potent – freedom! It’s in evidence from our earliest “I’ll do it myself!”, to a longing for summer holidays away from teachers and school classrooms, to...
by Don Freeman | Sep 3, 2022 | Devotional
Here in Virginia, one can almost guarantee hearing someone say: “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” But not this summer! This summer, it has been the heat. And not only in the US. Europe has been scorching hot these past few months, hotter than most have ever...
by Don Freeman | Sep 1, 2022 | Devotional
I am an auditory learner. That is, I get information best simply by listening. The positive aspect of this is not needing a lot of other stimuli. One downside is that I don’t manage to take notes well. The other downside is that I forget more easily now than before,...
by Don Freeman | Aug 30, 2022 | Devotional
We celebrate a long list of people acclaimed for their achievements: Olympic athletes excelling at their sport, college and professional athletes winning tournaments, arts and entertainment stars ‘owning’ the red carpet, scientists hailing breakthroughs in all...
by Don Freeman | Aug 27, 2022 | Devotional
I’ve got it! I know why Jesus chooses little children, and those who are like them, to live in his Kingdom! They are not self-conscious or uptight or judgmental or worried what others will think. They instinctively know they need, indeed are dependent on, loving care...
by Don Freeman | Aug 25, 2022 | Devotional
A little sympathy, please. Life is, as promised, not always a walk in the park. But, if you are differently gifted, aka left-handed, the difficulties are multiplied. The right-handed majority lives blithely oblivious of the repeated indignities endured by their...
by Don Freeman | Aug 23, 2022 | Devotional
Dr. James Dobson was once heard to say: ‘Children are the best receivers of information, and the worst interpreters of information.’ That means that little ones hear well and eagerly, but they have to process the information heard through the lens of their as-yet,...
by Don Freeman | Aug 20, 2022 | Devotional
Professors’ teaching styles range from fall-asleep, deathly boring to edge-of-seat riveting (with all variations in between). I once had an evening class – from 7-10 PM! The professor was one of the most gentle, kind, intelligent men one could ever meet....
by Don Freeman | Aug 18, 2022 | Devotional
I thought there’d been a mistake. We’d ordered, online, a latex foam mattress, but what came was shrink-wrapped and rolled up in a box so small I was sure the company had sent the wrong thing. And it weighed 80 pounds! Opening the box, I saw this weird-looking, heavy...
