by Don Freeman | Jan 8, 2022 | Devotional
This is a friend’s profound sentiment. His point, perhaps obvious, is that once a problem/situation/set of circumstances has been identified, that is merely step one. The knowing, in itself, doesn’t alter what currently exists, what is producing consternation at some...
by Don Freeman | Jan 6, 2022 | Devotional
When we moved three years ago, I was on a mission to get better lighting into our new house. Simple enough, right? Well, it turns out that there have been major changes in the lighting world since I last investigated. I remember going to the store, back in the day, to...
by Don Freeman | Jan 4, 2022 | Devotional
In France, there’s a saying that there is a cheese for every day of the year. Sue and I tried many varieties in our time there, but since, like architectural styles, cheeses are regional, being found almost exclusively in the department (or county) where they are...
by Don Freeman | Jan 1, 2022 | Devotional
Did you know that in ancient Israel, a newly married young man was required to take a 365-day honeymoon? During that time, he was not to be sent to war or have any other responsibilities put on him. It was written into the legal code – one full year! The reason...
by Don Freeman | Dec 30, 2021 | Devotional
I invite you to invest a few minutes of your day, basking in the following songs on this Christmas, Day 6: Gather Round, Ye Children Come Away in a Manger Mary giving birth to Jesus was a wholly natural event – painful, long, complicated, messy, exhausting – and yet...
by Don Freeman | Dec 28, 2021 | Devotional
Christmas! It is essentially about gift receiving. Yes, we give gifts out of the overflow of our gratitude, our love, sometimes even out of a sense of obligation, but receiving is more in keeping with the season. This is challenging to those of us in the Western...
by Don Freeman | Dec 24, 2021 | Devotional
Just after midday they had entered Bethlehem, their long-awaited destination. Joseph had settled Mary on a small hill near the north entrance gate and gone in search of now-urgently needed accommodations. He spent the whole afternoon asking, asking, pleading, but...
by Don Freeman | Dec 23, 2021 | Devotional
Today, the news from those returning from Bethlehem was not encouraging. All rooms were taken. Many Bethlehemites, too, like Joseph and Mary, had been obliged to leave for their ancestral towns for the census. In fact, it appeared that all of Israel was traveling to...
by Don Freeman | Dec 21, 2021 | Devotional
Having asked around the village how long others thought the journey to Bethlehem would take, Joseph added three days to the predictions, wanting to accommodate Mary in her condition. However, those extra days had already elapsed, with the rest stops getting longer and...
by Don Freeman | Dec 18, 2021 | Devotional
The basic ingredients are so simple, but with results that are so heavenly, so sublime, so close to perfection you could almost levitate. I’m drooling for that quintessential sugar-lover’s concoction: fudge. You just take several cups of brown sugar, a huge dollop of...
