by Don Freeman | Apr 5, 2025 | Devotional
Construction project managers are gifted people who are capable of seeing a completed building before there’s even a hole in the ground or before one piece of building material arrives on site. It’s like they work backward in their minds from the finished project to...
by Don Freeman | Apr 3, 2025 | Devotional
Not being a meteorologist and having abandoned hopes of ‘getting’ what I’ve read, here are my non-scientist thoughts about what a thunderstorm is – with the usual apologies. It has something to do with hot air blowing up and coming in contact with different air...
by Don Freeman | Apr 1, 2025 | Devotional
I’m reminded of the phrase ‘Still we are learning.” This is in relation how we react when we are interrupted, and not just interrupted, but unalterably so. Yesterday, on a trip to Kansas, a connecting flight was cancelled due to severe thunderstorms. Cancelled. Full...
by Don Freeman | Mar 29, 2025 | Devotional
When I was ten years old, I was taken to an Optometrist. I don’t know if my parents described what that was, or why, exactly, I was visiting that place. (Isn’t it surprising how many things are like that for kids, just being taken here and there because we’re told...
by Don Freeman | Mar 27, 2025 | Devotional
Picture, with me, the twelve men sent by Jesus to buy lunch – in a Samaritan village – from real-life Samaritans! This was a first for all of them, an unpleasant first, even a dreaded first. Their whole lives they had learned to avoid all dealings with this...
by Don Freeman | Mar 25, 2025 | Devotional
When people have decided they want nothing to do with Jesus, they search the spectrum of possible reasons, most of them pointing away from themselves and finding some fault in him to justify their rejection. In that regard, several have pinned the label ‘iconoclast’...
by Don Freeman | Mar 22, 2025 | Devotional
This past week I had the unique privilege of being in a meeting of pastors, specifically, a Lutheran, an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, and me. The meeting began with a discussion centered around donuts which had been purchased for the gathering. Somehow,...
by Don Freeman | Mar 20, 2025 | Devotional
It’s every day. We have thoughts and attitudes, words and actions. Many, we assume, are so benign as to have little or no importance. But what if God opened our ‘ledger’ and showed us what really transpired as a result of our decisions? The people impacted, our...
by Don Freeman | Mar 18, 2025 | Devotional
Every once in a while, there’s a cartoon featuring a guy obviously in the throes of making a difficult decision and there, on one shoulder is a mini cherub, and on the other, a mini demon. Both ‘guests’ are speaking in the ear of this befuddled person. One message is...
by Don Freeman | Mar 15, 2025 | Devotional
‘Discretion’ is defined as cautious reserve in speech. ‘Reserve’ is defined as cautious in making a full explanation, restraint in the free expression of one’s mind. Neither of these is to be expected in a little child. It is pretty much useless to try to...
