by Don Freeman | Jan 2, 2021 | Devotional
‘Be careful what you ask for!’ How many times have you heard that warning? There are, I am sure, times in all our lives when we’ve paid the price for want of caution. But I am proposing a re-write for the New Year, a variation on the theme: ‘Be daring in what you ask...
by Don Freeman | Dec 31, 2020 | Devotional
It’s New Year’s Eve, the ultimate day of 2020, the 7th Day of Christmas. It’s a time of saying hello, of saying goodbye, and of continuing in celebration of the One whose Light lights up all the gaps between our hellos and goodbyes. Speaking of Jesus, the Light, he...
by Don Freeman | Dec 29, 2020 | Devotional
How many parents, with a five-day-old baby in the house, could be overheard saying, “Well, that whole baby thing is over”? Not having been in that position, my guess is, on the contrary, that thoughts of potential, personality, education, career, the future, as well...
by Don Freeman | Dec 26, 2020 | Devotional
Advent is over as is the waiting for the arrival of the Messiah which that season commemorates. It’s Day Two of Christmas 2020 on the official ‘church’ calendar; the second day of twelve. Too often, in our headlong rush to get to the next thing, the next project, the...
by Don Freeman | Dec 24, 2020 | Devotional
Light was birthed into the darkness of that first Christmas night bringing hope just like the first faint glowings of dawn after a long and anxious waiting. This waiting for the promised Messiah was four hundred years of bated breath, of groanings, of prophecies...
by Don Freeman | Dec 22, 2020 | Devotional
Whodathunkit? A zealous, fire-breathing, puritanical Pharisee gets chosen, not in spite of, but because of his all-in approach to what he believes is truth. Once Saul, the Jew of Jews on the fast track to becoming High Priest one day, now Paul, the equally zealous...
by Don Freeman | Dec 19, 2020 | Devotional
It’s an extraordinary thought that all newborn babies share common traits yet carry holy uniqueness within every gene of their being. Casual observers may have difficulty matching infants with their Moms & Dads, but the mother-child bond can quickly make a...
by Don Freeman | Dec 17, 2020 | Devotional
It was an old tire, but while no longer roadworthy, appeared to be sufficient for this trial run. The rope was thick and seemed capable of holding. However, when David sat in and gripped the top of the tire, launching himself out over the stream those two elements in...
by Don Freeman | Dec 15, 2020 | Devotional
Babies can melt the stoniest of ogre hearts with their purity and innocence, their unfeigned joy at seeing a silly grinning adult babble and goo and make faces for some unknown reason. They gradually begin the process of discovering their world, first by ‘getting’...
by Don Freeman | Dec 12, 2020 | Devotional
Joy is an ecstatic fireworks display erupting out of the heart, crashing and booming and flashing and sizzling and hissing, often prompting sobbing laughter and dancing, spinning and hugging. I’m convinced that much of joy’s intensity is the nail-biting lead-up, the...
