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 13, 2025 | Devotional
Apart from his family’s middle-of-the-night, harried escape from Herod into Egypt, when he was too little to remember, Jesus’ rural Galilean upbringing was mostly uneventful. At the very least it was unrecorded. He would have spent part of his boyhood playing with his...
by Don Freeman | Jan 11, 2025 | Devotional
One of the advantages of being blissfully unaware of so many things is that every day is a revelation, sometimes of something momentous, sometimes of things of little consequence. Take for example, not long ago I was reading an article and happened to notice a detail...
by Don Freeman | Nov 19, 2024 | Devotional
I’ll confess it’s probably as a septuagenarian that I make this observation, but I think our current dearth of handwritten notes is a telling sign of the disintegration occurring in our society largely as a result of the now ubiquitous, but mis-named phenomenon,...
by Don Freeman | Oct 22, 2024 | Devotional
Hype gets old fast. Listening to it is nerve-grating, scream-inducing, mind-numbing. I think Mark Twain said it best: ‘There’s nothing worse than somebody else’s good time.’ And yet, who can always avoid being the source of hype after experiencing something...
