by Don Freeman | Aug 11, 2022 | Devotional
Coffee maker signaling the end of the brewing cycle. Alarm clock. AC unit. Birds. Footsteps. The bell on checking in at the gym. Weight machines clanking. Rowing machines swooshing. Water running. Dishwasher rinsing. Utensils against breakfast plates. Diesel engine...
by Don Freeman | Jul 23, 2022 | Devotional
We are a besieged people. For thirty months we’ve been mandated to: close down, isolate, mask up, sanitize, sanitize, sanitize, get tested, quarantine, social distance, stay home, and gobs more. Then, we’ve dealt (and continue to deal) with global political mayhem,...
by Don Freeman | Jul 21, 2022 | Devotional
Dark, roiling clouds turning mid-afternoon into premature nightfall. Torrents of driving rain, flashes of lightning, thousands of crawling vehicles apprehensively advancing through the ‘car wash,’ cell phones lighting up, red, with a siren warning of flash flooding....
by Don Freeman | Jul 16, 2022 | Devotional
Our story, recap: The serpent lied. Adam disobeyed. God declared war. Here we are. (The serpent is still lying. Man is still disobeying. God’s war against lies and disobediences still goes on. And we are still here – in the thick of it.) God loved. Second Adam obeyed....
by Don Freeman | Jul 12, 2022 | Devotional
Sighting a whale arching up out of the water just to splash back down. Peering a mile down from the rim of the Grand Canyon to its floor. Attending a baby’s birth. Hushing in the stalactite cathedral stillness of a grotto. Craning to look up above the cloud layer to...