by Barry Creamer | Jan 18, 2023 | Devotionals
I took the familiar hand in mine, looking down each aisle as we walked along the back of the store. When I glanced up to see a stranger’s face where my mother’s should have been, realized that not-my-mother’s-face meant not-my-mother’s-hand, the panic sufficed to etch...
by Barry Creamer | Jan 11, 2023 | Devotionals
If I’m ever lost in the neighborhood, wave a piece of technology and I’ll come running back. Inexcusably and ironically, I would rather use or fix technology than do something with it; preferring a monitor’s resolution to whatever it displays, an instrument’s timbre...
by Barry Creamer | Jan 4, 2023 | Devotionals
In 1981, cell phones are less likely in the future than the giant appliances the Jetsons use to make video calls. Out of the cash I should have shepherded better through the week, and with only a quarter tank in the Cutlass Supreme Coupe my parents handed down to me...
by Barry Creamer | Dec 28, 2022 | Devotionals
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. …My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.” There is more...
by Barry Creamer | Dec 21, 2022 | Devotionals
God told geriatric Abraham he would have a son, and he did. He revealed to Manoah’s wife their son would be holy, and he was. He promised melancholic Hanna she would birth a prophet, and she did. He swore to give Israel a king; they cared for their bitter relative and...
