On Day 100 it is great to have a SELL and one that is a win\/win for all but a bookstore in Shelbyville.\u00a0 When I listed on Day 88 the Bibles I had found around the house and which were bound for Papua New Guinea, I mentioned that I had a copy of The Message.\u00a0 If you haven’t read any of The Message, you really should.\u00a0 It is Eugene Peterson’s modern English version of Scripture.\u00a0 I find it especially helpful in bringing a fresh perspective on familiar passages.\u00a0 I had hesitated on whether or not I would send it with the Bibles to Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 The folks collecting the Bibles had specified no King James Versions, so I got the impression they were looking for translations in modern English.\u00a0 Although The Message can be useful, it is not strictly speaking a translation.\u00a0 Peterson does take some literary liberties with the text.\u00a0 My copy\u00a0was a\u00a0hard bound book for which\u00a0I had paid $40 many years back.\u00a0 My future sister-in-law sent me a message on Facebook saying she wished she had seen my posting earlier – she had just gone out and purchased a copy of The Message for my brother\u00a0 … for $50! She\u00a0further explained how\u00a0she’d be glad to\u00a0return it\u00a0to the store … if I were selling my copy for less. I wrote back and said my copy was only $49.99. We haggled… and settled on $25.\u00a0 Win\/win! And unlike most of my “Sells” so far, this one is actually a done deal – the book is in Russ’ hands and the check is in mine.\u00a0 That’s another $25 in our Haiti fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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