I have a friend who is writing a book. In fact I have several friends who are writing books. All of them have contacted me for various favors ranging from advice, to proof reading, to ghost writing, to writing the foreword, to simply adding a brief recommendation to their book cover. I am honored to be invited. It also brings back memories. Before my first book was published in 1984, my claim to writing fame was my doctoral dissertation. I have two clear memories of that work. One of my major professors said, \u201cWhen you first start writing, you hope your work will become a best seller and be read all over the world, but by the time you finish, you just hope your mother will read it.\u201d The second vivid memory is when my Dad picked up the bound copy for the first time. He let it open to a page near the middle, and began to read. After only a few minutes, he said, \u201cHere\u2019s a misspelled word.\u201d Another of my books carried the subtitle, \u201cTwelve Weeks to Spiritual Fitness.\u201d One, whom I thought to be a friend, wrote a scorching, critical review for his school\u2019s professional journal saying I should know better than claim anyone could achieve spiritual fitness in only twelve weeks. Ah, the agony and ecstasy of writing. But even with my short-comings, I will assist my want-to-be-writer friends in any way I can. After all, in 2 Corinthians 9:1, the one who wrote the majority of the New Testament described his own writing as \u201csuperfluous\u201d (unnecessary, nonessential, redundant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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