Category: Ramblings

Random thoughts running through my mind.

  • Life of Jesus the Christ

    Life of Jesus the Christ

    This rebind may have been one of my favorites. 

    I don’t remember all the details about the owner, but I do recall that one of his close relatives had used this book when attending a seminary. The book’s publishing date was in the early 1890’s, and it had been well bound in leather. However, the book had seen quite heavy usage. 

    The original owner had taken copious notes, written in the margins in Greek. His printing was exquisite; he was obviously a detail-oriented person. We make it a habit to not read a person’s private notes they’ve written in the books we rebind for them, and this one was no exception. It helped, of course, that I can’t read Greek. Yet I did love the beauty of his writing as I inspected the book and prepared it for rebinding.

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  • Every Day with the Psalms

    Every Day with the Psalms

    When I graduated from high school, my pastor gave me this book as a graduation gift. I appreciated the thought, but it was an unassuming book and I was not very interested in the content so on the shelf it went with the other books. Don’t get me wrong, It wasn’t that I disliked it, I just had more important things on my mind at the time.

    Sometime later, I began to realize that my life wasn’t where it should be and I began looking for ways to correct what I knew to be wrong. Pastor Carney was a man I respected and one of the few to have made a significant impact in my life. I remembered that he had given me this book and I went looking for it. Sadly, after multiple moves, it had been relegated to the world of storage boxes. It took me some time, but I eventually found it and began using it regularly.

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