{"id":269,"date":"2010-03-05T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=269"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:15:17","slug":"a-book-thats-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"A Book That’s Not For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHey, Daddy, I wrote this book for you.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 my daughter Callie<\/p>\n

And here it is\u2026in full.<\/p>\n

\"Callie's<\/a> \"Callie's<\/a> \"Callie's<\/a> \"Callie's<\/a> \"Callie's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJesus\u201d \u2013 Written and illustrated by Callie Mashburn.<\/p>\n

Published by the Callie Company.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this sort of what all of us need to do? Own and retell the story of Jesus in our own words? \u201cIllustrate\u201d it ourselves with our own colorful stories and perspectives? And \u201cpublish\u201d it by living it out in our own lives?<\/p>\n

I guess we could tear up the detailed inaccuracies between Callie\u2019s book and The Book (like the fact that in the Bible Joseph doesn\u2019t seem to be around when the crucifixion of Jesus took place, even though Callie describes he and<\/em> Mary being \u201cso sad\u201d when Jesus died), or get caught up correcting the bad grammar or misspelled words (\u201csall\u201d=saw), or point out that an actual picture of the cross of Jesus would be a tad more gruesome that Callie\u2019s drawing. But, oh, how we would miss the point of it all, eh? Oh, how we would miss the heart. And we would be frozen stiff, afraid to to tell the unbelievable story of Jesus because we might \u201cget it wrong\u201d or \u201cnot be good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

I pray that Callie never stops telling the story.<\/p>\n

Eventually, of course, I want the title of her book to be \u201cCallie\u201d \u2013 Written and illustrated by Jesus.<\/p>\n

What a sweet book that is, and Jesus is writing it right before my eyes. And what a sweet book Callie has written and gifted to me.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not for sale. But here is your reminder that these<\/a> are. Auctions close on Sunday and Monday nights. If you have any interest in them (or in supporting the Mashburn family\u2019s takin\u2019-care-of-business fund), be sure to bid in these by then.<\/p>\n

On a side note (but probably worthy of it\u2019s own blog piece based on several conversations I\u2019ve had this week), it was a little sad to me that Callie ended her book with the observation that back in Jesus\u2019 time, \u201cevery day people would go to the cross and worship Jesus,\u201d but \u201cthese days, we worship Jesus by going to church and singing about Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she is right, and that is the extent\u00a0of how we worship \u201cthese days\u201d, we need to get back to how they did it back then: both in frequency and focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHey, Daddy, I wrote this book for you.\u201d \u2013 my daughter Callie And here it is\u2026in full. \u201cJesus\u201d \u2013 Written and illustrated by Callie Mashburn. Published by the Callie Company. Isn\u2019t this sort of what all of us need to do? Own and retell the story of Jesus in our own words? \u201cIllustrate\u201d it ourselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ-vs-church","category-my-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pO6nf-4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianmashburn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}