But why do they have to be so expensive!!! Well, not all, if you're matiyaga in looking for bargains at Booksale and RSO (this is a second-hand bookstore in Cebu). I actually got most of my books second-hand, while others were either brand new but discounted, and some of my best ones were given by friends and relatives, including friends I've never met in person. Thank God for generous people!
My old and not-so-old friends would testify that I often lug around a book wherever I go. It's a lifelong passion, I guess, ever since I learned how to read. We didn't have television when I was a kid, so books were one source of learning. They also helped me a lot by building up my vocabulary, broadening my mind to many ideas, and enabling me to find refuge from a cruel world (this sounds so escapist, eh?).
Most of the books I purchase nowadays are of the theological sort. Call it catching up from my decade-long hiatus as an self-absorbed agnostic. Shown here are some of the books that I've accumulated in the past 2 1/2 years. I haven't read through a lot of them, but they've served as priceless sources of wisdom: informing me, correcting me, and equipping me to be of better service to other people. Accumulated information that finds no application is simply wasted space between the ears, after all.
Now perhaps you might ask what book in my shelf is the most significant to me. Well, perhaps you need not ask, if you've been checking around my blog. It's pretty obvious, after all.
The Bible isn't really some outdated tome or collection of tales from a bygone era. It isn't even a collection of sayings, advice and airy-fairy stories. It is so much more than that, but don't take my word for it. I'm a believer, so I'm apt to be a biased source. Pick it up and read it for yourself. Don't dismiss it without examining it; that's intellectual dishonesty. Don't take a scholar's word, a skeptic's argument, or even a theologian's treatise for or against it.
Read it.
Get to know the Man behind the Book.
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