Comments on: Traveling Blind

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:55:55 +0000

My brother is legally blind and totally color blind. He is the director of an organization that provides Christian reading materials to the blind population. My husband and I had a chance to work with him on several occasions and the what we came away with is this: blind people face the same issues as sighted, only they face them without site. Profound, right? Imagine being in a hospital room, facing procedures, without site. Think of facing housing and shopping and transportation without site. How do you get to church? read your mail? look through you Bible? (A braille bible is about 6ft of shelf space, CDs, DVDs, etc. have issues of a fragile nature and lack search ability.)
I really appreciate you for calling attention to being kind to the blind and foreign visitors but I would like to ask for one further step of readers. Please ask God to lead you to a disabled or elderly or blind person in your community that you can help to meet their needs, even if that need costs you.
Oh, by the way. The NLT is now available free of charge in a digital format.. used by the digital readers that the “Talking Book” program uses. It can be navigated by book and chapter as I understand it, and can be obtained with a phone call! This is literally the first time a modern translation is in this format and my brother had a huge part in this and I just want to tell every blind person everywhere that it is available. Did I mention that it is free?

http://blind.ag.org/

Oh, I would like you to know that your writing has changed me. I learn from you in so many ways, deep speaks to deep as I read and meditate. Maybe the most important lesson you taught me is that I don’t need to run from the hard questions, take the prepackaged answers, keep my head in the sand, fight off the thoughts that scream out something very different from the answer religion provides. Maybe that is more than one lesson.?
Thank You! I feel less alone when I have your book in hand as you seem to take my thoughts and place them on paper and provide the tools for me to wrestle them into an understanding that I can live with.

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:33:51 +0000

Read you books – Jesus I Never Knew, Disapointment with God and I am reading Prayer, will finish it soon before I read Soul Survivor. I must say, my eyes are open now and will become wider when I finished all of your books 🙂 I also recomend your books to other people and buy them to give as gifts. I am really blessed by your books. Reading Prayer after Jesus I Never Knew and Disappointment with God is not a coincidence. Now I know whom to pray to or pray for, I also got the idea how to deal with unaswered prayer or disappointment.
Thanks.
Esther.
p.s Please come to Borneo, more mountains here to climb.

By: charyl :)

charyl :) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:19:48 +0000

Hi Sir Philip,

Please be kind to tell Ma’m Janet I’d do my best to be part of that “everyone”. ^_^

And yep, i’m still looking forward to the next time you can visit the Philippines in God’s time (I hope it’s in Cebu City by then). You’re a blessing more than you could ever know. Keep on!

🙂

By: Kelly Cramer

Kelly Cramer — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:36:35 +0000

The Tandem book sounds interesting. I’ll have to keep looking for it and see when it comes out in English. Right now I’m reading The Great Bicycle Expedition by William C. Anderson.

Thank you for your blog. I’ve recently started reading it, and really enjoy it.