“Dear Eric, I don’t know why I’m having such a hard time getting focused on this letter to you. I started nearly three weeks ago, and I keep pressing the delete button. So here I go again. Let me start with what happened earlier this week, the trip I mentioned on the telephone. I went to Tyler, Texas, on Tuesday and came back on Wednesday. This is the first time I have done anything in the way of promotion of The Message. The publicist at NavPress prevailed on me several months ago, said she thought this was really important. She was wrong. I was in the wrong country with the wrong people. The”