• The Shack Book
Just finished reading The Shack. Incredible read. Although this book is fiction, the author has incredible insights into the inner workings pain and suffering combined with insights into the theology of the Trinity. Although it could be super analyized, it is a novel, after all. It did challenge me and caused me to go deeper into my awareness of God working all around me.
The story is about….
A man named Mac who is the father of five children. His younger daughter was abducted, while on camping trip, and was apparently brutally murdered by a serial killer. There was some evidence that the murder, tragically, happened in an abandoned mountain cabin in Oregon. Four years later, while still very much grieving over her loss, Mac received what he thought to be a “prank” letter inviting him to return to that same cabin. He reluctantly returns to this cabin, only to find the resources equivalent to “a mountain-top experience” and is transformed forever at that place.
I read the book in close to one week between Christmas and New Year’s. However, when I closed the book, I could feel in my spirit a deepening, a greater awareness of God around me, His working in everyone that I met. It might be too early to really tell, but I think this book will have some lingering effect on my awareness of God at work around me, at least that is happening now. This was not a theological book, as I have known theological books in Seminary and Bible School. It was however, a book that grapples with life and death realities from man’s point of view and from God’s point of view. It gave me many new insights into pain and suffering from God’s point of view. We certainly could use more insight into that, I know I could. The book held my interest with just enough twists, turns, and surprises to maintain my sense of adventure. Everything significant happened in this shack.
I recommend the book highly. A good read! You can go here for more information on The Shack
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