Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Shack!


I was visiting my Mom this past week and she loaned me this book called 'The Shack' by William Young. It is by far one of the best books I have read in a long long time.


I can't believe how much I cried (B-A-W-L-E-D) during this book...from the gripping beginning to the heartwarming ending - I serious am loving this book.


This is a little summary I took from the Shack's website:



Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!


I've had some revelations about myself reading this book, which is largely in part why I cried, I'm sure (despite having this heartache, joy and total love for the people in the book!) I have for so long felt a distancing between myself and God...I grew up going to church - I was in the praise team - I enjoyed it. For the past ten years I have only gone to church when visiting home - and it's because I've become lazy and unsure about going sans-spouse.


Don't get me wrong I don't believe I need to go to church to feel that sense of fellowship, but there is something that I am missing in that relationship and I'm not sure how else to attain it.


Anyway - regardless of your religion or sense of spirituality, this book is really well written and enjoyable...I would love to hear that some of you have read it and what your thoughts are!!