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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.
Wm. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest.
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July 04, 2009: The Shack is thought provoking. It makes you take a good look at yourself and the relationship you have with your higher power. Do you really believe what you profess? Are you certain? Have you talked to your Higher Power recently? Have you listened to what the Higher Power is saying to you? When all goes right, it is easy. When the bumps show up, it gets a little dicey. That is when you need a book like this to bring you up short. To make you confront what you really believe.
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July 04, 2009: If you have ever wondered why God allowed tragedy in your life, this will be an informative, inspirational and comforting read for you. It emphasizes the truth that God has granted humans free will, and sometimes our wrong choices result in tragedy that causes awful suffering for someone else. It emphasizes God's love for everyone, good or bad, right or wrong. It shows that we may not understand God's ways, but we need to rest in and trust what God does. In the study group I was in, people felt that the book sometimes went with "pat" answers and that it ended in a way that is often not true to human experience. However, it will help you think through some things in life and give you a new look at them.
It is a valuable, thought provoking book.I Also Recommend: Why Me?.