THE SHACK

After reading The Shack and being touched and moved so deeply in my own intimate relationship with God, I understood that at one point in the book we are faced with a decision. A decision to let our minds go "tilt" and completely shut them off at that point to any possibilities that God may want to say something significant to us in the deepest part of our hearts, or to keep reading and open our hearts to Him and allow Him to show us just one of the infinite facets of His personality and deepen our relationship and knowledge of Him as a loving and caring and gentle Father. Papa. I chose the latter, while asking the Holy Spirit to walk with me through the reading, and am sooooo thankful I did! My relationship with Him has been absolutely revolutionized. My love for Him has deepened considerably as well as my capacity to BE LOVED by Him! Our communication has increased a thousand fold!! And the freedom I have found to be what and who He has created me to be has burst forth in my life in an amazing flurry of joy and peace and Love!!

I HIGHLY recommend this book. Ask God to speak to you and guide you as you read and discover the heart of your Father.

As I was looking online for more on The Shack I found a letter from a Pastor. Rev. Lawrence Rae. A time of prayer that he had with God, and God's response to him. BEAUTIFUL!



Lawrence - to Papa

Lord, The Shack, struck a chord deep within my heart. I heard you speak in such "human" terms I was wildly blessed. I believe the portrayal of you, although totally inadequate to your Ultimate Being, was a vividly clear expression of your merciful interface with us common folk. I loved you deeply, emotionally, radically in this book. Thank You for encouraging Paul to write it.



Papa - to Lawrence

You are right when you speak of the inadequacy of this, or any other book to display ‘all’ of My person, character and glory. I AM…and there is none beside Me.

I am not a kind, black woman, a wraith, or an elderly, rather tall and slim white man. But Paul touched My being by faith and what flowed out of his collaboration with his friends is definitely a work of the Spirit. As We watched and heard and saw the oozing out on paper of Our love and joy and laughter; Our power and delight, Our mercy and grace and Our overall creativity, We were delighted with the substance of the text. So narrow a volume - so wide an expanse of thought and devotion.

It won’t be liked. It won’t be tolerated. It will be loved or despised. As each reader first steps across the threshold of the Shack, they will have an opportunity, granted by Me, to be deeply offended. As their hearts reel at the possibility of God stepping down as far as a big black hug, they will either be un-stumbled and touch the Son at Calvary, knowing the wounds also engraved in My wrists, or they will sentence themselves to a bounded vertical relationship; a ‘thus far and no farther’ tension that never squeals with glee as I tickle them unmercifully or never groans deep within as I press my fingers into the open wounds of their own broken souls.

Knowing Me is the goal. Paul knows Me. Better still, I know Paul, and I have trusted him enough to reveal a little of Myself to him. How do you like Me now?