The ShackWilliam T. Young
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Excellent look at spirituality for everybody, everywhere...in every circumstance. Introducing a God of "inclusiveness"...the God who knows you well enough to invite you for a weekend look into the mystical! This book is flying off the shelves...the message is clear...people want more than a paycheck, more than a diploma, and some answers to the pain of life in the everyday. The Shack opens some wonderfully mystical doors...
This is an inventive and loving perspective of a God-For-All.
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Sounds like a good read. I will have to check it out.
Hi Ric! Love your afternoon show on V100...we listen here at the office and I take you home with me at 5!
I am going to pick up this book...you are usually right on with suggestions...I'll let you know what I think.
Shel
thanks Shelly...appreciate the listening to the afternoon show!
I started this book last night. I usually read from 2-3 books before sleeping...this was the 3rd for last night. It really moves along! Mystery, suspense, spiritual overtones and solid story telling...I'm looking forward to getting back to it soon!
Keep in touch....any suggestions on a July read?
Hey...if you're reading along and want to suggest future reads for our blogger group here...email me!
Ric and friend...only six months...not bad...Chapter 2 Begins with "Nothing makes us more lonely than our secrets" by Paul Tournier....wow there's food for thought before you even begin this chapter. Then Young uses his descriptive wording by saying "At times he could feel The Great Sadness slowly tightening around his chest and heart like the crushing coils of a constrictor, squeezing liquid from his eyes until he thought thre no longer remained a reservoir." I used that line last week about a situation I was going through and made the point...maybe a little too dramatic but that is how it felt in the moment....Keep reading...more great stuff to come
Wow..that is a dramatic phrase...I don't even want to know what made you think of using it!
Thanks! Looking forward to a meeting at the cabin!
...about half through this book...at times I felt like closing it and going on to something else. Some of the "GOD" moments seemed right out of "Oh God", the movie...or a Morgan Freeman-plays-God-flick. I don't mind the "upside-down" perspective of the God reality...I just feel as though I've seen it all from Hollywood. However...just when I'm about to put it down, there's a little "hit"...a moment...a glimpse that brings me back. I will stay with it and finish. It's a short read...and frankly...I'm expecting that GOD is playing with me all through it anyway...is there a better reason?
...forgiveness is the real power.
This is a good read if you are ever caught in that "how can I really realate to God" funk.
"The Shack" allows a glimpse of a more street-wise God..one who really "feels" your pain and never stops loving you. Forgiveness is the key...the really BIG forgiving...not the little day-to-day brushes with frustrating people that you can handle with a brush-off....no, God wants you to face your real "stuff"...and not with "judgement", but with compassion. You are encouraged to reconcile the really "huge" blocks that stunt your growth and strangle your happiness quotient. In "The Shack", perspectives are turned upside town...you will probably want to adopt these insights...and yet...you may struggle with their "believability"...and there is the rub....what can you believe...what will you believe?
Ric,
I don't usually listen to your show (not because it isn't good,but because I am usually not near a radio at that time) but was coming home today and happened to hear you talking about "The Shack." I thought it was a great book, insights into the Trinity that surprise me to be written by a mortal. But the most surprising thing about this book is how many people I hear that are reading it and then feeling that they need to do something because of reading it--something good. I think this is one I want to read a second and third time.
Joy
JOY,
Glad we caught you listening today!! I agree on the Trinity disclsure...this book might draw an on-the-brink believer over the edge! Glad you enjoyed it too...and thanks for the comment!
Ric,
Now you need to read "He Loves Me" by Wayne Jacobsen.
Joy
Joy,
I'll get it soon...thanks for the suggestion!
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