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By: Julie Sanders

Julie Sanders — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:58:40 +0000

Thank you

By: Lauren @ 6:26

Lauren @ 6:26 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:27:33 +0000

Wow! I just got done reading the book, and I just may have some of my friends read it. There were a lot of moments in the book where I thought I was going to cry. Those moments I loved the most because it was very touching to my heart to the point where I would just say “awww” out loud, and then realize that I’m talking to myself out loud which I normally don’t do. Reading this book really makes you think a second time about Jesus and his death, about God and the holyspirit. The ONLY thing I was a little bummed about is when I first started reading the book I found that it was fiction. While reading the book I completely forgot that the book was fiction and actually thought everything in it was real. Then, at the end of the book once again I remembered that it was fiction. Now that I realize it’s fiction I’m a little disappointed because I truly wish for everything to be real. Not the death of Missy or any of the tragic search or any of that terrible stuff, but actually meeting God, Jesus, and the Holyspirit. It would’ve made a great testimony. I really wish that Mack was real also, so he could spread his personal testimony in reality. Another thing that you find happening while reading a book like this is when a major event that takes place in the book that is so amazing and incredible and it all turns out to be a dream. So sad, but definitly it truly is worth reading the book. The events that happened, everything that goes on in an individuals mind, it truly gets a tug at your heart.

By: "Doc" Docto

"Doc" Docto — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:43:00 +0000

Read the book (3) times … listened to the Audio Book (2) times and praying that God will continue to show me Truths about HIM.

May we continue to GROW in the Grace, Love and Knowledge of Papa Abba Father’s LOVE through Jesus Christ our Beloved Savior.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:37:47 +0000

Really loved the book. Just finished it today and puts a lot of things into a different perspective. To me it’s almost like a second bible. Everything in the book and the way things are talked about/explained brings the understanding of what God and Jesus are really like down to an earthly understanding. I loved the way everything was written to make sense and at the same time humorous. It made me really stop and think about different situations in life and how to handle them. Thank you soooo much for writting this book (even if it is fiction)!!!!

By: donna

donna — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:46:17 +0000

Even now as I type this I find myself very emotional. For a long time I seem to have missed something and knowing in my soul as it may be said, I never could figure it out completely. I do not believe I have fully and whose to say I ever will. However my mother brought this book the shack from out of town for me to read, I put it in a bag I carry to work and did not think much of it. A few weeks later a woman at my job said ” There is this book you have to read the shack”. I of course replied how my mom had just given it to me. Another coworker a month or more later said the same thing to me. I took it out of the bag and began reading it. Maybe it is coincidence but I choose to believe that it was something beyond that. Perhaps your fiction is my note. I read the many comments of believers and missionaries and I am none of these I am a broken person praying daily for something, anything… So I would like to say to you Mr. Young nothing more than thank you, you were blessed with this to not only touch the many but personally myself.

By: Mary Roark

Mary Roark — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:15:41 +0000

Oh, my gosh! Forgive me for all those misspellings up there. I know to proof read everything and I didn’t do it this time. So sorry! hopefully it didn’t take away from the message.
Mary Roark again.

By: Mary Roark

Mary Roark — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:12:23 +0000

I love how Mack was visited by a “Today’s” God, Jeasus, Holy Ghost and Wisdom. It is so much easier to relate to them on a personal level when they are not speaking in, “Thee, Thou and eth.” It would only make sense that God, AKA, Papa, would speak to us in today’s language.

I am a bible school granduate and I have been searching for this “Papa, Jesus, Sarayu, and everyone forgets about Wisdom. If it wasn’t for her teaching Mack about judgement, he would have never gone to the next step of forgiveness and healing.
I really loved hour Sarayu told Mack that his daughter was blaming herself for her sister’s death. The holy spirit will do that on a regular basis if you tune in. He/she will speak to your heart about things that only he/she knows about other people. That is how people know it must be of God because no one else could possibly know these things.

Truely love the book and it will get around. Over the next few years, a whole new world of people in relationship with God will emerge and there will be more love, patience, understanding, giving and trust in a fallen world.

always,
Mary Roark, Texas

By: Roberta Knutson

Roberta Knutson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:46:55 +0000

I just finished your wonderful book. Thw way the Trinity was explained and personified was so enlighhtening. I was particularly intriguedd with the quotes that began each chapter. Chapter 17 offers “Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” —Author unknown. Those are the final words of each stanza of the hymn “Come, Ye Disconsolate.” The words were penned by Thomas Moore and Thomas Hastings.

Come, ye disconsolate, wher-e’er ye languish;
Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Joy of the desolate,, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure,
Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure.

Here see the bread of life; see waters flowing
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above;
Come to the feast of love; come, ever knowing
Earth has no sorrow but Heaven can remove.

I’m sure the tune was floating in your subconsious, too, when you wrote those words. The trouble is, this beautifully written hymn is not in the newer hymnals. I had to search my old sunday school hymnal to find it. I wanted to share its message with you.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:24:40 +0000

I just finished your book-it was amazing…knowing now that your wrote it for your children makes it seem even more special. I laughed and cried when I read the part where Mack is taken to a area outside where he sees Missy playing with her siblings…how this meeting to the kids would be remembered as a dream…and how this meeting was for Missy as much as it was for Mack.

After the death of my dear grandfather and again after a friend had died-I dreamed of them-a dream full of a love and a peace I have never felt in my waking hours-no words were spoken only via a hug and the holding of a hand-we said goodbye. I feel comfort in knowing now that my dreams were for them as much as for me. Thanks for a great read!

By: Nicole M. Bear

Nicole M. Bear — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:57:41 +0000

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