therese,
you have described the message in
the Shack perfectly without reading it yet. I am so sorry to hear about your granddaughter. How perfect that someone gave your daughter this book and that she was able to receive the [for lack of a better word to describe it]
living words of comfort and solace that flow through this simple story of human pain and suffering.
...and as you said, even though we've heard these concepts before, this story is unique and different in its presentation, enabling people to actually
'feel' and visualize' the intention of a beautiful spiritual existence that does not condemn, that is missed by so many people when delivered through institutionalized religion.
This book is not for those looking for intellectualism. It would only lend arrogance to a story that is profound and beautiful in its simplicity and spirituality. It's actually takes one through unspeakable tragedy in a manner that i could get my head around. All with no condemnation.
i'm going to read it again.
paula
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Originally Posted by therese
Paula...and all...I want to share with you something that happened to my younger daughter in May of this year. She lost her 26-year old daughter in a horrific auto accident. Shortly after Lindsay died, someone gave my daughter a copy of The Shack telling my daughter that he felt that this book spoke particularly to the pain and suffering that my daughter was experiencing. Kim told me that it was exactly what she needed at that particular time in her life...that she literally could not put the book down. My pwp is presently reading this book, and just this morning, she shared a few passages with me. We discussed the fact that many of the concepts presented, we already knew...BUT it is the way in which these concepts are portrayed that makes all the difference in understanding many things in life that just seem elude what our finite minds are able to understand. As I said to my pwp...it is such simple reading, but its message is so profound...giving us a much clearer view about so many questions that we have about what we consider to be inequities, i.e., why the suffering and pain, etc. The passage that my pwp read to me this morning brought us both to tears...perhaps, in part, because it seemed to "speak to" the actual tragedy of losing my granddaughter...but, I believe, too, that it would have brought most people to tears. I have only begun to read the book, but, I assure you, as soon as my pwp finishes reading it (which should be very soon in that it's difficult for her to put it down)...I'll be reading it. It is NOT a religious book...it is spiritual.
I hope all of you are doing well...I posted a thread earlier today in which I mentioned that I had not posted here in a very long time...and here I am posting twice within a very few hours.
Therese
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