I just finished reading William P. Young’s, ‘The Shack’ (Thanks Chris M. for the heads up). I highly recommend this provocative novel/allegory. It is about a father whose daughter is tragically kidnapped at a family vacation. The book offers a compassionate, very sensitive presentation of the wildly ranging emotional turmoil and mourning involved in such a vast loss— the feeling ’stuck’ in “The Great Sadness’. But it doesn’t stop there. It goes on to invite the father (and the reader) into a stunning healing journey that intimately involves the entirety of the Triune God.

How does a God-follower who has suffered such pain find the healing combination of a mercy/healing/forgiveness that does not treat justice lightly? Read ‘The Shack”.

“Mackenzie, Judgment is not about destruction, but about setting things right.”

Mack smiled, “I don’t feel stuck anymore.”