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This is a Christian book about yelling out in angry to God and having the perfect answers.
I just finished a book that was so wonderful, I can't help but pass it along
"The Shack" by Wm. Paul Young
I found it at Walmart for $10.43 -
It is about a man with 5 kids and his youngest is raped and murdered in this shack, so God takes him back to the same shack to heal him. For me the image of God as a male is NOT comforting, so God who says He can take any shape, because He is a spiritual being - He takes the form of a elderly black woman (who reminds me of the grandmother in "I Robot". She is just pure love - bird come to her and eat out of her hands. Then she brings them to her face and they kiss. The Holy Spirit is a vision of light who floats around and kinda looks Asian. Last for all is Jesus who, of course, is middle eastern, because he is Hebrew. Jesus takes him for a walk on the water to reach the other side of the lake.
This book addresses all the questions I have always had. The man, Mack, in furious with God for allowing his innocent daughter to be murdered. God answers back with a gentle, loving voice (allowing his anger, never scolding him). He says He understands and He was there with his daughter. Then Mack yells You failed Your own son. You said you would never leave me or forsake me and yet You failed Him at the cross. Jesus yelled out for You and You left him alone. God says I never left Him, I was there with Him, it is just He could not feel me because the pain was too great. Then you look down to her arms, and Her wrists bear the same scar of being on the cross just like Jesus. I cried so hard I could not finish reading that chapter until the next day.
All my anger, all my pain, all my questions just like I would ask them. - I once yelled out to God -"I hate You. and You don't exist. Then a couple of well chosen cuss words" Venting all my anger at him for what He allow to happen to me. I KNEW the one unforgivable sin is to deny He exists. If someone doesn't believe Jesus lived, rose from the grave, and died for me, and that God is the all and all - that is the one unforgivable sin. That is why I told Him He doesn't exist. I really wanted to test if He would cast me away for daring Him to strike out in all my venom. -- My therapist said, You can't claim someone does exist, if you are talking to Him. You have to believe he exists just because you are yelling at Him. Wow! reality it sucks.
My favorite phrase "Reality is highly over rated"
and "I am not stubborn. And I will fight to the death to prove it"
Posted on 09/30/09, 08:09 pm