What I'm Reading: The Shack

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book! (Amazon.com)

I just started reading this book and am only through a handful of chapters. But my friend Christy raved about it. Then my friend Brenda loaned it to me. On the very day that I borrowed Brenda's copy, I ran into my friend Karen. She told me that she was reading a great book and wanted me to read it when she was done. She pulled it out of her tote bag and it was the very same book that I borrowed from Brenda. I took that to be Divine Affirmation.

The book? The Shack by William P. Young (AKA Wm. Paul Young), published by Windblown Media in 2008.