Papa, Mack, and Me
Do people really know God and how he works in relationship with everyone? For a long time now, I have not. Reading the book, The Shack, has helped me to have a new understanding on the topic. There are a couple ways that I can relate my faith life to this book too. I can relate to the painful event that the main character, Mack, experiences at the start of the story. Also, I currently relate with how he feels throughout the story and the struggles he has gone through. These similarities within my life and the book are why my faith life comes in to play too.
The Shack is a story about finding God in a world full of pain and sadness. The main character’s name is Mackenzie Allen Philips and he experiences a great sadness in …show more content…
He experiences a great sadness for many years after his painful event. This leads him to question everything that he cares about and essentially God. He starts asking himself what if questions like if he had not gone on their trip, or if they left a day earlier and thinks of himself as a failure (Young, 65). He loses hope, faith with God, and also believes that God is evil and wanted his daughter killed since nothing was done to stop it from happening. Going to God at this point was useless for him because “he was not getting the answers he needed and he wanted more” (Young, 66). This slowly eats at him through the story until he is able to forgive God and seek guidance through …show more content…
Mack was able to turn back to God after a magically mysterious weekend with Him. I will probably never experience something that extreme where I will actually meet God in person and get to spend time with Him, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. That is okay with me though because I do not need to have that to believe He has a plan. I do not go to church or go to religious activities like Mack did in the book, but I still experience Him just the same as everyone else. This book helped me reassure myself that God loves each and every person, and He merely invites us all to have relationship with Him. God lets us keep our freedom to pick if we want to listen to
Do people really know God and how he works in relationship with everyone? For a long time now, I have not. Reading the book, The Shack, has helped me to have a new understanding on the topic. There are a couple ways that I can relate my faith life to this book too. I can relate to the painful event that the main character, Mack, experiences at the start of the story. Also, I currently relate with how he feels throughout the story and the struggles he has gone through. These similarities within my life and the book are why my faith life comes in to play too.
The Shack is a story about finding God in a world full of pain and sadness. The main character’s name is Mackenzie Allen Philips and he experiences a great sadness in …show more content…
He experiences a great sadness for many years after his painful event. This leads him to question everything that he cares about and essentially God. He starts asking himself what if questions like if he had not gone on their trip, or if they left a day earlier and thinks of himself as a failure (Young, 65). He loses hope, faith with God, and also believes that God is evil and wanted his daughter killed since nothing was done to stop it from happening. Going to God at this point was useless for him because “he was not getting the answers he needed and he wanted more” (Young, 66). This slowly eats at him through the story until he is able to forgive God and seek guidance through …show more content…
Mack was able to turn back to God after a magically mysterious weekend with Him. I will probably never experience something that extreme where I will actually meet God in person and get to spend time with Him, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. That is okay with me though because I do not need to have that to believe He has a plan. I do not go to church or go to religious activities like Mack did in the book, but I still experience Him just the same as everyone else. This book helped me reassure myself that God loves each and every person, and He merely invites us all to have relationship with Him. God lets us keep our freedom to pick if we want to listen to