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The Shack - The Great Sadness
By Lara | June 26, 2008
Well…I hope there is at least ONE person joining me…LOL…
Please note…this book is not for the faint at heart and there will be some that cannot handle it and will even find reasons to criticize it. However, I can tell you thins…if you press in you will learn so much more than you ever imagined about the heart of God and His GREAT love for us!!
I let my teenage daughter read it and when I asked her what was the main thing you got out of the book she said; “God isn’t some big angry person up there just wanting to hurt us. He really loves us…a LOT!”
This is a VERY deep book. The Great Sadness is what I am going to talk about today….and let me tell you it is VERY sad.
I am a Mother and the loss of a child…well…it is the worst pain any parent can ever feel. In the great sadness, our main character, Mack, takes us back to where the great sadness began…several years ago he took his kids camping and on the day they are to go home, the two oldest get into some trouble on a canoe and take their dad’s attention away from the shore where Missy is and out to them…when they all get back to shore they discover that the youngest, Missy, is gone! Later to find out that she has been abducted. 
They discover that Missy was not only abducted, but taken to an abandoned shak in the woods and killed…though her body is not found there, her dress and blood are.
OK…so yeah…Great Sadness??? That’s an UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
In this chapter, the reason Mack is thinking back, is because he received a hand written note in his mail box that said; “Meet me at the shack. - Papa.”
“Papa” is the word that Mack’s wife, Nan uses to call God. So he is VERY puzzled…confused…and angry. He is wondering WHO would write such a thing and if it IS God…WHY would He even attempt to bring Mack back to that AWFUL place??!
Hmmmm……
Next Time we will find out who and WHY this note was written….
What do you think so far???
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