The Shack

I finished The Shack by William P. Young late last night. Wow, what a book!

I'll admit, I was both horrified and intrigued when a friend described this book to me. Their description was about a man who's daughter was murdered and how he deals with it. I immediately thought that the book was going to be a very dark and tortured look into this man's soul. Boy, was I wrong.

This book is about a man who's daughter was murdered and how he deals with it. How he deals with it alone and then through God.

I am in awe that a regular guy could write such a powerful book. I learned so much and there is still more to learn from this book. I definitely need to read it again. Mr. Young put the Father, Son and Holy Spirit into terms that I had never really imagined before. He made them totally relatable, loving and dynamic instead of distant, angry and silent as I once thought they were.

This book has inspired me to reevaluate and renew not only my relationship with God, but also with all the people who are in my life. I am now understanding more clearly specific events that are depicted in the Bible, such as the fall of man and the death of Christ, and I am more understanding of how Christ can work in my life and how I can work my life through him. I want to say more, but I can't give the plot away.

Definitely a must read...more than once!

No Internet? How Did I Survive?!?

Thanks to the old telephone setup in my house, I was without my DSL connection for a whole day and a half...I know, in the grand scheme of things, that is not a long time. But it seemed like an eternity!

My son came home from school yesterday and told me about a story a kid in his class told him, about Dog Man. Yes, Dog Man. And there were pictures, and not any fluffy Fido pictures, according to Son. So, guess who had a major meltdown at bedtime? Son. Wednesdays are already hard enough days because right after school, Son does homework, I pack his lunch and we are out the door headed to church - all in 1 hour. We don't get home until 8:30 (9 in winter), already a half hour past bedtime. Son gets to bed at 9, if we're lucky. Last night? Not so lucky. He started freaking out thinking that Dog Man was going to attack him in the middle of the night. "Can't you look it up on the Internet?" he asks. No...the Internet is broken. That was only the beginning to a VERY looooooooooooong night.

So I get logged on and there are about a bathousand emails, mostly junk, in my Inbox and I didn't even look at my spam folder, which I check daily to make sure that there aren't any good emails in it. I haven't even scratched the surface on the sites I must visit every day. And, my cousin finally decided which dress she wants for a bridesmaid dress (the wedding is in 15 days, yikes!), so I've got to get that ordered tonight so I can get it altered as soon as I receive it. And I need to look up some stuff on Craigslist. I LOVE Craigslist more than eBay.

So, I guess I did survive. I certainly had more time to get things done, like talk to Sears guys about a furnace in a 3+ hour meeting that should have been only 90 minutes, or to get started on cleaning and organizing the basement - which didn't happen because the Sears guys were here for way too long. And I do have mobile email on my snazzy new phone, but its so hard to reply on - I'm just not a good texter.

Well, off to get caught up on my browsing.