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The book begins a little slow and drawn out, just the first chapter though; it was very descriptive about things. Anyway as the book progresses it shares the story of a tragedy.

A father and his five children drove a few hours from home to go camping for the weekend. One morning the youngest daughter Missy was sitting at the picnic table coloring and her brother and sister were out in the lake on a canoe. The dad was cleaning up from cooking and then he heard his older kids scream and looked out into the lake and the canoe was in the process of capsizing. The dad swims out to the canoe and had to free his son because his life jacket was stuck on the canoe and he was under water. The dad had to drag him to shore and give him mouth to mouth resuscitation; he eventually coughed up water and woke up. Meanwhile his sister had already swum to shore. After all the excitement they went back to the campsite. Missy was not coloring at the picnic table anymore. Long story short they searched frantically for her and realized someone had taken her. Authorities were notified and a few tips lead them to a shack a few days after Missy went missing. All that was in there on the floor was Missy’s red dress covered in blood. Missy’s body was never found

Three and a half years later, dad whose name is MacKenzie walked out to the mailbox in the middle of a ice storm. There was a letter for him, he opened it and it said
It’s been a while. I’ve missed you.
I’ll be at the shack next weekend if you want to get together. –Papa
Papa is the name that this family has always called God. Throughout all of the children’s lives, the mom, Nan would pray to Papa. MacKenzie was emotionally distraught for the rest of the week debating back and forth about going, and the cruelty of the situation, could God really be contacting me? Why would they do this? Is Missy’s killer trying to mess with me? In the end MacKenzie decided to go to the Shack. He did not tell his wife and family as they were going to her parents for the weekend.

MacKenzie arrived at the Shack and it was in fact God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Papa/God was a round loving African American woman, Jesus was a man who wasn’t very attractive and the Holy Spirit was an Asian small woman. The main story of this book is about the relationship of humans, in this case MacKenzie with the Holy Trinity. This is not a religious book it is a spiritual book with some amazing insight on how life relates to these relationships with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and what we as humans are capable of understanding if we try and believe. This book has a warm and fuzzy feeling. I really don’t want to tell you the details because this book is a quick and easy read because there is always the what if??? And it makes you think outside the box and the” religious” things we have learned over the years, especially if you don’t have a spiritually relationship or you aren’t where you would like to be as far as your faith or spirituality. This book is the story of MacKenzie spending the weekend with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit-how fun and exhilirating would that be!!
The most special aspect of me reading this book is that my 16 year old son read it first and told me to read it. He said that the author of this book wants people to tell everyone you know about this book so it gets turned into a movie-not for the money but to educate and build your own relationship with the Holy Trinity. I haven’t finished the book yet, I am waiting for the weekend after school ends. I am looking forward to the ending. I am going to purchase this book for several people for Christmas presents.

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