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‘Willie’

What a wonderful liberating story! I think about all the people who are searching for love in all the wrong places who would come home to Pa Pa. I plan to get as many copies to people as I can afford.

Willie, you have a made a difference in my life and I do appreciate your heart.

I loved your book, I’m thankful that I did NOT read the Forward or the back cover of the book before I started. I feel that would have really blown it for me.

I don’t like preview!.

thank you, thank you,

I would recommend to all readers to have a box of cleanex maybe two.

between tears of sadness, joy and laughter I was spent. I read it in non stop

Your book is great. I have been "blown away" with your thinking about authority and many other things. Things that I have taken for granted I an now contemplating with much interest– such as marriage is not an institution but a relationship. I hope the book will be made into a movie. I enjoy a music group that, in my openion, would be perfect in some places. The group is "The Secret Garden" it is celtic type. Lots of violin and pipes. The cd that seems might be best is " Once in a Red moon". However they have other music that is beautiful. I have been suspecious that it might be New Ageie–but the words on some that I have heard are right on Christian.

Ouch! My best friend, husband and lover died in November. He was much like the character portrayed in Mac. But through this all I realized that God is good. His goodness holds me carefully when I feel brittle. You have validated my feelings and thoughts on God. Thanks. God Bless Cherime

Dear Willie, I don’t even know how to describe what your story did and is doing to me. It is not easily processed. It is turning my thinking upside down. I am more in awe of God and feel and experience a closer sense of his presence. I have desired and prayed for freedom for many years. After reading your book and some of the comments at the website, I am begfinning to sense I have no idea what freedom in God is. I have no clue as to how to get there and as to how to experience it. I think I am at a huge turning point in my life. My fear of finances (lack of)is coming to a head. I am married, 63 and our financial future looks bleak to me. I am sure it doesn’t look bleak to Him. Your book and the above material on Fear of Finacial Security gives me hope and also anxiety because I confess I really don’t trust Him to take care of me. I am stuck in the homeowner mind set of my generation. Thank you for setting up a way to respond to what God is doing through your book. Carol

Hi Willie.
Just wanted to know is mack a real person living in today’s world or is he a made up charachter in the book. i thought he was real because of the way in which you described knowing him in the forward part of the book and because of the missy project? Anyways wheather a true story or not the way in which god revealed many things to mack testifies with my spirit as true. am looking forward to your response.

Regards Jonathan Hilliar

I just finished “The Shack” it touch my heart in so many ways. I plan to pass it on to family and friends. I thank God that He touched your heart to write and publish this book. May God Bless You. Thank You.

Willie, (Paul)
I am so thankful for your book. It puts into a few words a lot that I want to tell folks. It provides such a good foundation to begin to talk about “love” and who “Papa” is.

I’m so glad we were able to meet yesterday and enjoy some Thai food together. May Sarayu continue to work in your life to demonstrate Jesus the way Papa wants.

George

It’s been more than a year since I read any book, and I came across The Shack. The moment I started reading the book, I realised this wasn’t just any other book. I wasn’t interested in talking with God after many incidents. But this book changed many of my notions and ideas about God. Was a wonderful experience knowing the Love of God. It was an eye-opener. In a simple way, it taught me wonderful lessons. As a high school student, I asked my friend and my cousins to read it too. I hope many more will benifit by reading this awesome book!

Must thank you a lot for making me see things in a different light. Your work is simply innovative! Have no words to explain how wonderful your ideas are! Thanks a million!

Hi, I live in Nashville and work with an author named Matt Bronleewe. A friend was telling me about your book last week. And would you believe an Amazon package showed up at my door just a few days later. Ironically, I just happened to have no plans this wekeend as my husband was away. I read the book last night. Thank you so much for stretchin my notions of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I LOVE thinking beyond what I’ve learned in church and Bible college.

I was suprised to open the book and see my pastor made an endorsement on the inside papers. Funny how small of a world it is! the sentence on the intro here is great… about letting your dreams and visions die and living a life of faith instead. Very challenging to consider! Thanks for writing.

Hello Willie,

Talk about blowing someone away!! You wrote about something similar to what I experienced when my dad pasted away. I losted my dad to cancer seven years ago and I was so full of anger. Yes I can relate to this book. The tears, anger, love the God shows and the final release. Are you sure you did not talk to my husband??

Thank you for writing this book. I will be sharing it with as many people as I can. My husband was going to get it for me for Christmas but I was led to believe he wanted it for Christmas. Anyway, it is now in our home and we will share it as much as possible. I am praying you can get that movie made soon. God Bless you, your family and everyone involved in this wonderful and God breathing project. Thank you!!

Dear Willie,

My name is Oxana and I am an International student from Moldova. A year ago at Fresno Pacific University we had Terry Esau coming as a speaker at college hour after which we all received “Surprise me God” books. We enjoyed listening to him a lot and then it was great going through the experiment. Later I subscribed for newsletters in his website and before Christmas I received one as usually. There he mentioned your book, strongly recommending it by saying “it’ll kill you!”. I immediately ordered it (which I don’t do that much) and you know… it pretty much killed me. Our mother passed away from cancer 3 years ago and it’s been a process of healing for me. It was probably easier for me because I am far away from home, studying here, but not quite easy for my family back there. In this book I found answers to many of my questions and just got closer to “Papa”…It’s much easier to understand what is the relationship with a trinity supposed to be like, you know? I JUST WISH this book would be translated at least in Russian and then I could send it to so many other friends…but for now, I just wanted to tell you: Thank you very much for “The Shack”!

God bless you,
Oxana

Hello,
Thank you for yielding to Papa, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
I look forward to seeing where Papa takes this book.
In His Love,
Becky

I spent 8 hours, non-stop reading your book today. Couldn’t put it down. I’ve purchased several copies from our church to hand out to friends. I wish I could purchase a hundred to have on hand. I so appreciate what Sarayu has done in your life and in the writing of this book. Thank you.

What an amazing book. My husband learned about it from a friend last week at Bible study. He came home and told me about it and I went out and got three copies the next day. My husband, brother and I all have finished the book and were all truly amazed and changed. When I first read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, I felt like I wanted to buy a copy for everyone I knew and this book did the same thing. I will pay it forward to my friends and family I know, just like my husband’s friend did for us. Thanks Willie!! God Bless.

I just sent you a note, but I also wanted you to know that I read your book straight through one Saturday (the first time), then went out and bought 10 copies and gave them away! Wow, what a blessing! God Bless You and Your Family!

Words arn’t GOOD enough to describe this book. PaPa, thank you for never leaving me even when I couldn’t tell by my own accord that you were near. This is a turning point in my insides…..

Many books I start reading I put down half way through. The Shack is the first book I’ve read cover-to-cover in a long time. I read 169 pages in one sitting, then had to wait a week to pick it up again and finish it. And in that week God presented himself and showed me opportunities and recollections of things passed and obligations I’m supposedly under and responsibilities I have and expectations of the future and bad decisions made. Cast in light of what I’d been reading in The Shack I realized I have a choice: to continue living life as I know it or to live life as I want. The way I want to live life is day-by-day, not just in the power of the Holy Spirit, but with Father, Jesus, and Sarayu there. Probing, asking questions, wondering out loud about this moment, RE-casting thoughts and memories in light of God’s deep and abiding love. Willie, I praise God for your children. I suspect without them you would not have written this book for them.
Thanks - Jim.

My husband and I have been reading the book sort of together. He puts it down and I run and pick it up. I put it down, only because we have to, and he grabs it up. We administrate a small House Church. I am getting one for everyone who attends and for some of my fmaily members. I really want a Spanish translation if available.
thanks so much
I have never kept God in a box but now even more than ever. It was recently prophesied over me that all residue of a religious spirit was being removed from me. this was one of the tools God has used to do that.
thanks so much.
Linda Bolton, Milan, TN

Words do not adequately express how I feel about this book. There are times as I read it I think of it as a piece of art. Then there are times when I think of it as life on earth and how we are supposed to love the Lord. I know that it’s catagorized as fiction, but to me it’s real, so real that it’s a bit scary.
I will recommend this book to everyone I know.

My spiritual daughter brought your book to me for my 60th birthday. What a gift!
Beautifully expressed. You wrote the pages of my heart. I lost my wife Kathy to cancer 10 years ago. You have eloquently penned what I have been speaking to others about Papa for many years now. Thank you. I’m headed to Israel this week, but intend to surround your thoughts with my own when I return. I have a teaching program, “He Brought Them Out” on SBN, KCHF TV 11 here in New Mexico and will to share the depth of our relationship with Papa on one of my future shows. Say hi to Papa, Jesus, and Sarayu. Blessings, Bill Ruhl - Global Destiny Ministry - Destiny Church of Albuquerque

Your book was given to me by a lovely lady, who has obviously enjoyed “Papa” in her life. Her husband died in an automobile accident 24 months ago, and yet, she has found new love and life. She shared her book with me, so that I would have a new understanding. I read it all today, after my son returned from Iraq, and was moved. I will be sharing your message in a forum tomorrow on healing.
I hope you don’t mind me quoting from your book. I know it will help others.
Thanks
Linda

I once heard a very wise fellow believer and follower say before a large listening crowd, “it is time that we stop waving the rule book so much, and start enjoying playing the game.” Those of us who truly believe that we enjoy a relationship with our “Papa”, also realize that what we enjoy, we want all of humanity to know and share with us. We can not make the game appealing to others by waving a rule book and not showing them how much fun it is in the playing of the game.

I thank you so much for this book! I will be encouraging others to read it as well. I will be buying it to give away. I work in an industry that serves people for whom all hope is gone from their hearts and minds, I plan on making sure they can read a copy of it also.

Paul,

Your book is truly amazing! I have never cried most of the way through any book before. It really confirms everything God is teaching me. I want to order as many as I can and give them to everyone I know, including my 2,000 plus patients. It is so wonderful to know that each of our stories is but part of the larger story that God is writing every day on this earth. Truth strikes home and makes you either search for your “real” home or run like mad, which makes no sense to me. Thank you again for following Sarayu’s call

Sincerely,

Steven M Hopmann DDS.

Wow, I finished your book yesterday! The best way I can describe this book….”simply deep”. This is the best book I have ever read.
Here is a funny thing, while I was reading this book at the park, with my 6 year old, an asian women sat next to me and starting talking. I had to take a second look when I glanced up at her. I have also had some experiences while I sat in a hospital for 84 days that are hard to explain because I am not sure if anyone will really believe me. I believe God shows up in many ways and he has shown up in my life and he is working through your book. Job very well done. You have earned your crown of glory as far as I am concerned. I,too, have bought more copies to pass around. I can’t wait for all of my friends to read it. We are having an adult bible study on your book during our vaction bible school at church. I can’t wait to read another book or yours.

Peace of Christ,

Melissa, Dothan, AL

I was sad to come to the end of this great book. When I first started reading it I was anoyed and frustrated, but as I continued chapter by chapter I became a believer [i]again[i]. You see I have gone through my own great loss and consequent sadness. I wish is was just a sadness, but if the truth be known I became bitter and angry.

I lost the ability to hear God or maybe it was the ability to [i]want[i]to hear God. I was angry at Him for not stopping my personal loss; after all I was His child and loved Him greatly. Is not that the basis to be qualified to have all pain and suffering never touch your life? Well that is what I believed and so decided God had let me down.

As I walked through this book somehow Poppa gripped my heart when I least expected it and massaged it to life. I know I at the beginnins of recovery, but at least I am there now.

Willie - I have chatted with a few from our local church as to whether they believe this is fact or fiction. Whichever; in the pages of your novel I saw the Lord, I re-membered why I am here and purposed to stop trying to be successful in the worlds eyes and start being fruitful again. This book has been instrumental in getting me back on track as I journeyed to the shack with Mack. My!!!

My husband and I are in a small group bible study of seven couples and we’re reading The Shack. Four couples out of the seven have lost a child due to accidental cause, disease, or suicide. We have all experienced The Great Sadness. We all agree that this book has helped us immensely. We are wondering how you could write so personally about Missy’s death and the grief one goes through from losing a child without having experienced this yourself. The way you expressed Mack’s great loss was exactly the way we felt after losing our precious children. We thank you for helping us understand how to trust God in all aspects of our lives. Your book has given us a sense of peace and hope.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Lori

I couldn’t wait to finish the book to read every single scrap of it, but I was so disappointed when it was over. What a truly beautiful work. It completely changed the way I view God, and that was a change that has been a long time coming.

This is the best book I have ever read and I have read many books! This is what I call a life changing book. This book would set anybody free from guilt and condemnation and it so perfectly answers the question of why bad things happen to good people. Awesome! I have bought 8 books to give to family and friends and I am in the process of buying more. Thank you for such a great gift!

My daughter lives in TN and her church was handing out copies of “The Shack”. She was reading it and kind of telling me about it. I ordered one and then she sent me a copy for Mother’s Day. The one I ordered will be give to someone and I plan on purchasing more and giving them away. There were times when I was like, “What?” but as I thought about what was being said it actually made sense. There were many things that I had never thought of as they were stated in the book. So much of what was said seemed so brilliant and yet so profound. It seemed that it actually making sense was too easy… if you know what I mean. The book certainly changed my thinking on God and his love for us and when things happen that we don’t understand. It opened up so many things in my life and kind of shed light on some things… answers in a way. Thank you! Thank you for this book! I want EVERYONE to read it! As soon as I finished it all I could say was “Wow!” His love is so imense! We can never FULLY understand, but I know it differently now. Lesson learned… I’d take the “Shack” over a Mansion any day. Thank you again and may Papa continue to bless you!

Thank you Thank you for helping me see the big picture of forgiveness and the love relationship God wants to have with us. I have to ask if anyone out there is confuse about church as i am?

I just finished your book “The Shack” last night. I stretched it out as long as I could because I wanted to stay there with Mack, Sarayu, Jesus and Papa. It was a beautiful experience that validated my own spiritual beliefs. Thank you for explaining to the world at large that God is the embodiment of love and forgiveness and not the harsh, punishing ruler I was taught he was when I was a child.

What an amazing book. I want EVERONE I know to read this. I has change me, my thought about God is so different now. Thank you so much for sharing this book.

What a great story! I have laughed, cried, and everything in between while reading this book over the past few days. I cannot begin to tell you how this has been an impact on my thoughts about “life” and the love of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. This is a must read for anyone going thru the trial and tribulations of life, as we know it. As stated in an earlier coment…tissues are a prerequisite!

Thank you!

Where do I start? I’ve been wanting to get deeper in the Lord, PaPa. Your story shows how God looks at us, our garden. Yes, we don’t look at the garden of our shelf or OTHERS.I believe the story is prophetic in ways in what is to come in the Body of Christ. The true Body of Christ is seeking relationship, not “church”. Yes, i believe, this story is timely for the days we are in and going into and will be used to help many to get to know PaPa. Only divine inspiration could of written this story. Sorry. HaHa. I know that we could sit down with a cup of something and probably talk for day, maybe eternity.

Anyway, I’ve been bless’ed and know thousands more will be.

Ron Klein

This book changed my life! I am so much closer to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. All my friends and family members will be getting this book as present for their birthdays! Thanks a million for writing and publishing this book.

Honestly, and truthfully your book was amazing. I am in such awe, and in a state of euphoria at the moment. I read this book all in one day! I could not put it down. The whole world really needs to read this book, and it might help people to open THEIR EYES! Everyone needs to get to know PAPA! This a great, inspirational story and in this day and age all books should be like this one!
Having almost lost my daughter last year due to liver disease, I could relate to many things in this story. But with God’s grace and mercy she was healed and received her “GIFT OF LIFE” last December! Hallelujah!
Thank you for sharing this story.

I read several here who stated they were sadedened somehow in finishing the book (wanting more). I was not for several reasons. On the 26th of April this year I was airlifted to Emmanuel Trauma Center in Portland after a life threathening accident. I don’t remember the first few days there. Many of the “lessons” Mack learned from God at The Shack, I learned before reading the book - there were several other “revelations” which were solidified in Mack’s experience.
I am an ER RN (no, I don’t know Nan) and have taken a short term contract in an Alsheimer’s unit (which I believe was ordained by God before the accident). I was just a couple of pages from finishing The Shack when a couple came in to visit their Dad, when they left they both addressed him as “Papa”. I looked at my patient and thought, “The least of these…”.
God is good in the best pro”verb”ial sense. So, don’t be saddened by no more pages to read in the The Shack - start writing some pages of your own. Sarayu’s there to help.
And I’m still learning…

I have just left you a note in contact but I wanted to leave a message on the board to thank you for such an inspiring book. I could not put it down. I am not supposed to read for too long due to physical restrictions but I read 3/4 of the book on Saturday and the rest on Sunday night. I was mesmerized. I was so drawn in to the circle of Papa, Jesus and Sarayu (the Holy Spirit)and they were just what I knew them to be. I understood the garden metaphor and was completely captivated from start to finish. My spirit was jumping and I know that God’s (Papa’s) church (bride) is in great need of this book and it’s message. May He bless you and your family beyond what you could ask or imagine and may everyone who picks up this book be blessed and their hearts open to a new life with Jesus Christ.

THANK YOU for being a vessel for our “Papa’s” love! I have no doubts that without “”Papa”, Jesus, and “Sarayu”" that you could have written this. And of course, all Glory goes to Him, but I thank YOU, brother, for having been the one that went through everything that you had to go through to become the vessel to deliver such a worthy book. God Bless!!!

Won’t it just be WONDERFUL when we all live this way with HIM. lol ~ CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!

“Tickled pink”,
Ginny

A note of encouragement to continue promoting this book, The Shack. The Lord has used it to affirm things he has been telling me for the past several years. Amen and Amen!

I got the book at the library yesterday and finished it today. I plan to purchase at least one for myself and recommend it to as many as will listen to me. It was WONDERFUL! I am finally learning - after 50+ years - that “Papa” really DOES love me - and so do “Jesus and Sarayu”. I even had a session with “Sophia”. WOW! This book might be “fiction” - but it hit a chord of reality with me. Thank you!

Mr Young,

Dude,

If you do not have a myspace page (which i cant find apparently) you need to make one! I so want to add you to my friends list and stuff. So i am requesting a “THE SHACK BOOK” myspace page!

Grace to you my friend!
God is GOOD!

Nikki Vaughan

I just finished your book and all I can say is thank you! I am a 39 year old female, married with two wonderful children. I was raised in a home full of love by only one parent, my dad. I was raised Catholic but about 6 years ago I was very unhappy with my institutionalized religion and decided to seek out something different that could answer some of my questions. I was welcomed into a local church of Christianity and given a new sense of how you should have a relationship with the LORD and not just be a obiediant servant. Just as I was getting comfortable with my relationship with the LORD I lost my dad. My dad was my hero and i was so sad to lose him but I knew that he was with the LORD now and that he would be at peace but what I was left with was a loss of who I was. I wrapped up all of my security in my dad and once he was gone I was at a loss. I came to understand that I need to let JESUS be my father and turn to him to help me with all of my obstacles in life. Easier said than done. In the midst of all of this I lost two brother-in-laws to death in a months time and then a mere 3 weeks after that I lost my brother to suicide. Well of course I was thrown into the worst depression and sadness that I have ever experienced in my life. I just could not understand or comprehend the pain that this caused me on a daily basis. I wanted answers and there were none. The days just flowed into each other and my life was just wasting away a day at a time. I had lots of support around me but no one could truly understand my pain. After months of anguish I just decided that I could not do anything or go on without the help of JESUS and that’s when I cried and begged him to help me. That’s when everything in my life changed. I was able to come out of my depression and not have to take medication for it anymore, I lost weight, I got a full-time job and became a new person in myself because I knew that the LORD was with me through all of it. I realized that my brothers passing was not a horrible thing that I had to hold onto for the rest of my life, I could let it go even if I didn’t have any answers as to why. What I did know was that no matter what this world would bring to my door as long as I kept my relationship strong with the LORD I would be able to handle it. So your wondering how did your book help? Well recently I have gone through the loss of some close friendships and there has been a lot of hurt feelings and anger between me and these people. During all of this I came across your book in the bookstore and as I read the back of the book I decided it sounded like a good read. Well needless to say this book has been a huge blessing. Even though I feel like these people are judging me and being ugly to me in so many ways I was able to focus on the fact that I am not as horrible as they make me out to be. GOD loves me and I know that I have a strong relationship with him and because of that it has given me the self confidence to not give into the anger of the situation and go on and love myself and know that I am loved no matter what. I am a better person than they expect me to be and I can be in his “likeness” rather than be in my flesh. I can forgive them and go on. I don’t have to like who they are towards me and I don’t have to have a relationship with them because I have my relationship with JESUS and because I have me! I have finally come to a place in my life where I like who I am and that is because I know GOD loves me no matter what. Thank you again for this wonderful journey and I plan to pass it on to mother-in-law to read and I hope that she can finally understand and find peace in her life after her great sadness from the death of her son. Thanks again and keep on writing.

I work in a major US airport. My eyes were drawn to The Shack as I walked by one of the book stores. I bought it, read it, gave it away and bought another for my family. I have been telling everyone I know to read this book. It truly is life changing whether you are a Christian or not. It has reminded me that God loves all us. Shortly after finishing The Shack I had the most awesome God Experience that I have to share. I was taking my break when a young woman traveler sitting next to me started talking to me. In less than five minutes she had told me about all the terrible things that had happened in her life the past few years. I told her about The Shack. I only told her it was about how bad things can happen to good people and that she should read it. She asked me where to find it in the airport and that she was going right over to buy it! I walked away tingling from the top of my head to the soles of my feet as I felt you working through me. Wow, thank You Lord for putting us together. You are awesome.

All i can say is God Bless you and your family.
This book is Awesome. I would not recommend it to a New Believer, someone who is grounded in their faith and doesnt put God in the Box is what I would suggest as the targeted reading market.
This book is Awesome.
Thanks for writing it!
It helped to answer some of the questions and things I have dealt with and struggled with even as a seasoned christian.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. I’m pretty sure I’ll be reading this book again and again and I’ll be sharing with the ones in my life.
All the best!

The Shack how liberating!I have a new freshness in my relationship with Christ after reading this book.
We have a book study with about 15 of us gathering.
In your book Jesus says. ” I dont create institutions; that’s an occupation for those who want to play God….”
You nailed it! I so am there! I want to know more.
Write another book!!!

I am not one to read religious books, but something drew me to this one. I am glad and gratified that whatever it was, made me purchase this book. I have been confused about my own spirituality for a long time, since I was a teenager, and never understood that directive to ‘forgive’. I felt if I did, I would release the one being forgiven, and instead, it will release me. I am still thinking it through and getting my mind around it. If Mack can do it, perhaps I can too.

I wonder about so many things, and this book made me think about a lot of them. I have been embroidering a cross on a piece of muslin, but didn’t know what I wanted to put on it.. a verse? a proverb? Now I know. I am writing “God is a verb.”

Thank you. For making me think and for helping me to start the journey back.

just responding to another “Carol’s” remarks. She is 63, I am 64 and we are sure thinking a lot alike!! And this book is a wonderful way to open the doors to see a wonderful future and all the possibilities.

I am sure it is not cooincidence that this book found it’s way into my hands at this particular place in my life.

I find it so refreshing to have the image of “Papa” as her beautiful big body with black skin and a smile to light up everyone’s heart.

I finished your work today and it was good, Paul. Thank you for opening my eyes to the world of salvation through Jesus.

I sit in church every Sunday worried about my schedule for the week. . .now I will sit and listen to and FEEL the word of GOD.

My wife and I have discussed the book (she read it first). I truly look forward to discuss it more with her and others.

Any way of getting a list of the most profound quotes in the book? I thought of jotting them down as I was reading, but I could not put the book down to pick up a pen!

Thank you, sir, for your story. The world is a better place because you shared your kid’s treasured story with it!

It was like you took my life, spied on my relationship with the trinity, and turned it into a work of fiction! Many of the events that you pose as fiction have either actually happened to me or are eerily similiar. I do not give intimate details of my relationship with Jesus because people think I’m crazy! But this book has enabled me to come out of my closet and to begin sharing again the ‘ordinary’ relationship I have on a day to day basis with my Jesus, my HG, and my DAD! HE is AWESOME!

I finished the book over 4th of July. As I was reading, the book would take me into intercession. I would stop pray and read on. How different our world would be if each person could capture love, unity and respect for each other. The story was truly inspired and directed by the Holy Spirit. That I am convinced of.

Willie, For many many years I have experienced God from a distance. I felt that God loved me but, I felt I wasn’t worthy enough to live in the center of God’s love. About four or five years ago I finally “got it”. Christ is very much in the center of God’s love; I am a follower of Christ and in Christ, therefore, I am in the center of God’s love. Your book “The Shack” nailed it down. I knew this book would become personal when Sarayu told Mack that “the garden is your soul”. Many of us (I) have not gone through what Mack went through but can gleen many things from the book. Thank you.

Awesome awesome book. Opened up my eyes to where I am in my life.
Thank you.

Paul,
I read The Shack twice within three days and it changed my life! Every time Mack railed against God, Papa took it in stride like the parent of a two-year-old throwing a tantrum. It was a new lesson for me to realize we don’t shock God with our tantrums, our mistakes, or even our sins. He already knows what we’ll do, and He has already forgiven us! That blessed my heart and helped me deepen my relationship with my heavenly Father. Thanks for a great insight into the heart of God.

His Afield,

Charles Bridwell
Outdoors Writer
Arkansas

WOW!!what a story. I could relate to this story because I was in a similar situation as Mack was with his dad. Also, it might sound wierd being a pastor and all, but have this opinion (or judgment if you will) that it is disrespectful to God to call him “papa” or “daddy”. This book helped me deal with that. There were times that I wasn’t just reading the book, but it was if I was there in the shack with Mack and the trinity. The unction of the Holy Spirit was making my gut twitch. I don’t think I have ever been closer to the Lord than I am right now. Praise the Lord, what a book.

Great book. It definitely will help some folks relate better to our Creator. God is a wonderful Father and we should be able to feel as if we can walk and talk to Him on our level. One thing that conserns me and I strongly urge EVERYONE to pray and study hard - the ten commandments are still in effect and will be until Jesus returns to take His loved ones home. There is so much evidence in God’s Word for this. Have a super day!

I lived in that shack in Joseph. Your book was recommended by a friend because she knew I was raised in Joseph, she did not know I was raised in that “shack” on main street. With minor changes the shack on the cover was my home. My Great Sadness did not occur in that shack but certainly smaller ones did.

I just finished the book and am still feeling many emotions. The Shack was very disturbing for me, I lost a child 28 years ago, God did not give me a vision of my son being “O.K.” like I pleaded for Him to do, I realize I still feel anger about that.

Many events in my current life are coming together, linking together…The Shack is a part of some spiritual happening for me. I don’t know where it is going but I’m certainly along for the full ride.

I can’t even say thank you for the book yet, though I’m believe one day I will.

I’m confused William P. Young, are you Willie or Paul to your friends?

This was an amazing book! While reading this, I explored my own life and how i view things and GOD! Words cannot express how much this book opened up my heart. Its like having a one on one conversation with the creator of the UNIVERSE! It was AWESOME! I recommend to everyone!