Lesa C. (4fabfelines) reviewed A odd and compelling book about God as Mother and Father on 2/5/2009 + 112 more book reviews

Having issues myself with God the Father, i really was very surprised in this book.
Mack is a man haunted by the past, a terrible father that used whips as well as scriptures to justify his hate, mack grows up with a warped view of God.
He married a wonderful woman that loves god and has a loving relationship with Him.
One day Mack takes the family to a camping outing, and alll is well until a caneoing accident happens, While Mack is rescuing the teens from drowning a predetor has been targeting the youngest daughter Missy.
He takes Missy and leaves with her, Mack and family unaware until the emergancy with the teens is over. By that time, it is later and the man and Missy are long gone.
Some college boys see the perp leave in a old green truck and they think they see Missy, a APB is sent out and the truck is tracked to a remote area in Oregon, a old shack.
There, is found a bloody dress the one Missy was wearing when she was last seen.
The days and nights go by, and Mack is trying to heal, but it is not happening. Slowly he decends into great sorrow.
One icy day, he gets a letter in the mail. It says to return to the shack, love papa.
He is angry and puzzled. Does the abductor want to toment him? His father is dead, and God is called Papoa by his wife but it cannot be God can it.
So, through a set of circumstances, he ends up borrowing a friends jeep, loads it up and goes.
He confronts God, and his sorrow,what happens next is astounding to him, and shakes the core of what he thinks of God.
God the Father is a big aunt Jeminma
Black Woman, the Holy Spirit is a japanese multicoloured spirit and Jesus is just a regular looking middle eastern guy.
Mack has the core of his being shook and learns lessons from each one seperatly and then together.
I love how Papa, tells him, What were you expecting God the Father like Gandolf?
His journey is transforming and he learns that god is not responsable for Missy's death, and that God loves the abductor alos and wants the best for him too.,
Mack learns forgiveness, for his father and God in turn.
He learns about himself and meets Wisdom also. God shows Mack where Missy's body is hid and they have a service for her.
When Mack "comes to" he is transformed and he leaves to go home.
He is hit by a drunk driver, and is hospitalized.
He is able to tell his wife of the trip, heal with his oldest daughter who blames herself for missy's death, and heal with friends,.
The authorities go with Mack and he shows them the cave where God had shown him Missy laid.
What i loved about this book was it streached your bounds of thinking about God, God is as much male and female, and the poetic veiws of the holy spirit and Jesus. What is did not like, was it got pretty darn deep into some spiritual things and unless you had traveled that way you would have no clue what they were talking about.
I did i understand the Great Sadness.,
Good book to give a friend that is questioning and hurting esecially one that has Father issues.

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