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The Shack Book Report

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Reading The Shack affected me both spiritually and morally. It was challenging to read some of the ideas this book had, spiritually. Although, I related it to many different events that I have faced in my own life. I have related Mack to my own father and his strength towards our family. Also, I have related it to losing my grandfather, who played a huge role in my life growing up. Without these two people in my life, I would have not been the person I am today. An impactful moment, I had with the book was when Mack was telling his kids the story of the Indian Princess. This princess sacrificed her own life for her tribe’s lives because her tribe was sick, and it was the only way to save their lives. After the story was told, Katie and Missy continued to ask questions to their father, Mack. The question that struck me the most was when Missy ask, “Then how come he’s so mean?” She was referring to God, and how Jesus sacrificed his life for us just like the Indian Princess.
Missy wanted to know how a man can make his people do horrid things like sacrificing themselves for others. Mack responds fairly well to her by saying “Sweetheart, Jesus didn’t think his Daddy was mean. He thought his Daddy was full of love and loved him very much. His Daddy didn’t make him die. Jesus chose to die because he and his Daddy …show more content…

Jesus and the holy spirit are just different forms of God. It is up to us how we see them. Our churches may have a certain image of them, but reading this book made me think it is up to ourselves how we see God, Jesus, and the holy spirit. It is easy for us to see Jesus as a handsome, tall, strong man, but he was not. He was just like us, his people. I believe God is walking among us people, working wonders every day. People might ask how is he walking among us? I will tell you how. He is inside of all of us, working within

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