Forgiveness.  Perhaps no other word in the English language expresses an action more important or less understood.  Chapters 15-16 of The Shack offer some vital insights on forgiveness.
Forgiveness is sometimes a hug with no words.  Most of the time, an embrace either presupposes or symbolizes a relationship.  Mack meets his own dad in chapter 15, [...]

I think it might be my favorite paragraph in The Shack.
This quote comes from chapter 13, when the main character, Mack, is talking to Papa (God the Father).  Mack admits to Papa, “I’ve tried pretty hard to lock you out of my life.”
Papa answers, “People are tenacious when it comes to the treasure of their [...]

Mack has lived for four years with “the great sadness” – a personal tragedy of unimaginable consequence.  Now he has his weekend with God, allowing him to surface his buried thoughts and feelings – not just about “the great sadness,” but about a life of pain that distanced him from a personal relationship with the [...]

You are a living fractal.
I didn’t know what that was either until a few minutes ago.  So I looked it up in Webster’s, and then online.  Click here for Wikipedia’s explanation and illustrations of fractals if you want to know more.
Actually, the explanation is rather complex and I’m a simple guy.  So here’s my non-technical [...]

He was born into a missionary family, a home where one would think he might learn the love of God.  Instead, his strict and demanding father taught him that faith is about performance.
He would hear the cannibalistic tribesmen discuss whether they would kill his parents.  His understandable youthful response was to create emotional distance from [...]