The Best Book I Have Ever Read!!!

YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! I have bought 7 copies of this book, so far and I am going to give it to everyone I know! This book will change your relationship with God and your life. It took me six hours to read this book, the first time. I cried from chapter 5, all the way to the end. The second time, I took a week and really digested it. I cried from chapter 5, all the way to the end. This is the "Papa" I want to know and now I feel I am on my way to REALLY knowing Him!

This is what it says on the back of the book:

"Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever."

Here are four short excerpts that had me rethinking what I want my relationship with God to be like:

Papa says, "The person who lives by their fears will not find freedom in my love. To the degree that those fears have a place in your life, you neither believe I am good nor know deep in your heart that I love you. You sing about it; you talk about it, but you don't know it."

Sophia (Papa's wisdom), "He doesn't stop a lot of things that cause Him pain. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the one who loved you enough to give it to you. Nothing is as it should be, as Papa desires it to be, and as it will be one day. Right now your world is lost in darkness and chaos, and horrible things happen to those that He is especially fond of."

Papa says, "All evil flows from independence, and independence is your choice. If I were to simply revoke all the choices of independence, the world as you know it would cease to exist and love would have no meaning. This world is not a playground where I keep all my children free from evil. Evil is the chaos of this age that you brought to me. but it will not have the final say. Now it touches everyone that I love, those who follow me and those who don't If I take away the consequences of people's choices, I destroy the possibility of love. Love that is forced is no love at all."

Sarayu (Holy Spirit) says, "Religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right. But I am about the process that takes you to the living answer and once you get to Him, He will change you from the inside. There are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all. So really, how can their answers be right even if they are right, if you understand my drift?"

Be prepared to hear God in every word!