I recently finished the book "The Shack" by William P. Young.
Also, warning, this one will be religious ish.
I couldn't put it down. Like, literally, I spent the entire afternoon today reading it (while I had down time at work of course). The story is about a man who loses his very young daughter, and I will try not to give away too much more, but eventually the man finds God.
God is a sticky subject for me to talk about. I know he's there, and I know he created this beautiful thing we call life, and I understand that it's not his fault everyone sucks, but I still wish he would call down to us and answer our questions sometimes. I've been talking to him a lot lately. I don't talk to him about me anymore though. I talk to him about you, reader. Whether you be my family, friend or neither, I pray for you. I ask him to watch over you and ensure your happiness. I don't pray for me because I don't think I am worthy to be selfish to Him. He knows my wants, he knows my desires and he knows my pains, but they are all here or not here for a reason. I'm going through what I'm going through right now, because He says I should be.
There are some things in life people will never understand. Some call them miracles, some call them epiphanies, and others call them how the Lions lose, but no matter what you call them, I personally think that God did it just to remind you, "Hey, I'm still here. I created this all for you, so even though you don't believe it, I'm here." At the same time, people often curse God because things are going wrong in their life. We are all guilty of this for various reasons. Sometimes, what's going wrong though isn't His fault. I would like to introduce you to something I can't quite explain. I don't know how this woman is related to God or what she is called in the Bible, but her name is Karma. You do something good, assume something bad will come your way. Vise versa. I have bad news for you though, the punishment or the reward are often very far from whatever it is you do. If you rob a bank or kill a man, maybe the Karma that comes your way will be you spill your coffee in your lap the next day. If the good thing you do is hold the door open for a man who doesn't have enough hands to do so, maybe the Karma that comes your way is you get the girl of your dreams. I don't know.
Karma is a tricky thing though. It can often take years to come back at you, and sneak up on you from hidden angles. For instance, say you make mistakes when you are in high school. These mistakes may not get "repaid" until you are thirty, and yeah, these mistakes may cost you something you truly care for. I truly, with all my heart, hope Karma doesn't cost us what is in God's plan for us, but how do we really know what God's plan is? Maybe what we feel today, what we want our future to be, God looks down at us and says.. "Man, you are waaaaaay wrong."
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I started reading this book Sunday, and every time I went to put it down I felt like I was neglecting God. I would say to myself, "Well shit, God is a character in this book, and I'm not reading through it. What kind of son am I to Him?". If any of you read this book, don't feel that way. God has a bazillion other things that are more important than our fears to be worrying about, so I'm going to go ahead and assume if we put a book down that he is in to go about our daily lives, he won't be bothered too much. Now, I did say though that I was unable to put it down as I got about halfway through the book. So be forewarned.
While your reading the book, I want you to think of what you ask of Him. When I read it, all I could think about was how selfish I was being to Him in my every day life. I've gotten better, much better since I lost my godfather last August, but I still feel like I am wasting God's ear sometimes. That Karma girl I mentioned earlier, she's the one I should be more upset with. But guess what? Karma is everything that YOU'VE done. So now whose to blame?
I hope you all enjoy the book. I was kind of hoping it would like, "bring me into the hands of the lord" or something, but what it did for me was good. It opened my eyes just a little bit more to the notion that we still control our lives. God, Jesus, Karma, the Holy Spirit.. It's all there, but we are still in control.
My advice to you, and I encourage you strongly to take it, is to remove things from your life that make YOU unhappy, regardless of what the cost might be. This is YOUR life, reader, and God will be there with you every step of the way. If you are wrong, trust in him that it will be corrected. If you are not FULLY happy, find a way to be.
Take care of yourself, and eachother; Cheers.
-Dub
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