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What are the three persons of God called?
What is Jesus, the Holy Spirit (Sarayu) and God (Papa)?
What setting triggers Macks "SADNESS" the most?
What is the Shack?
What brought back more of the pain that was pent up from "the Great Sadness"?
What is the letter in the mailbox?
Who says, “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 love you and me and everyone in the world. He saved us from our sickness, like the princess.”?
Who is Mack?
What major event-triggered "The Great Sadness"?
What is Missy's death?
How many children were with Mack on the trip? Which one went missing?
What is 3, little Missy?
What changed in the Shack throughout the story?
What are the Shack and surrounding lands' appearance?
In what way did the Great Sadness affect Mack and his family?
What is, separating them through heartache which limits them as a whole?
Who says, “When we’re around family she seems to come out of her shell some, but then she disappears again. I just don’t know what to do. I’ve been praying and praying that Papa would help us find a way to reach her but”—she paused again—“it feels like he isn’t listening.”?
Who is Nan Phillips?
When Mack walked with Jesus what did he do?
What is take a walk on water?
Which of the three (God) was most relatable (according to Mack)??
What is Jesus?
How did the setting affect Mack's discovery of the letter in the beginning?
What Ice made him fall in the driveway?
What does the dots on the ladybug pin represent?
What is the amount of little girls taken/kidnapped by "The Ladybug Killer?
Who says, "I am neither male nor female, even though both genders are derived from my nature. If I choose to appear to you as a man or a woman, it's because I love you. For me to appear to you as a woman and suggest that you call me 'Papa' is simply to mix metaphors, to help you keep from falling so easily back into your religious conditioning."
Who is Papa- God?
What did the police do when they heard the description of the car Missy was suspected to be trapped in?
What is set a blockade to try and cut him off?
Who gets stuck underwater when the canoe flips and almost completely drowns?
Who is Jon?
How does the setting at the falls foreshadow the tragedy to come?
What is representing death of a loved daughter(child) and sacrifice?
What is the main reason Papa appears as a woman?
Why did Mack have a bad fatherly example and God wanted him to be able to trust and let his guard down?
Who says, "You become the judge. And to make things more confusing, that which you determine to be good will change over time and circumstance. And then, beyond that and even worse, there are billions of you, each determining what is good and what is evil. So when your good and evil clash with your neighbor's, fights and arguments ensue and even wars break out...if there is no reality of good that is absolute, then you have lost any basis for judging. It is just language, and one might as well exchange the word good for the word evil."?
Who is Sarayu - Holy Spirit?
What caused Mack's mind to wander?
What is the chaos of the police work and the scenarios he's been listening to?
Who was Missy's stalker/abducter?
Who is The Ladybug Killer?
Where did Missy first ask Mack about the sacrifice of the daughter?
What is- the falls?
How did the stress build as the amount of time Missy was gone grew?
What is the time it took and the lack of clues?
Who says, "Honey, you're a survivor. No shame in that. Your daddy hurt you something fierce. Life hurt you. Lies are one of the easiest places for survivors to run. They give you a sense of safety, a place where you have to depend only on yourself. But it's a dark place, isn't it?"
Who is Papa?
What is making him see he needed more Jesus in his life?