Shackin’ up with God

I started reading The Shack by William P. Young about two days ago. I’ve first heard about it a few months ago from my aunt, who got it through one of the girls that’s renting an apartment from her. She ranted and raved a lot about it and I thought of getting it, but forgot. A while ago I saw the book in a local Christian book store and after Cobus said something about the book, I decided to buy it.
It’s good. I’m almost halfway now and I am astonished by the way the author depicts God – as a big black woman using slang (something between Bubba Blue’s mom from Forrest Gump, The Oracle from The Matrix and Whoopi Goldberg); Jesus as a Hebrew guy with whom you can lie and watch stars out on a dock; and The Holy Spirit as an Asian lady working in a garden (haven’t read much about “her” yet).
I have great expectations from the rest of the book. There’s something about it that just gets me…
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Reality…the future…cruise ship…Fritz Deelman…movies…Gospel…family

My mind has been all over the place lately, mainly about the future and stuff, what to do with my life, and so on and so on. You’d think that after almost six years of theology I would just like to jump in and finally get to work, but no, that is not the case.

Let me tell you how things are going to turn out:
I’m going to work on a cruise ship, after I completed my studies, for a year, year and a half. With the money I make there I will pay off all my study debt. Then I’m going to the States to obtain the necessary skills in drama and directing/producing films.

Eventually, I will have starred in the Fritz Deelman-movie series, based on the books by Leon Rousseau. I will have won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. I will be the head of the company Movies That Matter, producing films which spread the Gospel in a striking, non-preachy yet approachable and meaningful, life-changing way. I will be married to a lovely wife and have 4 kids, two sons and two daughters. I will have a house in California and one in South Africa.

I love my family and they love me. We will have fun together and enjoy life, the life that God gave us to enjoy to the full.

This is not dreaming. This is reality.