The Shack

So, I'm reading this book The Shack and I just can't wrap my head around it! The gals I work with and I all read a LOT and a couple said I just MUST read this book. Started off good enough, daughter goes missing... Terrible and sad and you really want to know what happened. Well, then the dad goes and meets God. From the moment he meets God, the whole thing just glosses my eyes over. I find that I have read and reread the same paragraph so that I really get what's being said. I usually love learning someone else's point of view and investigating it, but this is just too much for me. I think I am understanding what the book is getting at and I realize it is fiction, but what I really want to find out is how God justifies taking the life of this little girl. And, I guess I just want to hear the reason, not all the babble about who God is and why God does what God does. Just give me the reasoning! I already have my ideas on God and this book won't change those, but it's interesting to hear another opinion. Oddly, a couple of times, I was about to give up reading and hand my book over to my friend who wants to read it but I just KEEP READING! Every time I start to get frustrated, I get to an interesting, easy-to-read section. I'm almost done with it and I really can't wait to get on to a new book.