The Shack: HS conondrum

The book, The Shack, is a theologically life changing book.  It shapes how we view certain theological concepts of God.  This book gives us a greater concept of the Holy Spirit's workings in the Trinity.
This book explains how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all work together in unity.  It describes how one aspect of the Trinity is not greater than the other.  All three work together to produce one God that has three natures but is still God. This relationship is described as simple and easy throughout the book.  The author discusses all three parts of God coming together.
The author helps us grasp this nature of three persons in one in the main character's encounter with God.  Papa, personified as God, says, "When we spoke of ourselves into human existence we chose to be the Son of God, we became fully human.  We also chose the embrace the limitations this entailed" (101).  Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood."  On 103, Papa or God says "I am God and I am three persons, and each of the three is fully and entirely one." I feel as if the author uses this quote to show how this relationship of the Father, Son, and HS works as a whole.
The main part of this section of the book that is a problem is authority.  There is no authority of God over Jesus.  The Trinity is depicted in a way that is construed and turned to fit the author's perspective.
The nature of Jesus described by Papa or God also shows how God's three nature into one work together.  Papa says although "by nature he is fully God, he is fully human and lives as such."  The author depicts Jesus as totally reliant on everything.  Jesus cannot do anything with the Father's leading.
The author wants us to see that without the Trinity that God wouldn't not be able to love the way he can.  He would be limited to the amount of love he can give us.  The Trinity opens up the depth of The Father's love for us through God, talking to Jesus personally, and the Holy Spirit guiding us along the way.
Young's term for Holy Spirit chimes into the conversation in this book describing this unity of God's love.  "It's a circle of relationship, not a chain of command, or a 'great chain of being' as your ancestors put it." This relationship is described as one working with the other to produce something great and awesome.  The relationship is a simple, easy unity between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Jesus is God in flesh and the Holy Spirit gives us things to pray for and guides us daily in our walk with God.
At times, we break this unity when we sin... As Christians, we first broke in in the Fall, when Adam ate of the Tree of Good and Evil.
Today, I hope you realize this wonderful relationship with God in this thing we call the Trinity.  This book challenged me in my theology and thinking.