Mike Mason Books

[Note: Thanks for this story to Dr. Jim Foulkes, who served as a missionary doctor in Africa for four decades. This is my version of a story he told me, but you can read Dr. Jim’s own account in his wonderful book To Africa With Love: A Bush Doc’s Story. Furthermore, Dr. Jim is presently [...]

A Mysterious Disappearance (Spoiler Alert! for those who have not read The Blue Umbrella) Chesterton Cholmondeley poked the bridge of his tortoiseshell glasses with one finger, a gesture he performed a few hundred times a day. Having recovered the years that the evil Dada had stolen from him, Ches was now a lithe, darkly handsome [...]

Chapter One Not many people are killed by lightning. Zac’s mother was. Zachary Sparks, though small for ten years old, had a look of perpetual astonishment that made him seem larger than life. His eyes were nearly the biggest part of him, round and wide, and his eyebrows had a natural arch as if held [...]

A marriage, or a marriage partner, may be compared to a great tree growing right up through the center of one’s living room. It is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going––to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door––the tree has to be taken into account.

Listen to this Interview with Mike Mason about his book Practicing the Presence of People. Click to hear interview

Interview with Mike about Champagne for the Soul (The interviewer is Rosanne Farnden Lyster of InCourage magazine.) “Happiness has not been my strong suit, which is why I needed to experiment with joy.” So writes Mike Mason in the introduction to his book Champagne for the Soul. In October of 1999 Mason began an unusual [...]

Mike Mason thinks different. Different than me, anyhow.  To clarify the degree of difference, I once asked him what would be his favourite way to spend an hour.  “To sit and contemplate a tree.”  I don’t remember what my response would have been to that question at that time, but if it involved trees, it [...]

Excerpt from Adventures in Heaven Once I’d met my Heavenly Father on His throne and fulfilled some assignments, He asked if I’d like to come back and spend an entire day in the throne room.  At the time I happened to be swamped in guilt and self-pity, and it astounded me that God would issue [...]

Excerpt from Champagne for the Soul A few years ago I began a ninety-day experiment in joy. I made up my mind that for the next ninety days I would be joyful in the Lord. Because this was an experiment, it allowed room for failure. If at times I wasn’t joyful, I wouldn’t despair or [...]

Excerpt from The Gospel According to Job Once I met a man who, like Abraham, had moved his entire household halfway around the world on the strength of a vision from God.  When I asked him to tell me the story, he answered that there were three versions of that story, and which one did [...]

Excerpt from Practicing the Presence of People Why does it seem so hard to love?  Why does the real thing so often elude us?  Why don’t we just claim this treasure and enjoy it? One reason is that we do not really believe love is permitted.  A little taste of love here and there––yes, that’s [...]

Excerpt from The Mystery of Children One day in our church all the parents were encouraged to stand before their children and take their hands.  As we looked into our children’s eyes, the pastor read Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:3: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will [...]

Excerpt from The Furniture of Heaven With Christopher Rainbow and me, right from the start it was one of those stormy romances: on again, off again, on again, off again. So when the news first came out about this new technique for merging two people into one, we simply made up our minds one night, [...]

Excerpt of a story from The Mystery of the Word (no longer in print, but still available from online bookstores) It was a sunny day with a light breeze and the world could not have been more beautiful. I was picking wild flowers in the woods beside the airstrip in Chizela, a mission station in [...]