Miracles from Heaven movie

I don't know if I am in the frame of mind to write on this right now, but I just wanted to remind myself to do this. I will give it a try.

This was a really good movie. The parts that I remember crying at where when they played the song Collide when they were on the plane to Boston. This song comes on a lot on Pandora, and it reminds me of the last day of school when you were in 4th grade when I was dropping you off at school (we were living in the new house at the time). This song also makes me think of Mrs. Luke when she was leaving the preschool class (you never had her but Hope and Carter did).
  Anyway, of course because of the title of the song, it makes me think of your accident. It's a pretty old song, so I was surprised it was in the movie. It made me think of you, of course.

Another part of the movie I remember crying at is when all of the ambulances and life flight helicopter were gathered at the family's house when they were trying to get the girl out of the tree. It made me think of how it must have been when they were trying to get you of the car and get you to the hospital.

When the girl went to heaven, I cried at how beautiful it was and imagining you there. (The song Collide just came on Pandora-I'm trying not to cry right now. Thank you!)


In the movie, the girl described how she was out of her body and could see her body (this is consistent with many other accounts of people who have died and come back). She went to heaven and it was so beautiful. I cried imagining you there. She wanted to stay in heaven but God told her she had to go back. (In the meantime, there were many people praying for her outside the tree). She told God that she didn't want to go back to all the pain she was in from her intestinal condition and the only way she would go back is if she was healed. She went back and her intestinal condition, which was incurable medically, was healed.

I always have mixed feelings about these stories when people are allowed to come back to earth/are healed because that's not what happened with you. On the way home though, both Hope and Carter said that they imagined that God presented you with the option to come back to us but that your healing wasn't an option. At that point, they thought that God let you stay there. I thought it was very special that they both came up with that opinion. I think you told them that through the movie.

I would like to think that you are working on these. (The song With Arms Wide Open is on right now, reminding me that this song, not Collide, was what was playing the day I dropped you off for the last day of 4th grade. You are amazing! I think that Collide was the song with Mrs. Luke though. I'm sure you will let me know if I'm wrong!) What I was saying is that I would like to think that God is allowing you to help on these films, since you are so talented in that field. I know that they are films made on earth and for earth, but the thoughts and ideas have to come from somewhere.

I know I cried at a lot of other parts, but those are the ones that stand out. Oh yeah, I cried when her hospital roommate's father came to the church where the mom was speaking and thanked Anna for telling his daughter about God, because even though she ended up dying, she wasn't afraid or alone anymore. That was special. Especially because at the time he was upset at them for giving his daughter "false hope."

I think that's it for the movie. Thanks for reaching out to me today! Love you boy!