Miracles from Heaven

I don’t want to call this a review. I just learnt a lot from this movie and it really made me think about a few things differently.

Miracles from Heaven, for those of you who haven’t seen it, is a great family movie about a little girl, Anna Beam, who was diagnosed with two rare incurable diseases called pseudo-obstruction motility disorder and antral hypomotility disorder  – life – threatening digestive disorders. It shows how her and her family coped with the illness and how (SPOILER ALERT) she somehow survives a fatal fall that cures her from both of her illnesses completely.

The movie’s main message was to show everyone that we should see every day as a miracle. That every kind person you come across is a blessing. And the more I thought about it, the more I realised how true that was. We have to be so grateful for everything and everyone we have in our life. We are affected by the way people treat us and by the way we treat them. So it’s really important to be a good person and to surround yourself with good people, because everything comes full circle in the end and having people’s trust and love is something so powerful and meaningful.

I also noticed how the director put a lot of emphasis on the love and compassion the characters had for one another, especially between the three sisters, they all looked after each other so well and got along like sisters should and it just melted my heart, they were so sweet! There was one scene in particular where they all decide to stop eating pizza simply because Anna couldn’t have it any more, which I found so thoughtful. Being close to your family like that means everything. Because at the end of the day, only your family will really be there for you when you need it most. Unconditional family love is priceless.

The illness Anna had meant that she had to be fed through a tube for some time, which honestly gave me the shivers. And to watch the amount of pain she had to go through every day was unbearable. It reminded me of how I always need to be grateful to Allah for saving me from illnesses like this. And how I need to do my best to always help those around me as much as I can. Christy Beam, the mother, didn’t seem to understand why a loving God would make such an innocent little girl suffer so much. And even though she was a strong Christian, it was hard for her to feel God’s presence when all of this was happening. But then, towards the end, after the miracle had happened, Christy regained her faith and realised that God was with them all along, and although it didn’t seem like it at the time – He was listening. I guess you’ll have to watch the movie for that last part to make sense but what I’m trying to say is, whatever you’re dealing with right now may be hard. But you have a choice; use this hardship to bring you closer to God, or further away from Him. I guarantee that one feels a lot better than the other.

And can I just say how beautiful the cinematography was in this movie?! Anyways, that’s all I wanted to share. I hope you can take something away from this. That’s all from me for now 🙂