The Wonderful Journey
Originally published March 2016. Movie seen at Oswego 7 Cinemas in Oswego, NY. A REFLECTION AFTER WATCHING THE MOVIE MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN Michael DeNobile reviews the 2016 drama Miracles From Heaven, and its themes of religion, illness, and family. Why would a benevolent God allow His people, especially innocent children, suffer? Michael DeNobile admits that he has struggled with this very question since elementary school. When you're nine years old and faced with death, a parent, grandparent, or in Michael DeNobile’s case, a great-grandmother, the first cut is the deepest. As life goes on the wounds pile up: you discover your parents are not infallible superheroes, you are bullied, you heart is broken the first, second and third time, good friends from college die young, your dreams are deferred, your cousins who are not that much older than you are diagnosed with cancer and one dies while one struggles to survive, your 15yo student is struck and killed by an SUV, you watch ...