I happened upon this title while trying to stave off the cynicism our social media, and more to the point our legacy, hopefully soon to be off air, tries to relay.
Having said this, and Being a United States Marine, and a Christian in faith, this movie is more than its wonderful performance from all parties involved.
The true spirit, the essence, is the true understanding and sight of our God. You choose what words you can to describe Him... yet, you can not deny His existence.
We, as humans, think that nothing is truely a miracle anymore... but, I have a question, is everything everyday, and every person you have met at the exact time and place, for the good or bad, not a miracle? Or, you'd rather it just be happenstance?
Then, answer this, if you talk to someone today, even just in passing, and say "hello", not something we often do anymore, but all should... do you not see how many things had to align just right for that brief moment to occur.
First, your parents had to meet, fall in love, have you ( which, with our increased population we fail to see this as a miracle itself. How? Everything must be on the right time, temperature, the female body must produce so much for 9 months, and I am not even scratching the surface of the process of conception to birth, for a single human to be born... yet, we dont even look at these things as miracles anymore... how have we lost that sight?). Then, the passer by, his or her parents had to meet at the exact time and place, fall in love, have a child at just a specific moment in time... and although it is a brief encounter, we have lost the amazing view that the occurance is so astronomical, the math is unknowable... because, you go further back, and your grandparents, both sets had to do the same... 1 comes from 2, 2 comes from 4, 4 from 8, 8 from sixteen, 16 from 32, 32 from 64, 64 from 128, 128 from 256, 256 from 512.... now, calculate the other persons lineage... and everything all in perfect time and sync just for you to pass by, and be kind and say "hello".
It's not hard to understand everything is a miracle if we honestly open our eyes.
Count the stars in our own galaxy, not planets, stars alone. Some theorize 100 billion... funny, God knows the number and is pretty sure science is a bit off... now walk outside out galaxy, take a look around, multiply the stars in our galaxy by 100 trillion to the trillionth power, and we are not even close to a fraction of a percent of universe. This is not a miracle?
The human body breathes 20 percent Oxegyn, which is a highly poisonous gas, but without it, our brain dies, body and soul too... but, in those same breathes we take, each one corrodes our DNA, and time, as it does, moves us all towoards our fate.
Does God not have a beautiful design, a plan in that. Maybe a check and balance situation.
Same with every galaxy, even the universe itself.
How do we not see beauty and majesty in everything. I hope everyone will see the same wonders I have seen some day.
It isn't always easy, as we toil along, and we grasp for possesions or material wealth, which, in the end of your days, will it gain you anything?
Yes, we need food, shelter and clothing... but to what end? It's all nothing more than matter, when within each and every one of us is such a priceless divine spark put there by God.
Talk to Him, listen.
I have heard His voice since I could understand language, and possibly before that. I knew Him before I was told of Him, and He has known me. He has loved me even when I stopped listening for 7 years... I said to man I wish I could recall, "God stopped talking to me 7 years ago", he then asked, "Did God stop talking, or did you stop listening?".
I pondered this for 3 days, and then, as if it were a bolt of lightning through me, I could hear Him, I apologized, and I asked Him to forgive me for my ignorance... what God showed me was He was always there, in my homeless nights, bivowhacking on the road side in the tree lines... He had never abandoned my side.
He was there when I thought I was successful, I was humble, running 8 miles 3 days a week, lifting 3 days a week, and my business, was taking in 200k a year, by myself.
Sometimes, we have to fall, and lose everything, even when we came from nothing to truely know what is of real value in this life.
I am a human man, and fallible. But, I am up again, and I am trying. God is the only reason I am alive today... and if you knew my whole story, you may well agree. I can't explain how many times I have, should have died... I've begged for it. But it is a gift I did not give myself, and even if it is not something I wanted, I was given it all the same.
Truth is, we all, inately know right, wrong. We know the charector of good mankind, we know the charector of the evil of mankind... God gave each of us the path to choose, yet, He has always seen Grace, and in such, He knows our roads.
So, I apologize for the length, not trying to preach... but this movie was brilliant and had a beautiful and simple way of trying to make us see what the right kind of human being we all should be.
Thank you to the actors, director, and all others for this movie.
And may God bless you all.
