Judith R.

Dela Cruz
BSN 2
Miracle from Heaven

Set in Burleson, Texas, in 2011, the film centers on 10 years old girl named Anna Beam,
daughter of Christy Beam. Upon checking at the local hospital, they find no signs of illness but
say its “acid reflux” or lactose intolerance but Christy is not convinced by this. She finally finds
paediatrician in a local Texas hospital that is able to diagnose Anna with abdominal obstruction,
and he tells them he must operate immediately or she will die. Though they had hoped this
would repair the problem, the doctor explains that Anna has been left with pseudo obstruction
motility disorder and she is unable to eat, so feeding tubes are needed for her nutrition. The
doctor then tells the Beams about America’s foremost pediatric gastroenterologist, Dr. Nurko,
who practices in Boston, but explains it could take months for them to be seen. Christy and
Anna travel to Boston despite not having an appointment with the doctor.

The Doctor has a last minute opening, and when Anna is subsequently examined at
Boston Children’s Hospital, the extent of her chronic illness is found. She then goes through
extensive treatment. During this ordeal, Anna and her mother befriend a local Massachusetts
resident named Angela, as well as Ben and his sick daughter, Haley.

One day, Anna along with one of her sisters climbs up to a very high branch of a old
tree. When they are on that branch, it starts breaking so that Anna goes to the trunk for safety
where upon stepping onto it, she falls in a hole to the base of the tree. Upon being told, her
mom desperately calls her husband as well as the firefighters, who warn her mom to expect the
worst by saying that nobody could fall 30 feet without sustaining serious injury; broken bones or
paralysis. Once out Anna is airlifted to a hospital where a battery of tests is run on her and after
the other come back negative. Other that a minor concussion Anna is unhurt.

Some time after the fall, Anna seems a new girl playing around without any pain due to
her illness. When Christy and Anna go to an appointment with Dr. Nurko, he tells Christy that
Anna is miraculously cured. Anna then recounts her parents about her experience while
unconscious after the fall, during which her soul get out of her body and she goes up top
heaven where she feels like she talks to God, Who promises her He will heal her when she
goes back to earth. At church Christy shares the story of how God miraculously heal her true
love. As Christy finishes her speech, one of the congregation protests, stating that she does not
believe Christy. Ben, who travelled from Boston upon hearing the story about Anna, believes
her and tells her that his daughter Haley died peacefully because Anna gave her faith earlier
when in the hospital.
 CHARACTERS

Jennifer Garner as Christy Beam, Anna’s mother

Kylie Rogers as Anna Beam

Martin Henderson as Dr. Kevin, Christy’s husband and Anna’s father

Eugenio Derbez as Dr. Nurko, a pediatric gastroenterologist who is Anna’s doctor at the Boston
Children’s Hospital.

Queen Latifah as Angela, a waitress who befriends Anna and her family at the hospital

Briton Sharbino as Abbie Beam, the oldest Beam daughter

Courtney Fansler as Adelynn Beam, the youngest Beam daughter

Zach Sale as Dr. Blyth, the first doctor to listen to Christy about her sick daughter

Kellyn Collins Lintz as Emmy, a family friend of the Beams

John Carroll Lynch as reverend Scott, the Senior Pastor of the Beam family’s church

Brandon Spink as Billy Synder, a friend of Anna

Hanna Alligood as Haley, A sick cancer patient who becomes friends with Anna

Watyne Pere as Ben, Haley’s father

Bruce Altman as Dr. Burgi, Anna’s doctor who is the head of the pediatric division at the
hospital in Texas

Suehyla El-Attar as receptionist at the Boston Children’s hospital

 Best Lines

“There are so many things that I don’t know but I know God Loves you.”

-Christy Beam

“Miracles are everywhere. Miracles are goodness. Miracles are love. Miracles are God,
and God is forgiveness”

-Christy Beam

Many of us struggle with conceptualizing the enduring, sacrificial, infinite, and

unconditional love our Heavenly Father. I think because we always try to put God’s love
into our own human terms—and our terms always fall far short.

Our human relationship have conditioned us to measure love by “if’s, maybes,

and becauses”. “I’ll love you if you do this” or “I love you because you did that.”

Most of us struggle with even imagining that a love without some sort of condition
even exists. Yet, God wants us not only to know that such a love exists, but also really
believe it and receive it. God’s thoughts, intentions, desires and plans are always for our
good and never for our harm. Sometimes we fail to find someone to love us broken
relationship comes along but it is God’s way of saying I have better plan and better
person that destined for you., God is kind, open, approachable frank, and eager to be our
friend.

In my own life, I’ve really struggled to believe and receive this truth. I’ve been in
times where weight of the world was weighing me down so much that I started to
questions God if he really loves me. I experience that when I got pregnant in my first
baby. I was only 18 years old and my pregnancy is not planned. So I was hiding my
pregnancy to my family for 6 months and you know that feeling like you are all alone in
your entire pregnancy because my boyfriend is working abroad. I cried day and night
because I don’t know what to do, I am always praying God please help me, what I will do,
to whom I will run, do you love me but now in the present time I realize that maybe it is
Gods way to make me to realize my mistakes and those problems that I overcome is His
way to make me more stronger person because being a mother is a lifetime
responsibility. Now, I am very thankful to God for giving a healthy son and a loving and
responsible husband.

No matter where we’re at or how bad we may have blown it, the truth of God’s love
is that the Creator of Creation is with us. As a believer in Jesus Christ, His spirit dwells
inside of us and He wants to deliver us and quiet the stress of our heart with a love that’s
not contingent on our performance. In spite of our sinfulness, God demonstrated His
love by sending Christ to die for us. God’s love is unconditional, it’s free’ and all we have
to do to experience it, and rejoice in it.