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Spirituality In Letters To God

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1. Do you see spirituality in the movie Letters to God? What kind of Spirituality do you see in movie: especially in Tyler?
Yes, I do. From the movie, I could see the holistic Spirituality especially in the life’s of Tyler. It is the way that everything is connected. It can understand a whole only by looking at its parts and it can understand a part only by looking at its whole. Celebrate diversity and connection. The one who seems to be dealing with the situation the best is Tyler, the boy with cancer. He displays the kind of faith Jesus Himself describes in Matthew 21; the faith that can move mountains. Here is the premise – a little boy with brain cancer shares his thoughts, dreams, and concerns in letters that he writes to God. Subsequently, the troubled mailman who is tasked with ‘delivering’ these letters eventually turns his life around due to the unflinching Christian witness of the boy. Tyler displays his child-like faith by writing letters to God and placing them in the mail box. The letters end up in the hands of the mailman. …show more content…

I could see the way of connection in the various situations through Tyler’s life, for example; in the beginning, a new mailman comes into the scene. He is a lost, drunken, hopeless man who has lost his wife and son, as a result of his addiction to alcohol. God has said the wages of sin is death but sin, also, has earthly wages, which is realistically portrayed though the life of this mailman. Through Tyler’s letters to God, he begins to be inspired and is touched by Tyler’s strong faith in the Mighty One. “How can a dying boy have so much hope and a perfect healthy man is slowly killing himself?” And it causes me to examine myself, to say the

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