{"id":157,"date":"2010-05-06T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2010\/05\/06\/letters-to-god\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T21:34:38","slug":"letters-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/2010\/letters-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/blogs\/mailbox.jpg\" \/>As eight-year-old Tyler fights an aggressive form of cancer, he writes letters God that touch those around him. The letters even reach out to their postman, a recovering alcoholic whose life is in shambles. Filled with inspiration and hope, this faith-based film is a must-see for Christians and non-Christians alike.<\/p>\n<p>The God message is strong, but so is the boy&#8217;s sense of general good-will to those around him. Co-directed by David Nixon (<em>Fireproof<\/em> and <em>Facing the Giants<\/em>), <em>Letters to God<\/em> is based on a true story written by Patrick Doughtie. Doughtie is the father of the real Tyler, who died from Medulloblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer when he was nine-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you aren&#8217;t so fond of tear-jerkers, don&#8217;t worry. The film does have sad moments, but it&#8217;s mostly about the hope and joy you can find in God and that you can bring to the lives of others through simple things like sharing a meal or listening when someone needs to talk. Instead of a preachy &#8220;Everything is good because God is love&#8221; message, this film addresses real human reactions to a tough situation &#8211; anger, questioning, fear, love and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>This film is currently showing in selected theaters. To locate a theater near you, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefone.com\/movie\/letters-to-god\/50451\/main?locationQuery=Enter+Zip%2FPostal+Code&#038;submit\">Moviefone<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fandango.com\/letterstogod_130228\/movietimes\">Fandango<\/a>.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefone.com\/movie\/letters-to-god\/50451\/main?locationQuery=Enter+Zip%2FPostal+Code&#038;submit\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/--%20NYC%20Movie%20Guru%20%20Check%20out%20the%20trailer%20here:%20%20www.letterstogodthemovie.com%20%3Chttp:\/\/www.letterstogodthemovie.com%3E%3C\/a%3E\">trailer here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As eight-year-old Tyler fights an aggressive form of cancer, he writes letters God that touch those around him. The letters even reach out to their postman, a recovering alcoholic whose life is in shambles. Filled with inspiration and hope, this faith-based film is a must-see for Christians and non-Christians alike. The God message is strong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paS5I2-2x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}