Letters To God

You are a letter ... written not with pen and ink but with the Spirit of the living God.
2 Corinthians 3:3 NIV

Letters to God is a 2010 Christian drama film directed by David Nixon. The story was written by Patrick Doughtie about his son.

Tyler Doughtie was born on September 23, 1995. At age 3, he began playing soccer, which soon became the love of his life. He was also involved in cub scouts and later, AWANA. In 2003, Tyler was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain tumor called Medulloblastoma. He underwent surgery for thirty radiation treatments and four months of high dose chemotherapy. Nine months later, in June of 2004, Tyler was re-diagnosed with Leptomeningeal disease, basically a side effect of the treatments. On March 7, 2005, Tyler passed away at the age of nine.

Inspired by the true story, the film tells about an eight years old little boy, Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire) stricken with brain cancer, who prays in the form of letters to God on a daily basis and the letters find their way into the hands of Brady McDaniels (Jeffrey Johnson), a beleaguered postman standing at a crossroads in his life. At first, Brady is confused and conflicted over what to do with the letters, he tries to hand them off to a local pastor but the pastor tells him to deal with it himself and he gets the same message from his boss, co-workers and friends. Eventually, they inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son that he's lost through his alcohol addiction.

TYLER AND PATRICK DOUGHTIE

An uplifting and inspirational film of hope, redemption and courage about the galvanizing effect of one young boy's shining spirit and unshakable faith can have on his family and friends. After Tyler passed away, Patrick was diagnosed with CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) and witnessing Tyler's brave bout with cancer, though he dealt with anger and depression off and on, it was finding Tyler’s and ultimately his purpose, to continue on and to be the messenger to share Tyler’s story with the world. By the way, Patrick's son, Brendan has an cameo role in the film as Brady's son.

Before the credit rolls, the film shows some real-life stories of people beating cancer and thriving in their faith. I hope this film will encourage those who are fighting battles against the cancers and to the families to remember to love and laugh and live with the ones who are still living.  

Hope is living with courage and confident not fear.
Life is not waiting for the storm to pass 
but go out and play in the rain! 
Thank God for everything 
and never, never, never forget you are loved.

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