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“The Story of God” concludes 5/8 with “The Power of Miracles”

The Story of God concludes this Sunday with "The Power of Miracles"

The Story of God concludes this Sunday with “The Power of Miracles.”

This Sunday, May 8, 2016, the NatGeo Channel will conclude it’s beautiful inspiring and informative series on “The Story of God.” The final episode is “The Power of Miracles.”

The series host, Morgan Freeman, begins this “journey to discover the power of miracles” by interviewing Alcides Moreno, a window washer in Manhattan who plunged 47 stories to the ground in 2007 and survived. Alcido’s younger brother, Edgar, perished. Freeman and Moreno speak about the miracle that saved him, as well as “the entity” that decided that his brother would die. Divine Will is not easy to understand.

Next Freeman visits Jerusalem for Passover and celebrates the Seder with the first female rabbi in Israel. She explains that the Jewish faith is built on miracles.

Next comes a visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Buddhist shrine in Hong Kong where students pray for good grades and then the Vatican. Freeman speaks with the head of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to talk about miracles, and how it is impossible to understand Jesus unless you accept miracles. Next they talk about the required miracles to proclaim a person a saint and the process to determine if the hearings are miraculous or not.

Does the hand of God really intervene in matters of life and death and the ups and downs of life? Or does it all happen by chance? What or who governs the seemingly random event of our lives? For this, Freeman even talks about the seeming miracle of him ending up as an actor in Hollywood. Did he make it happen? Was he lucky or was Someone up there watching over him?

How rare does an event have to be for us to call it miraculous?

From the ancient Romans who believed their gods determined the outcome of sporting events to Chinese Daoism, to Buddhism that looks “inside” for the miracles of love and reconciliation.

Our lives are filled with unexpected twists and turns. Some believe it’s randomness or that we are propelled along. And then there’s the power of healing and faith in a thousand year old hospital in Egypt and the human mind that may have the power to unleash a miracle. What is the human person capable of when it comes to changing the world?

Can faith and prayer improve medical outcomes? The story of a Christian medical doctor gives a moving testimony.

This is fascinating stuff. As Freeman’s narration tells us, to believe in miracles means that there is more to life than what meets the eye, to accept that there is so much that connects us and unites us.

Morgan Freeman believes in miracles and thinks that we should, too. “I believe that miracles, no matter how you define them, bring us hope. They drive us to create reality out of possibility.”

In case you missed the series, the National Geographic Channel has not yet announced when the series will be available on DVD or online. But check out their website for “The Story of God” for some interesting video commentaries.

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