What miracle(s) happened in this story? How did Miriam’s understanding of miracles change or stay the same throughout the story?
Before reading this story, you were asked to consider what a miracle is. How has your thinking about miracles changed or stayed the same by reading this story?
Often we think of miracles as things that happen randomly, without our control or involvement. Yet the miracles that happen in this book all required some form of participation from people. People only noticed the apparition after Miriam and Kate cut a cross in the movie screen, for example, and Miriam had to do something that frightened her to save her brother. Do you think this makes the miracles more or less miraculous? Why?
Write a story, draw a picture or in some other way re-create your choice of one of the miracles from this book, or a miracle you yourself have gotten to experience in your own life.