Touched By An Angel Episode: Into The Light

I watched an Touched by An Angel episode this afternoon and it has to be one of the most powerful episodes in the whole series! It ALWAYS gets to me and I have had to share it with you!

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL
SEASON 3
EPISODE 10: Into The Light

Written by Bob Colleary
Created by John Masius

In this episode James Block (David Marciano) is a man who is arrested in a sting robbery. He also happens to have a heart condition and has cheated death in the past. As part of his punishment, he is forced to do community service at a hospital. During his time in the hospital, he cheats death again by having another heart attack. He sees Andrew- the Angel of Death (John Dye). He also sees a bright light and also darkness. When a teenage girl with cystic fibrosis meets James, she tells him that he was given a second chance to do good things and turn his life around. He takes this news the wrong way though. He begins to do all these good things for other patients, including the teenage girl, Amy Ann McCoy (Kirsten Dunst). James does all these good things thinking it will get him into heaven. The Angels have to remind him about his second chance. They remind them that God loves him and that he has choice. Andrew describes how death isn't scary. He describes heaven as a beautiful place and that light is only the beginning. James turns his life over to God after learning that he cannot to heaven on his own. At the end of the episode, Amy Ann is dying and James tell her that everything is okay and to allow Jesus to take her to heaven. Andrew touches her and she passes away to Elvis Presley' s version of Precious Lord, Take My Hand.

(Some information given through http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0732071/)

I find this episode to be truly amazing. Today, we try to do everything on our own. We make our own choices and do what we want to do, when we want to do it. We forget to let go of the reigns and realize that nothing is possible on our own. For example, I wouldn't be doing well in college on my own, I wouldn't have survived to birth on my own, I wouldn't be proving Dr's wrong on my own. We all given chance after chance to see the light. We just need to let the of reigns.