God Can: The Movie and the Story

By Gary B. McCleod

Grandma Emma and Grandpa Joe haven't been home to Alabama in over twenty-five years. And although a family reunion is taking place, it is not their sole reason for going. Over Fifty years ago, their grandfather a preacher, made an altar built of tin and called it Jireh meaning "God can". Whoever kneeled at the can and petitioned it prayers would be answered. However, a job promotion due to their son Tom puts a damper on their plans, which was to take their granddaughter Tameka to Alabama to be healed by the can. Unknown to everyone, Grandpa Joe is also in need of a miracle from the can. He was diagnosed with colon cancer. Will the can heal them? or is this a form of idol worship?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664199743

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T ameka

dashes down the ramp in her wheelchair to help Grandma with breakfast. "I am sick and tired of this old wheelchair and now my parents have gone and put this old dumb ramp in here as if I’m never going to walk again. But I’ll show them.

I’ll show them all that I am going to walk again." Tameka was only thirteen. Longlegged and wrapped up in a nice brown frame. A beautiful young girl with long hair that everyone said she inherited from her great-grandma Mattie. Her eyes were black like frying pans and she had dimples as deep as the ocean. She was a very playful girl, which made it easier for her to forget about the confinement to this wheelchair. It still seems like yesterday when she was riding her bike home from school when someone ran a stop sign and crippled her, so say the doctors for life.

I will walk again, she cries, for an angel tells her this every night at her bedside. Her grandparents believes her if nobody else does and this is their real reason for going to Alabama on vacation. Nonetheless, the whole family planned a trip to Alabama in two weeks, hoping that this vacation would help ease the pain the family has suffered the past two years. And everyone was excited even Tameka.

Grandma?

Yes, Tameka, answered grandma.

"I can’t wait to go on vacation this year. I mean, to a place I’ve never been and to see