Jonathan Roumie and Dallas Jenkins recently shared a deeply personal viewer letter about grief, financial pressure and the struggle to trust God when life becomes painfully uncertain.
“This is perhaps one of the most emotional and heartfelt letters I’ve ever written,” the letter began as it was read in a video connected to THE CHOSEN.
The letter’s writer described loving the series with her husband, then watching Season 3 during a season marked by a miscarriage, a job loss and a serious injury to one of their children. The details are offered as testimony, not as a lesson that suffering can be neatly explained.
“We were told the baby had no heartbeat,” the writer said, recounting the loss. Four days later, she says, her husband lost his job, and six days after that their son needed surgery after an accident.
The family’s pain made the series’ story of Peter walking on water feel uncomfortably close. The writer says she had always been drawn to that Bible account, but now the image of stepping out of the boat spoke directly to a season in which every ordinary support seemed to move beneath her feet.
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“I think the Season 3 finale was written just for me for such a time as this,” she wrote.
Roumie and Jenkins listen as the letter connects the show’s treatment of suffering with the writer’s own sleepless nights and unanswered questions. The letter does not pretend that Scripture erased grief; it describes a slower return to trust through the story, the Psalms and the reminder that God had not abandoned her.
“You created a turning point for me,” the writer told the cast and crew near the end. “You and your message and your work pulled me back. It centered me in His word. It set my feet upon the rock and gave me a firm place to stand.”
That distinction matters. THE CHOSEN did not claim to replace a church, a counselor or the patient work of mourning; the letter describes a television series becoming one unexpected instrument through which a hurting viewer returned to Scripture and community.
The official THE CHOSEN site offers information about the series, while Matthew 14 records the account of Peter walking on water that the letter references. 2 Corinthians 4 is another passage named in the letter.
For Movieguide® readers, the clip offers a quiet picture of media serving people well: not by giving easy answers, but by helping someone name the storm, return to the Word and take the next step with faith that may still feel as small as a mustard seed.
The clip also gives viewers a picture of why stories can matter in a crisis. A scene cannot carry a family through every practical need, but it can give language to sorrow and remind a tired heart that it is not the only heart asking where God is.
That is why the clip avoids easy triumphalism. The letter remembers pain honestly while also remembering that God can meet people through faithful work created for the good of others.
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