Kevin Morrell never saw it coming. His biggest client did
not renew their contract with Kevin's company. He may have
to let his employees go and lose his lease on his office
space if he can't find other work. This comes at the same
time he and his wife are expecting twin boys, and it's
almost Christmas. Kevin is completely devastated. He does
not know where to turn.
On a weekend afternoon, Lynn Brandt quietly tells her son,
Thomas, to get his sister Sara and get in the car, no other
explanation. After several minutes, she comes out of the
house with only her pocketbook and they drive away. Lynn
cannot take any more of her abusive, alcoholic husband.
She's leaving this time for good. They drive to Greer,
South Carolina, where she tries to start over with nothing.
Lynn finds a temporary waitressing job and an old run-down
trailer in which to live. Sara is unhappy with the whole
move, but Thomas takes it in stride. His biggest problem is
being bullied at school for wearing the same clothes all
the time; that and the fact that Thomas puts the bully to
shame with his moves on the basketball court.
Adding to Kevin's worries, one of their babies is not
growing as it should. Baby A is doing just fine, but Baby B
remains unusually small, even for a twin. His wife, Jenny,
is a woman of strong faith and tries to reassure Kevin that
everything will be alright. Kevin can't see beyond his
present circumstances. While doing some Christmas shopping,
Kevin sees an Angel Tree sponsored by the Salvation Army.
Jenny encourages Kevin to pick one of the paper angels and
buy Christmas presents for that child.
When Lynn loses her temporary waitressing job, she is about
as low in spirit as Kevin. She's too proud to take
handouts, but can't see any other way to provide for her
family. She signs her children up for Christmas gifts
through the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program. The angel
Kevin picks from the tree in the mall is Thomas Brandt. In
the trying times just before the holidays, Kevin does
manage to purchase the items on Thomas' list, but when
Jenny gives birth early and Kevin's world is turned upside
down, he forgets to drop the gifts by the Salvation Army.
Jimmy Wayne with Travis Thrasher have given
us a gem in a story of hope for a better future. It's a
story about having faith to believe that God will take care
of us if we will trust Him and not keep taking our burdens
back, trying to work them out ourselves. Thomas is an
endearing character who turns a bad situation around and
makes good happen from it. This story is a winner; I know
you'll enjoy it.
This is the story about a man and a boy one December. A man
whose life is changed by a simple expression of kindness,
and a boy who takes that expression of kindness and shows
the true meaning of Christmas.
Kevin Morrell is a 43-year-old husband and father who runs
a successful design and marketing firm that's crashed into
the suffering economy. Attempting to navigate the busyness
of the mall at Christmas, Kevin is humbled when he stumbles
across the Salvation Army's Angel Tree Project. His wife
insists that he take a paper ornament.
The name on the ornament is Thomas Brandt, a 15-year-old
still reeling from the implosion of his family — from years
of verbal abuse from an alcoholic father to a mother who
finally left him behind, only to find herself and her
children penniless and struggling. The only thing has
allowed Lynn to survive is her faith. Thomas shares that
faith, but he also wonders why God has seemingly abandoned
them.
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