It's Christmas time and, of course, "it's the most wonderful time of the year," but it's also a time of great pain and suffering for many. You have seen them, I'm sure...homeless people trying to keep warm in a tent in the park...mothers trying to figure out a way, any way, to get their children a nice present...people who have lost their dearest loved ones and who feel desperately sad...you have seen them, I know, or maybe you are one of them yourself.
It's a Wonderful Life is fantastic, with its story of a bumbling angel arriving to save a despondent man by sharing with him all the ways the man has been a positive influence on others. But it's not every day that an angel pops in to remind us of our value.
I propose that Christmas Jars might be the perfect holiday movie for all of us who might be experiencing some tough times this year.
The movie is based on a bestselling book that came out about fifteen years ago.
Christmas Jars is the story of a young woman named Hope who is robbed shortly after her mother's death. Hope is surprised to find that someone has left a jar of money, clearly labeled Christmas Jar, near her apartment door. But who?
Hope's journalistic instincts kick in and she is off to find out who her benefactor is. She soon learns that others have received jars. She sets off to interview some of these people.
Before long, Hope has accumulated a lot of clues about the person behind the Christmas Jars and she goes undercover to find out more about this person.
Christmas Jars is a mystery, a romance, a holiday story---a movie that oozes with warmth, sweetness, and silly humor, even some outright sentimentality. Christmas Jars is full of people that are so delightfully kind and genuinely loving that you will wish they were in your family.
Yes, Christmas Jars is much like It's a Wonderful Life, but with a key difference. With Christmas Jars, you don't have to wait for an angel to appear in your life to feel better. You can take action and you can do it today. You can do it as small as you like, buying someone who looks a bit sad a coffee at Starbucks or you can leave your own Christmas jar filled with cash outside the door of someone down on their luck.
And don't think you have to wait a year to save up a jar of money. No, a kind word is enough. A door held for another person. A smile.
Yes, you are helping someone else. But you are also helping yourself.
Christmas Jars may be the perfect holiday movie.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS:
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Jason F. Wright
Hope is an aspiring reporter who has had her fair share of tragedy in life. Abandoned at birth, she's grieving the recent death of her adopted mother when her apartment is burglarized of all her possessions. While reporting the burglary to the police, Hope discovers a jar full of money, labeled "Christmas Jar." Shocked and grateful for this act of kindness, Hope discovers that people all over her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, have been receiving Christmas Jars for years during times of need. The jars are always anonymous and always contain different amounts. In this heartwarming Christmas classic, Hope goes undercover to discover the secret behind the Christmas jars, putting into motion a series of events that will change her life, and her community, forever.
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Haven't seen this movie, but it's true for a lot of people it is rather a sad time even in families. The children have their partners and they have parents too and then to combine the dates, I have a few friends they will be alone at Christmas their children are in the other family.
ReplyDeleteI’ve never heard of this movie but it sounds sweet!
ReplyDeleteI read the book years ago but it didn't leave a lasting impression on my. It sounds like the movie is worth checking out.
ReplyDeleteMost homeless here in the UK seem to sleep in shop doorways and beg though I have seen tents
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lovely movie, will have to check it out.
ReplyDeletei haven't heard of it. thanks for sharing
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