Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas

First off, this series is so strong in connection and love. This one hits just a little more.straight to the heart! I love that it talks straight about Jesus! It's so sweet and caring. I actually cried watching this one. Perfect casting!

My wife and I saw this program when it was first aired on Hallmark a few days ago (Nov 2014). We had watched all the previous episodes of Signed, Sealed and Delivered, and had enjoyed them for their story lines as well as for the individual characters who are nicely developed and who also form an effective ensemble.

This Christmas special is almost breathtaking. I'd love to know more about the writer(s) involved and how the director and actors viewed the project also. Particularly good is how this Christmas episode provides enough background and details about the characters so that a first-time watcher of the series is not lost or bewildered.

I plan to add to this review after I watch the program again (on DVR). The actors in this series and the guest stars all deserve recognition for their work.

Right now I can say this beautifully filmed and edited show offers a lovely composition of interesting characters, dynamic and subtle relationship issues, tension and pathos, familiar cinematic devices that older viewers will recognize and all can appreciate ... and ... some clear, eloquent expressions of doubts about Christmas and then a stirring vision of the most basic true meaning of the Christmas message.

Whether the viewer is secular, Christian, or of another worldview, the overall presentation is at once intriguing, uplifting and satisfying. This two-hour program showcases the best of what the Hallmark Channel aims to offer viewers.

This was amazingly refreshing

for once in a very long time

a movie which glorifies The God of Heaven

and His Son Christ Jesus!

I bless The Name of God for creating the people who brought this movie into being.

This movie was well done technically,

and it was scripturally inspiring!

"There is no fear in love;

but perfect love casteth out fear:

because fear hath torment.

He that feareth is not made perfect in love."

1 John 4:18

"When The Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon The Throne of His Glory:

And before Him shall be gathered all nations:

and He shall separate them one from another,

as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

And He shall set the sheep on His Right Hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall The King say unto them on His Right Hand,

'Come, ye blessed of My Father,

inherit The Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

For I was an hungred, and ye gave Me meat:

I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took Me in:

Naked, and ye clothed Me:

I was sick, and ye visited Me:

I was in prison, and ye came unto Me.

Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying,

Lord, when saw we Thee an hungred, and fed Thee?

Or thirsty, and gave Thee drink?

When saw we Thee a stranger, and took Thee in?

Or naked, and clothed Thee?

Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee?

And The King shall answer and say unto them,

Verily I say unto you,

In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren,

ye have done it unto Me.'"

Matthew 25.

It is rare to see a special-episode that is so carefully well crafted. The script had a lot to accomplish and it did so with excellence. Having followed the series, my household watched in amazement as newcomers in our audience picked up on and enjoyed as if they'd been following the show all along. The series core strength is its abundance sentiment, with nuances of miracles / belief in God. For the Christmas 2-hour episode they "took it up a notch" in both areas, yet were never heavy handed or preachy. Amazing. This series, perhaps better than any other on television, weaves fun and funny suspense that manages to draw the viewer in tugging on heart-strings along the way.

This is a nice Christmas story with a bit of heartache but with a lot more heart. There is a little girl who writes to God to help her mother who is in the hospital. The team members of the Lost Letters comprised of team leader Oliver (Eric Mabius), Shane (Kristin Booth), Rita (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe), and Norman (Geoff Gustafson) take the weathered and worn letter addressed to God and so they start their magic and commence finding this little girl who wrote this mystery letter asking for God's intervention.

While in the process of finding who the little girl is and more importantly where this little girl is, the team is feeling in the Christmas spirit except for Shane. All four members have some personal feelings around Christmas that they eventually share with each other, and they are touching and heartfelt stories, especially Oliver's childhood Christmas story.

If you believe in the magic of Christmas, and the spirit of (any) religion, than you will most likely enjoy this feature film in the Signed, Sealed and Delivery series. I give it a 7 out of 10 IMDB rating.