Christmas Awakenings
READING AGE 16+
Christmas Awakenings is a compilation of four short, uplifting and Inspiring Christmas stories.
A Star Bright Christmas
A young family can’t be late with their mortgage payment again. So two days before Christmas, at the onset of a blizzard, he goes to town leaving his wife and two young sons alone to endure a blackout on the 24th of December. Will he make it back in time for Christmas?
Christmas Promises
When a young newlywed soldier recently returned from Iraq tells his young wife he has to work Christmas Day she goes ballistic. He had promised her they would never have to spend another holiday alone. When she wakes one morning she finds his things removed from the apartment as well as all the furniture and fixtures not the ones they had picked out together. She cries herself to sleep on the ‘new’ couch and wakes up to discover the true meaning of spending the holiday together.
Christmas Salvation
A widower and a younger woman get to know each other better but not until after he accepts the concept that ‘life goes by in a flash and you don’t want to miss anything’.
A Palm Tree for Christmas
A young family travels from the northeastern United States to the hot sweltering south for a better way of life. Sunny days, sandy beaches, and summer heat. Their dreams are squashed when neither can find jobs and their surplus of money from the sale of their house is down to their last pennies. Until Christmas Eve....
Christmas Awakenings is created by Lorelei Confer, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.
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November came quickly and the money dwindled further. Gene had not found a job and Heather had not received an unemployment check or found a job. Thanksgiving and the memory of family gatherings was always present on their minds. They bought a small turkey for Thanksgiving Day and celebrated by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade ……
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