After her beloved grandmother's passing before Christmas, an apostate single mother writes a letter to the God she had rejected.

SYNOPSIS:

Successful marketing executive, Elisa Ballantyne is finally ready to return home to Trinidad after sixteen years apart from her family. “God’s answer to my letters!” Granny Ballantyne would say, referring to the handwritten prayers she’d regularly write to God. But Elisa’s return is overshadowed by her grandmother’s sudden passing soon after her arrival. Being home also re-opens emotional wounds from losing her fiancé, Brent, killed at a Missionary Hospital in the Amazon. Then, her brother Steven decides to sue over ownership of Granny’s house and a media scandal breaks out over Elisa’s past relationship with her daughter’s father, now running for the US Senate.

An unexpected fight between Steven and a pushy reporter lands him in the hospital where a standard medical procedure reveals the truth about the Ballantyne family. This revelation changes the whole dynamic between the siblings. He drops the case and she reconciles with him.

An encounter with Jesus drives Elisa to search Granny’s bedroom to find the answers she’s been longing for in handwritten letters tucked away in Granny’s old Bible. Elisa discovers that several of her grandmother’s letters to God for His guidance, provision and protection of her and her daughter were answered. An old crumpled letter from Brent provides the emotional release she needs to move on and helps her recognize her unjustifiable anger towards God. Finally, she finds a letter addressed to her signed “Love Forever, Daddy God”.

Realizing that she has always been deeply loved and never abandoned, Elisa seeks God’s forgiveness and thanks Him for His unfailing love and faithfulness. She communicates her gratitude and restored commitment through her own letter to “Dearest Daddy God”. Days later she performs a special song to God at the Church’s memorial service for persons killed at the Missionary Hospital.

[This script was a semi-finalist at the 14th Annual Kairos Prize for Spiritually Uplifting Screenplays by First Time and Beginning Screenwriters].