
Part of Series
“Christmas wasn’t Christmas if it didn’t feel like Christmas.” Officer Matt Randall is the best of the best. He’s a good, strong man, beloved by his family and his community. He’s always been enough, and he is confident in his ability to keep that position. But Kalsyia is still very chaotic from the uprising last summer. When his son faces a deadly situation, Matt’s confidence is a little shaken. And when he finds his wife breaking down with stress and frustration over the country’s turmoil, Matt realizes that he really isn’t enough after all. He’s not strong enough to protect his loved ones from everything, nor wise enough to know how to care for them. He doesn’t even know if he’s good enough to win his paradise. While Matt struggles with his doubt, discouragement, and depression, he finds that he isn’t even strong enough to hide his pain from his loved ones. It certainly won’t be a very happy Christmas for them if he can’t get himself back together. As his family begins to grow tense, Matt searches desperately for hope. Will he ever be enough, some day? Or will his loved ones fall apart because of his brokenness? Can Christmas still be Christmas, even if everything is broken and un-Christmasy?


