Letters to an Unknown Daughter

Showing a parallel between a personal struggle and the challenges of faith, filmmaker Anita Keagy, founder of JoyShop Ministries, looks at how her relationship with a daughter she gave up for adoption is much like the relationship God wants with believers (as described in the Bible). Shot in a style suggesting that Keagy is giving her testimony to a small group of people in a house, the filmmaker recalls when she unexpectedly became pregnant as a teenager in the mid-1970s and, with the support of her loving parents, decided to give up her baby for adoption. As was common at the time, she was told to keep her eyes closed during the birth and did not hold her newborn infant. Over the years, Keagy contributed letters and photos to a file at the adoption agency in hopes that her child, Twila, might someday want to know about her biological mother (eventually, mother and daughter were reunited). The message Keagy wants to convey is that the Bible is much like that folder she created for Twila—messages from a loving God who cares about people and wants them to know the thoughts and feelings of their creator. Told with conviction, this true story will speak to Christians looking for inspiration or renewed passion in their own biblical devotions. Recommended. Aud: P. (C. Block)