The Cedar Chest

Carrie Hughes is a widowed mom, living in a rural Michigan town and raising her children, Nora and Gabriel, alone after her firefighter husband Tim dies on duty. As she grieves, she reaches out to meet new friends, including an older widow, Judy. Carrie takes a trip to visit Judy's small Wisconsin town, and goes to shop for a cedar memory chest for her late husband.

David Hensel, a salesman at his family's quaint Amish furniture shop, lost his wife Sarah to cancer two years before. He works long hours, still paying off her medical bills while raising his young son.

When Carrie and David meet, they share an immediate bond. Both struggle with insecurities- Carrie with her curvy fuller figure, and David having grown up in the shadow of his successful, self-absorbed brother. Both are trying to live out their Christian faith after losing a spouse, and dealing with the pain of loneliness. They soon begin a long-distance correspondence, learning to laugh again- and love again.

But after David commits a sin he regrets, can he still become the loving man of faith Carrie needs? Can teenage Nora accept her mother's need for love again? A story of love, loss and forgiveness.