<P>A perfect Christmas for Lela Edwards this year would include the presence of her husband her three daughters and her favorite granddaughter Darcie. They would each be happy healthy and properly married. But life doesn't always unfold in a perfect way even for God-loving churchgoing people like these.</P><P>Lela's husband of 50 years Walter has recently passed and the daughters now live in towns and states far from the Chicago neighborhood where they were raised.</P><P>Darcie is traveling to Missouri City Texas to be with her mother not to Chicago to be with her grandmother whom she expects to come down hard on her for deciding to divorce her husband and the father of her unborn child. Lela is upset and annoyed with Darcie and herself for breaking her own time-honored tradition of making a quilt to celebrate each family wedding. The quilt is still in separate pieces and apparently so is the marriage of Doug and Darcie.</P><P>The Christmas season is about celebrating the birth and meaning of Christ; about the hope and inspiration that the story we revisit each year offers. So as the days of the season progress Lela participates in a Bible study group that focuses on the Virgin Mary. This is the cold season in Chicago and rough weather literally and figuratively is ahead for Lela her family neighbors and fellow church members but in the Scriptures are messages and guidance. If they heed the lessons of the Virgin Mary they will learn from their mistakes and misjudgments of each other and find favor with God.</P><P>A Simon & Schuster audio production.</P>