Love’s Unending Legacy (2007) (TV)

ONE OF A SERIES

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Love’s Unending Legacy, a made-for-TV (Hallmark) movie, is the fifth movie in a series. Janette Oke is the author of the book series. The first six books of the series have been made into movies.

According to a description on Janette Oke’s website her Love Comes Softly series “follows the lives of one family through three generations - beginning with

a hated "marriage of convenience," through hardships common to life on the prairie in an earlier time, leading at last to an abiding love. These eight stories reflect the enduring hope of Christian love and faith despite adversity and hardship. More than 6.5 million copies of the books in this series have been sold.”

The titles of the first five books/movies are: Love Comes Softly (2003) (TV), Love’s Enduring Promise (2004)(TV), Love’s Long Journey (2005)(TV), Love’s Abiding Joy (2006) and Love’s Unending Legacy (2007) (TV). The sixth in the series, Love’s Unfolding Dream (2007) (TV), was recently presented on the Hallmark Channel.

Love's Unfolding Dream is the story of a recently widowed young woman, Missie, who realizes it is time to move on after the tragic death two years earlier of her husband. She travels back to her father's community, where she lived originally. She is sure that she will never find a relationship like the one she had with her now deceased husband Willie. While adjusting to being a single mother raising her young son and trying to establish a household of her own, she adopts Belinda, a troubled young teenager, who is one of the children brought to town on the "orphan train." She eventually falls in love with the town's young Sheriff who helps her deal with the challenges Belinda brings Missie.

I have purchased and watched the first five movies in the series and would recommend them as wholesome family entertainment. They remind one of the Little House on the Prairie TV Series.

RATING

I would rate the entire series of movies **** out of *****. The entire series of movies are solid, wholesome, uplifting stories about the challenges facing pioneers in the West in the late 19th century. It gives us a glimpse at the hardships and problems they faced.

The stories are good human interest dramas. A system of absolute morality, an assumption and recognition of God’s involvement in daily affairs of man plays a prominent role. Our growing godless, secularist, hedonistic 21st century society could learn much from the simple faith and principles portrayed in these films. I highly recommend any and all of the movies.

It is best to start with the first and move on through the entire series so you can follow the story more fully. Your children may even get interested in reading the series of books. It certainly would be much better than wasting time reading Philip Pullman’s empty and atheistic His Dark Materials trilogy, of which the miserable movie, Golden Compass, is the first in the wicked series.
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If your local library or movie rental store does not have any of the Love Comes Softly series, they are worth the purchase price. Prices at Wal-Mart and other discount stores may bring you additional value.