An Anonymous Gift to Paul Young Kept on Giving – Guideposts

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Money slipped under the door of a man struggling to support his family brings about a Christmas miracle.

 

When you’re a freelance cameraman like I am, you can’t always pick and choose your assignments. Often, you accept work not out of any particular affinity you have for the subject but because you have bills to pay and a family to feed.

 

Sometimes, though, you’re fortunate enough to land an assignment that you can really get into and feel passionate about, even learn from. You pray for jobs like that. Well, I do anyway.

 

That’s why I was pumped when I got a call from a local client last April. They were selected to shoot a documentary on Paul Young, a novelist in my area who wrote the surprise best seller The Shack. They asked if I’d be their cameraman.

 

Are you kidding? I thought. I loved shooting documentaries. And about a book that my wife, Julie, and I had both enjoyed immensely? It’s the story of a man who meets God when he’s at the lowest point in his life, inspired by Paul Young’s own dramatic spiritual journey.

 

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