Yooooooo Thats My college Teacher Yohance Myles.(Michael) He taught me in Drama class at Jackson State University in 2013. How cool is that! I knew he was an actor but this was a great surprise...
There are many, many, most black families like this. My generation and my parents did not have tv or movies to know that our families were like this and we did not compare ourselves to anyone.
A loving portrait of a Black 🖤 family featuring a drug-free environment, exploring generational wealth and just good old fun! Don't miss this one for the holidays. . .
This movie is beautiful, i love how these siblings were competing but still loving one another, advising and helping one another. Now this is what i call a healthy competition.
It was a breath of fresh air to watch an excellent family Christmas movie.🍿No drama or negativity, just family coming together. It's a blessing to see grown children giving back to their parents. What a great way to spend my afternoon, I love this
Perfect family movie! No curse words, no inappropriate scenes. Perfect to watch with the small kids🙏🏾 will be watching it again with my family on Christmas Day
This is the comment I've been looking for. We just finished "Cooking Up Christmas". I had to skip a couple scenes (anger, sadness) but otherwise lighthearted and clean, no cussing...romantic comedy.
Thanks for sharing. Just looking at the bigger picture. Now comes a prayer requiring faith for JESUS CHRIST TO BRING BACK HIS OWN using caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark when aiming to solve a problem then creating another resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive justification by grace even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned in order for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
Very nice, wholesome, clean black movie, with no cursing, sexual, inappropriate scenes, no violence. Wow! I loved it! It's like the hallmark movies, with mostly black people, which I've always wondered why there aren't more black movies like these, displaying middle class - rich families that are just feel good, hopeful movies, which is what the world needs now. God knows, with what's going on in the world, we don't need any sad movies with negative vibes; we need uplifting, hopeful movies to get people feeling more hopeful.
I like how Oprah incorporates reading and entrepreneurship into her movies; also education and reading. Imagine a youth asking his mother to stay up longer to do more reading. Most youths want to stay up longer to do more playing.
Love the fact that in the family disagreements they weren't disagreeable (well maybe once). They lead with love which can't lead you wrong! Great movie!
And it's good to show that if someone says something while upset or gets sideways for a minute, things can be repaired, talked over, made right, & forgiven. Love heals. In real life, it helps to have seen someone change gears, make amends, learn, grow, apologize.... I love it when writers include scenes on how to do the hard things, to face up, or soften up, & keep it real.
Wow. I loved the movie. Us black and brown people feel such a relatable story, and it really hit home. In this movie, there is nothing obscure about how it reflects the reality of black and brown people lives. It's an example of working together and a great reminder of what love and support should look like.
It's such a beautiful thing to see people who look like me in the movies. Makes me want to play Romaine Virgo's 'Melanin' all day. Great story and acting. Thanks for sharing🎄 Merry Christmas everyone🎄
Agreed! I haven’t been too much into Hallmark channel this at Christmas this year or last year. The representation is always lacking. They have gotten a lil better with diversity but it still needs some work… Lifetime does a better job with that tho.
First Christmas without family as I just found out at 42 that I am apparently a Late Discovery Adoptee 😒. I smiled through this movie but wish I saw it in better spirits... Family does matter.,💞
This is such a beautiful movie.. Oprah we need a part 2 to see the wedding with Angie and Michael and Tony and Brenda new baby and Jennifer launching her cookbook!!! So much to see for our Christmas hearts. I watch this family movie at least 3 times a week. It is a so great. Matter a fact all the Christmas movies have been just a great. Bake War, Sisterly Christmas are such great movies!!
I absolutely love this movie. Wonderful cast, excellent delivery, spot on message and Christmas magic that seems real and just...wholesome without being hokey or dumb.
Own network is producing some of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I've been watching African movies because I know I'm going to see so many black people, but I'm thoroughly enjoying these Christmas movies produced by own. Thanks for this excellent production.
I love watching black movies without the fighting, cussing, killing, colorism etc just getting along, speaking normally, loving each other, good times, food and embracing family and culture. We are normal people lets normalize our normalcy.
LOVED IT!!! it's wonderful to see the meaning of the importance of Christmas and family. That parents work extra hard to keep the family together and give their children warmth and a sense of belonging. Bravo to the wonderful actors as well. The ladies are gorgeous! Great work and thank you all! I enjoyed it immensely. Merry Christmas.
Thanks OWN...love seeing an all black cast in these Christmas movies. Also, thanks for bringing back some of the favorite actors and actresses of "yesterday."
It was a great movie and just was a wise mother bringing her children together to learn an important lesson that nobody had to own the restaurant/bagel shop could all put their special spin on it and still keep it in the family. I love this movie and it was well written and well acted equally♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thoroughly enjoyed this wholesome Christmas movie. Thank you all! And wonderful to see black people in a tv Christmas movie showing all shades of blackness with happy couples and stable, loving black men. This exists in real life. So good to see the media reflect it. And if it doesn't for you, it becomes an example to choose from if you so desire. A real feel-good movie!
agreed!!! there are soooo many great black men around. it is what we choose to acept as black women. i have always loved the old school respectable gentlemen!!!
I haven't spent Christmas with my family in 23yrs...jus me @ my Son (that's how old he is). If u knew my family you'd understand why!!! My friends are my family @ this movie made "us"feel loved by them!!!
Tfs. Very good movie. I got teary eyed at the end. I felt the emotion of it. I thought the actors acted well. I'm glad they didn't over act like in other holiday movies I've seen.
I have just discovered OWN and I’m hooked. It’s so refreshing to see wholesome films promoting strong family values instead of all the nonsense aired on Netflix and on tv. Best of all, it’s an all-black cast too
I love this movie , few minutes it started. Growing with a family is a blessing. We might not be physically together but we love each other. Missed my deceased parents too. Thank you for sharing.
I truly enjoyed watching this Christmas movie, so touching and heartfelt ❤️ much love to the cast and the writers for reminding us how important it is for family to communicate and come to together.
This was an exceptional wonderful, wonderful movie. Everyone needs to sit and enjoy it. Such love and joy and forgiveness. Great family and true to life
I've been watching these Christmas movies all evening. I love Christmas 🎄 and I watch these types of movies all year around. Lifetime, Hallmark, and now Own for all my Christmas fixes.
I'm going through a lot lately,and my emotions are just every where,I really needed something to clam me down and put me together. This movie just made my day as I smile all through ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for the great piece.
I just watched one before this called ‘Cooking up Christmas’ (also on OWN). That one was a great movie too. Hope you’re feeling better, have a blessed 2022
This movie was awesome I really enjoyed it seeing families just come together having a good time no violence it was just awesome I love it thank you very much
This is really a great Christmas movie. This is an inspiration especially to the family who are having disputes. Let's choice to be happy. Have a festive Christmas everyone.
I bypassed this movie a few times. I started watching it and then I would go to something else. Today, I finally finished watching it and I’m so glad I did. Family, food, and memories. ❤❤❤
VERY BEAUTIFUL MOVIE SHOWING IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY LOVE UNDERSTANDING SUPPORT TO EACH OTHER. THE LOVE OF PARENTS TO CHILDREN AND LOVE RESPECT OF CHILDREN TO PARENTS MATTERS A LOT. GREAT FAMILY VALUE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS KIND OF INSPIRING MOVIE.
Be brave, your heart will lead you the way, to a new version of yourself, full of love and light, finally you recognise the illusion of negative patterns of the mind and you are moving forward with great inner peace, much love to all of you 🙏✨❤️
I love it💯. Thank you to all those who made this movie possible. There's nothing as good as having a family ❤......it's one of the things money cannot buy. Thank you for helping us visualize 👀 this👍👍👍👍
That's just the thing. You said it was out there years ago & I'm a movie collector. Yet I'm just now hearing or seeing about this great black family film 🎥. Seems like some one decided we all just want the brutal, violent, sexual, negative drama filled typed movies cause we're black. There's a big audience for these good hearted movies with black folks as the many or the most main characters that plenty of us love more or just as much as any other type ❤ 💕 💗 of black oriented movies 🎬. Hope to see more of this kind!!!!❤ Happy Holidays & a 😊 Joyous. Blessed christmas 🎄 🙏 💓 ❤ ❤!!!!!!!
Aww, thank you so so much for uploading this wonderful movie for us. I appreciate it and I hope this coming year is filled with love, health , peace, and joy for you and yours XXXOOO
Well life always has some form of drama & challenges as they movie did but it was done in a big toxic. Hateful, abusive, dysfunctional way that so much media & shows are doing now. The older generation usually brings more calm & respect 🙏 that the family has to follow mostly. That's still needed today. But many families live in separate states or cities.
Very good movie. OWN, should continue to make these movies, and start making Christmas movies for other ethnic groups who also haven't been traditionally seen on any screen. It would be so nice if OWN, could do that for other groups of kids, and families, so that they also could see themselves on the screen, especially at Christmas time, again very good movie.❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉
Absolutely beautiful everything about this movie shows nothing but love for family and how they can pull together and get things family is important and we all should pitch in to help each other no matter what to the writer thank you for the positive message producers directors actresses and actors great cast great work great job thanks for the movie happy holidays peace and love
You know, It just feels sooo good smiling at a Christmastime movie that has your OWN TALENTED BlACK BEAUTIFUL WOMEN and BLACK HANDSOME MEN 👑👑 AESOME! AWESOME!👑👑
Yooooooo Thats My college Teacher Yohance Myles.(Michael) He taught me in Drama class at Jackson State University in 2013. How cool is that! I knew he was an actor but this was a great surprise...
awesome portrayal of the of the black family no degrading drama,no drugs and no generational hate
There are many, many, most black families like this. My generation and my parents did not have tv or movies to know that our families were like this and we did not compare ourselves to anyone.
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You said that right!! YES
A loving portrait of a Black 🖤 family featuring a drug-free environment, exploring generational wealth and just good old fun! Don't miss this one for the holidays. . .
Wholesome and sweet🥰
This movie is beautiful, i love how these siblings were competing but still loving one another, advising and helping one another. Now this is what i call a healthy competition.
It was a breath of fresh air to watch an excellent family Christmas movie.🍿No drama or negativity, just family coming together. It's a blessing to see grown children giving back to their parents. What a great way to spend my afternoon, I love this
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Perfect family movie! No curse words, no inappropriate scenes. Perfect to watch with the small kids🙏🏾 will be watching it again with my family on Christmas Day
This is the comment I've been looking for. We just finished "Cooking Up Christmas". I had to skip a couple scenes (anger, sadness) but otherwise lighthearted and clean, no cussing...romantic comedy.
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Thanks for sharing. Just looking at the bigger picture. Now comes a prayer requiring faith for JESUS CHRIST TO BRING BACK HIS OWN using caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE.
YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors, their families and friends. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark when aiming to solve a problem then creating another resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive justification by grace even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned in order for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
Very nice, wholesome, clean black movie, with no cursing, sexual, inappropriate scenes, no violence. Wow! I loved it! It's like the hallmark movies, with mostly black people, which I've always wondered why there aren't more black movies like these, displaying middle class - rich families that are just feel good, hopeful movies, which is what the world needs now. God knows, with what's going on in the world, we don't need any sad movies with negative vibes; we need uplifting, hopeful movies to get people feeling more hopeful.
I like how Oprah incorporates reading and entrepreneurship into her movies; also education and reading. Imagine a youth asking his mother to stay up longer to do more reading. Most youths want to stay up longer to do more playing.
Great point! 👌🏽💯
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Isn't that the truth!
What reading?? There was no reading.
Love the fact that in the family disagreements they weren't disagreeable (well maybe once). They lead with love which can't lead you wrong! Great movie!
And it's good to show that if someone says something while upset or gets sideways for a minute, things can be repaired, talked over, made right, & forgiven. Love heals. In real life, it helps to have seen someone change gears, make amends, learn, grow, apologize.... I love it when writers include scenes on how to do the hard things, to face up, or soften up, & keep it real.
All I can say, I felt like my family was in each movie. I have shared Own's movies with everyone.
Wow. I loved the movie. Us black and brown people feel such a relatable story, and it really hit home. In this movie, there is nothing obscure about how it reflects the reality of black and brown people lives. It's an example of working together and a great reminder of what love and support should look like.
It's such a beautiful thing to see people who look like me in the movies. Makes me want to play Romaine Virgo's 'Melanin' all day. Great story and acting. Thanks for sharing🎄 Merry Christmas everyone🎄
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Agreed! I haven’t been too much into Hallmark channel this at Christmas this year or last year. The representation is always lacking. They have gotten a lil better with diversity but it still needs some work… Lifetime does a better job with that tho.
Own has done an amazing job at creating movies that capture the American dream without the typecasting nightmare. Great job!
Keep it spiritually clean, positive, real, and soulfully ours. Please Keep It Proud. We Need This!!!
Excellent movie with a happy ending. No drugs, violence or poverty.
Kudos to the script writer, director, and casting director! This was a great movie with a stellar cast.
First Christmas without family as I just found out at 42 that I am apparently a Late Discovery Adoptee 😒. I smiled through this movie but wish I saw it in better spirits... Family does matter.,💞
The moral
of the story was so rich! Excellent script, presentation, scenery, plot, etc. Definitely one of my favorites.
This is such a beautiful movie.. Oprah we need a part 2 to see the wedding with Angie and Michael and Tony and Brenda new baby and Jennifer launching her cookbook!!! So much to see for our Christmas hearts. I watch this family movie at least 3 times a week. It is a so great. Matter a fact all the Christmas movies have been just a great. Bake War, Sisterly Christmas are such great movies!!
Arguably, the best family movie I've ever watch! So beautiful and rich with great values and lessons.
I absolutely love this movie. Wonderful cast, excellent delivery, spot on message and Christmas magic that seems real and just...wholesome without being hokey or dumb.
Own network is producing some of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I've been watching African movies because I know I'm going to see so many black people, but I'm thoroughly enjoying these Christmas movies produced by own. Thanks for this excellent production.
The movie is great, can't stop looking at their makeup....the team did their job..
They definitely understood the assignment. ♥️
Yes Tyler perry needs to hire the people who does the makeup & hair in this movie😂😂
Oprah hit the Jackpot; nice movies, very entertaining, full of twists and turns, no cursing, and very family-oriented.
A smile was on my face all thru this movie...love it🇯🇲🇯🇲
Nice 👍 big up 🇯🇲🇱🇷👌🌷
Love it
Same here
I love watching black movies without the fighting, cussing, killing, colorism etc just getting along, speaking normally, loving each other, good times, food and embracing family and culture. We are normal people lets normalize our normalcy.
This was a great movie ❤Everyone reading this blessings to you and your family.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you too!!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!! I love this time of year 🤗🎄😀🤗❤️🌟
@Sapphire Lewis U Welcome.
Thank you.Merry Christmas to you and yours as well 🎄
...and the same to everyone who's reading this ☃️🎄
Blessings to you, too!
LOVED IT!!! it's wonderful to see the meaning of the importance of Christmas and family. That parents work extra hard to keep the family together and give their children warmth and a sense of belonging. Bravo to the wonderful actors as well. The ladies are gorgeous! Great work and thank you all! I enjoyed it immensely. Merry Christmas.
Loved this movie! Love when our people are portrayed as being happy and successful! ❤ The character "Tony" sounds like Denzel Washington... ☺
Now that is what Family is about, sharing, Caring, and Helping each Other, at all Costs. With A Big Momma And Pop.
Thanks OWN...love seeing an all black cast in these Christmas movies. Also, thanks for bringing back some of the favorite actors and actresses of "yesterday."
It was a great movie and just was a wise mother bringing her children together to learn an important lesson that nobody had to own the restaurant/bagel shop could all put their special spin on it and still keep it in the family. I love this movie and it was well written and well acted equally♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thoroughly enjoyed this wholesome Christmas movie. Thank you all! And wonderful to see black people in a tv Christmas movie showing all shades of blackness with happy couples and stable, loving black men. This exists in real life. So good to see the media reflect it. And if it doesn't for you, it becomes an example to choose from if you so desire. A real feel-good movie!
agreed!!! there are soooo many great black men around. it is what we choose to acept as black women. i have always loved the old school respectable gentlemen!!!
This! Yes, exactly!
I want to watch this again before Christmas. It reminds me family means Christmas!
This movie was blacktastic! 👍🏾👍🏾I would love to see more movies like this. ❤🖤💚
Wonderful Christian movie!! I love family oriented Christmas movies with people who look like me!! Keep these beautiful movies coming!
This was a beautiful family movie!
People often forget how important family matters.
Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday!🎄
Amen! Same to you.
Where can I get the cake recipe
This was a wonderful movie where can I get this movie
I haven't spent Christmas with my family in 23yrs...jus me @ my Son (that's how old he is). If u knew my family you'd understand why!!! My friends are my family @ this movie made "us"feel loved by them!!!
It's always good to see positive and practical representations of Black people and families.
Excellent!!! No stereotypes, just good ol' family Xmas. Thank you! ❤
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Tfs. Very good movie. I got teary eyed at the end. I felt the emotion of it. I thought the actors acted well. I'm glad they didn't over act like in other holiday movies I've seen.
I have just discovered OWN and I’m hooked. It’s so refreshing to see wholesome films promoting strong family values instead of all the nonsense aired on Netflix and on tv. Best of all, it’s an all-black cast too
I love this movie , few minutes it started. Growing with a family is a blessing. We might not be physically together but we love each other. Missed my deceased parents too. Thank you for sharing.
What a beautiful family story. Loved it. Merry Christmas
Now this was a bomb movie. My only complaint is it didn’t last longer 😩 but ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the characters and storyline were everything
I truly enjoyed watching this Christmas movie, so touching and heartfelt ❤️ much love to the cast and the writers for reminding us how important it is for family to communicate and come to together.
This was an exceptional wonderful, wonderful movie. Everyone needs to sit and enjoy it. Such love and joy and forgiveness. Great family and true to life
I've been watching these Christmas movies all evening. I love Christmas 🎄 and I watch these types of movies all year around. Lifetime, Hallmark, and now Own for all my Christmas fixes.
Simply wonderful! Thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Family and working together makes all the difference.
What a wonderful movie, I love it
no foul language, no cheating, no calling anyone out of their name
I need more movies like this
I'm going through a lot lately,and my emotions are just every where,I really needed something to clam me down and put me together. This movie just made my day as I smile all through ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for the great piece.
i hop u feel better now. it will pass and smileeeee
I just watched one before this called ‘Cooking up Christmas’ (also on OWN). That one was a great movie too. Hope you’re feeling better, have a blessed 2022
@@melliemel32 Amen 🙏
May whatever all it is or was turn into a silver lining & lead to a little personal miracle. 😁❤ Blessings, blessings, to you!
I wish I could see movies like this all the time,thank you so much
This was such a cute movie. Love holiday movies that have a bakery in it.
This movie was awesome I really enjoyed it seeing families just come together having a good time no violence it was just awesome I love it thank you very much
Great acting 👏 👌 👍 .Excellent movie . Very interesting actors were very calm and peaceful even throughout the competition.
Great movie and nobody dies!!! Great acting and story plot.
🤣🤣😂😂 exactly, lmaooo @ nobody dies. 😅
NOW EVERYONE NEEDS A PATTY CAKES PART 2
This is really a great Christmas movie. This is an inspiration especially to the family who are having disputes. Let's choice to be happy. Have a festive Christmas everyone.
I bypassed this movie a few times. I started watching it and then I would go to something else. Today, I finally finished watching it and I’m so glad I did. Family, food, and memories. ❤❤❤
VERY BEAUTIFUL MOVIE SHOWING IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY LOVE UNDERSTANDING SUPPORT TO EACH OTHER. THE LOVE OF PARENTS TO CHILDREN AND LOVE RESPECT OF CHILDREN TO PARENTS MATTERS A LOT. GREAT FAMILY VALUE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS KIND OF INSPIRING MOVIE.
A believable family movie, not just a Christmas story. Very sweet and enjoyable.
Be brave, your heart will lead you the way, to a new version of yourself, full of love and light, finally you recognise the illusion of negative patterns of the mind and you are moving forward with great inner peace, much love to all of you 🙏✨❤️
What a wonderful comment 💕💕
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Beautiful
What a beautiful movie. Enjoyed it very much.
This was such a wonderful and joyous movie. Thank you.
An amazing family fun movie.A credit and an inspiration to show that great supporting family can pull together.
Family is beautiful but a family that lean on each other is everything. Merry Christmas y'all
I think this is one of the best Christmas movies I’ve watched in a while❤️.
This is such a beautiful movie. Truly a family Christmas movie.
I love it💯. Thank you to all those who made this movie possible. There's nothing as good as having a family ❤......it's one of the things money cannot buy. Thank you for helping us visualize 👀 this👍👍👍👍
Well said & true. Happy 😊 holidays & a blessed Christmas 🎄 💖 ✨ ❤!!!!
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This is goodfamilytogher me ans a lot
Beautiful Christmas movie,, one of the best. God bless..
I will definitely keep this wonderful movie in my file. I've seen it years ago and am so glad to be watching it again. ❤️
That's just the thing.
You said it was out there years ago & I'm a movie collector. Yet I'm just now hearing or seeing about this great black family film 🎥.
Seems like some one decided we all just want the brutal, violent, sexual, negative drama filled typed movies cause we're black.
There's a big audience for these good hearted movies with black folks as the many or the most main characters that plenty of us love more or just as much as any other type ❤ 💕 💗 of black oriented movies 🎬.
Hope to see more of this kind!!!!❤
Happy Holidays & a 😊 Joyous. Blessed christmas 🎄 🙏 💓 ❤ ❤!!!!!!!
@@amarieneal7233 Original air date November 29, 2019.
No weapons formed against the shall prosper in the fathers name amin 🙏
I am loving the Christmas movies. Thank you.
Nothing like a good Christmas movie
True❤️🎄. I usually wait until after Thanksgiving to start watching but I’ve already watched about 8.
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Sweet family story. Refreshing.
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I love the way this family was connected
I don’t know who wrote this, but this is a movie I love this is what I told my grandkids is a Grammy movie
What a wonderful picture. Wow. Reminded me of the warmth of a Preacher's Wife. Happy Holidays.
Not sure how many times I've watched this movie, and it's worth it! Smile
Aww, thank you so so much for uploading this wonderful movie for us. I appreciate it and I hope this coming year is filled with love, health , peace, and joy for you and yours XXXOOO
This black movie was really enjoyable from start to finish.
This was a well written movie. So glad to see more faces in wonderful, classic movies.
I love watching Christmas movies, just keep me in a good mood 👍
This movie had me so emotional! So relatable! Love it🔥🔥
Beautiful wholesome Christmas movie. Thank you OWN. Family is everything ❤
Woooh this was an awesome movie at some point my eyes were filled with tears these is the kind of love we deserve for each other as a family
Totally enjoyed the christmas movies you are uploading, please aunty O & team; post some more so I can binge over the holidays..
Wonderful movie! Happily Ever Afters for everybody! Great Family movie, thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed this one. Not the same old story. Such a good story of family & love at Christmas. Thanks for sharing.
I loved watching this movie 2 years ago and I'm watching it again right now. Thanks for sharing.
So much love, positive energy...family is everything without drama ofcourse 😍 I enjoyed this movie
Well life always has some form of drama & challenges as they movie did but it was done in a big toxic. Hateful, abusive, dysfunctional way that so much media & shows are doing now.
The older generation usually brings more calm & respect 🙏 that the family has to follow mostly.
That's still needed today. But many families live in separate states or cities.
Absolutely beautiful, just the way family should be.
WHAT A GREAT FEEL GOOD MOVIE with an INTELLIGENT SUCCESSFUL Black family :-)
Excellent movie. Family is the key to everything
This is soo awesome!! Thank you for this. Happy tears!!
Very good movie.
OWN, should continue to make these movies, and start making Christmas movies for other ethnic groups who also haven't been traditionally seen on any screen. It would be so nice if OWN, could do that for other groups of kids, and families, so that they also could see themselves on the screen, especially at Christmas time, again very good movie.❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉
Loved this movie, we need more movies like this very positive
What a wonderful family Christmas movie.❤❤❤
This is a very good family movie, so inspiring...love it.
THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL MOVIE. SO MOVING & SHOWS HOW WE SHOULD ALWAYS WORK TOGETHER AS A FAMILY 🥰🥰
I love it so much beautiful
Absolutely beautiful everything about this movie shows nothing but love for family and how they can pull together and get things family is important and we all should pitch in to help each other no matter what to the writer thank you for the positive message producers directors actresses and actors great cast great work great job thanks for the movie happy holidays peace and love
You know, It just feels sooo good smiling at a Christmastime movie that has your OWN TALENTED BlACK BEAUTIFUL WOMEN and BLACK HANDSOME MEN
👑👑 AESOME! AWESOME!👑👑
The character playing Michael, his family and I are members of the same church.His name is Yohance Myles. He's a very talented actor.
He's also very handsome