Sweet Merciful Christmas — Donald S. Smurthwaite

1933 has been a dire year for the nation’s farms—after a growing season without rain, the money is drying up too. With the holidays quickly approaching and a pocketful of past-due bills, farmer Scrappy Borroughs feels no familiar glimmer of joy in the upcoming Christmas season. The bank is calling in his debt, and now he faces losing everything he’s worked so hard to build. But Scrappy is about to learn an important lesson: even amid life’s most difficult trials, mercy can be granted in the most unexpected of ways.