When I started writing the screenplay for My Manger , I had no idea I’d end up writing a children’s book. My goal was simple. I wanted to tell a story about rediscovering faith through surrender and about how God can use the smallest, most ordinary things to draw us back to Him. In the film, that “small thing” is a children’s book, delivered by a special, now older, author from the past of an old bookstore owner, Walter. It’s the one object that sparks Walter’s specific memor