As noted in the 91st Psalm, “God commands his angels to guard you wherever you go.”

Julia’s Gift

A heartwarming story

 is an extraordinary story about the power of Divine Providence and Divine Intervention as demonstrated through the beautifully inspired acts of one quiet and unassuming man, Patch Holland.

Julia Holland believes her husband, Patch, is Heaven’s envoy—an angel among us—through whom God works to impact and protect the lives of every-day men and women.

She believes Patch was selected to do God’s bidding as an orphan in Western New York in November 1963 on the day John F. Kennedy died.

On the spur of the moment, Lockwood McGuire—a freelance journalist and five-time Pulitzer Prize winner—travels to Hollyoak, Indiana, to cover a story for America Today,

 the popular podcast managed by his wife, Biddy Hannah. The story he is sent to cover is about America’s last day in the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975.

Fifty years to the day, April 30, 2025, McGuire arrives in Hollyoak, to report Patch’s historical perspective. Patch, a Marine, helped South Vietnamese citizens board the last freedom flight from the American Embassy on that fateful day in 1975. Lock’s report is a rousing success.

While in Hollyoak, Patch asks Lockwood for a secret favor. He wants McGuire to produce a book in six weeks for a family reunion in June, probably the last his family will ever have with Julia, the matriarch of the Holland family.

Julia is dying of cancer, and she wants her children and grandchildren to have the book—a legacy gift—that exposes Patch’s divine exploits. Her family knows nothing about Patch’s good deeds, and Julia wants them to know the full story before cancer ends her life.

After listening to Patch’s request and perspective, McGuire agrees to write the book. McGuire, at a crossroads as an investigative journalist, views Holland’s assignment as a way to prove to himself that he still has worth as a reporter.

The result for Julia, and readers, is a book of astonishing stories that detail Patch’s extraordinary life.

Julia’s Gift is a memorable and concise story that demonstrates on one man can impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. This is a story that holds a secret surprise on its last page

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