Love's Abiding Joy is a 2006 made-for-television Christian drama film based on a series of books by Janette Oke.

Between drought and a cattle plague, Missie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell) takes up a teaching position to help support her husband Willie (Logan Bartholomew) and their two children.

In spite of the need for money, Willie turns down mayor, businessman, and land baron Samuel Doros (John Laughlin) when he offers him a job as sheriff.

Although it means that Willie and Missie hardly ever see each other, Willie realizes that they are in desperate need for money, and that the loss of Missie's teaching income will not leave them with enough, so he accepts Sam Doros's original offer as sheriff, leaving the ranch in the hands of his ranch hand Scottie and adopted son, Jeff (Drew Tyler Bell).

Willie goes into the barn after saying that he doesn't know what to pray for, and finds that he is able to cry for the first time since Kathy's death, and asks God to help him not have to evict Henry and Melinda from their land.

Missie puts together her most expensive possessions, including the locket her mother gave her, and sells them to produce the $15 that the Kleins need to stay on their land.

Colette invites him inside her father's house to show him the library of her dead mother, who "lived to read books".

She wants to give him Romeo and Juliet, but Doros butts in and insensibly declares that the book is "too fragile to be let out," because he doesn't approve of Jeff for his daughter.