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Before I finished my thought, the storyteller made one last comment. Something about Christmas being the way God wrapped up a love gift and sent him from heaven.

The gift of God. A baby Savior. The Savior who made it possible for loved ones to walk on streets of gold.

At home I found a pair of small doll shoes. After coating them with gold glitter and clear paint, I mounted them onto a mahogany plaque. With a burst of energy, I shuffled through a drawer to find my calligraphy pen and a piece of gold parchment. My hands trembled as I wrote: Departed to Walk on Streets of Gold. After gluing the parchment to the wood, I smiled at the finished project.

On Christmas Mom's face bright-ened when she unwrapped the gold shoes and my handwritten explanation. Even though the season still held sadness, the days brought joy as we talked about Pa plodding down gold pavement. I knew the Lord would guide Mother and me as we began taking steps in a healing direction.

A Christian Reader original article.

In early December, I was putting the finishing touches on an invitation to my parents for the Christmas holidays. My four-year-old son Philip was busily "writing a letter" to Grandma and Grandpa to send along.

After painstaking effort, he handed the sheet to me and said, "Read me my letter, Mommy."

I looked at the scribbles and swirls and began, "Dear Grandpa and Grandma. We are so happy you are coming for Christmas. You don't even need to bring us presents. We'll be happy if you just bring yourselves."

The look of surprise on Philip's face almost made me laugh out loud. "Did I really write that?" he asked.

"That's what it looked like to me," I replied.

Immediately, Philip grabbed the note and with a sigh of relief said, "I'm sure glad we didn't mail that!"

—Joyce Nash

1998 by the author or Christianity Today International/Today's Christian magazine (formerly Christian Reader).
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