"Let The Star Guide Me"

On a beautiful day like today, the sparrows chirping gaily for the seed lying on the lawn near the porch. A favorite place for my mother to sit knitting scarves for the orphan children, to be handed out on Christmas day! “The day I will never forget.”

Her anniversary day, the heart attack on the porch with dad screaming for help; while I limped down the hall to find a phone to call our doctor, the neighbor next door.
“Harry! I’m so sorry. It’s a heart attack and your dear Alice has passed away.”
“O Bill! Please try again and save her, to be with me and my boy once more.

No Christmas tree this Christmas day, the candle standing there with the wick staring at me, waiting for the flowers to place upon her grave, with memories to say! “Mom do you remember me in tears, you’re one and only son a cripple crying, trying to hold you.”

I can still hear the words as if it were yesterday. A twelve year old child, too afraid to go to school on my own, with the children always teasing me as I shuffle to the classroom, waiting for my teacher to save me from the taunts! “Jimmy the clown falling down.”

Now ashamed, trying to hide my fear to say! “Dad I’m sorry.” Him sitting in his den, wasted away in a maze crying in a bottle of broken dreams! “He boy look at you, it’s your fault. Mom was too frail to bare a cripple, but she had to for you to be alive.”

My life crumbled around me that day, not knowing why I feared to stay for a better day, knowing it would never come. I hid in my room until he fell asleep, then packed a bag to make my way down the road, to find the orphanage with the children who remembered me to be the son of the kind lady, giving them scarves for Christmas.

There to find my faith in her dreams, to return to my father and ask for forgiveness.
Now reunited as a family, with a promise to celebrate Christmas with the orphans, to find their presents under the tree with a note!

” I’m Alice the Angel Star to love you, for saving my Son.”

Miracles do come true for a boy like me and Peggy Sue, my best friend, now the counselor from the orphanage. We were married in the local church five years ago, having proposed to her while visiting my Mom’s grave, to tell her of our love for each other.

A memory that still hurts me to know, she’s no longer here to meet my wife and our two beautiful children - Harry and Alice.

“A gift from Jesus on Christmas day, to let the star guide me in my life. That I may bring joy and happiness to orphans and abused children, waiting for a family of their own.”

The best present an orphan child could ever have.


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