Nathan is 8 and his Mom is dying from ovarian cancer. Nathan knows his Mom will be going to live with Jesus soon. He wants to give his Mom a very special Christmas present. Nathan wants his Mom to have pretty shoes to meet Jesus in.

Robert is a busy lawyer. In fact he’s so busy he has no time for his family. He works really long hours and feels he’s giving everything he possibly can to them. What he doesn’t give them is himself. His wife has told him after the holidays she’s through with their marriage.

Then Christmas Eve as usual he had worked until too late and found the only store still open and mindlessly started shopping. When he was ready to checkout there was a little boy in front of him with sparkly green and red shoes. The shoes were $14.25 and the Nathan only had $4. He asked the clerk if he could bring the rest of the money tomorrow but was told no. He turned to the man behind him and told him his Mom had been sick for a long time and that he had to get her those shoes to meet Jesus in when she goes to heaven. At first Robert was annoyed suspecting the boy to be preying upon a rich man with money. But something happened that changed his heart at that very minute. He gave the boy the money, left his purchases at the checkout stand and went home to start giving himself to his family.

Read this book to find out how the rest of Nathan and Roberts lives turned out.

Review done by:

Gay Cocherell, Media Assistant