Fans of Claudia Mills may remember her book One Small Lost Sheep. The story is about a shepherd boy named Benjamin. Perhaps this is why Ben and I chose the shepherd’s crook to sew and decorate. Ben and I made the shepherd’s crook that hangs on St. Paul’s Chrismon tree.
Ben wanted to decorate it with seashells. At two, he was fascinated with seashells and rocks and what lived under and inside them. Janelle Beaber had provided plenty of gold seashell trimmings for the Chrismons we were making, so I covered Ben’s Chrismon with gold shell shapes—a little incongruous, perhaps.
Every year when we hang the Chrismons at St. Paul’s, Ben and I look for his seashell-covered shepherd’s crook. That is the ornament we want to put on the tree. I doubt that Ben remembers sewing it (he did two stitches) or stuffing it, but he knows that we made it together.
What St. Paul’s is for us today—we made it together.
—Rebecca Glancy
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