The Naming of a Star
Excerpt taken from “A
Mountain to Climb”
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By John W. Vander Velden
As Mathew Borton looked toward his
son, Daniel, he could see questions in the boy’s eyes, and knew they were
questions he was not yet ready to answer.
Mathew feared the questions…feared the memories they would conjure…the
pain they would bring. But Daniel did
not ask. Perhaps the boy knew there were
places his father would not go. Even
that did not relieve Mathew as the memories flooded his mind and once again broke
his heart. So he lay in the dark looking
toward the bright diamonds above…and Mathew wondered. Wondered what kind of father he really
was. Joseph Borton was a good
father…only a good father would walk across the fields late at night to check
on his son camping with his friend.
Staring into the heavens Mathew tried his best to pick out a star
brighter than any other. The task
suddenly possessed him. He had to pick
out the brightest…the best…and finding it Mathew would choose for it a name…and
that name would be Joseph Daniel Borton.
Mathew would remember where that bright pure light could be found in the
night sky. Then any night the stars
filled the night sky, he could see that star…the star named after his father.
(209 Words)
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