The Angel

In a soot-streaked nineteenth-century city, Abel, a crippled orphan, coaxes blooms from ash and broken brick, trading petals for kindness and hope. Across a century, Zach, a clear-eyed twelve-year-old in the modern Northwest, asks for one more spring, chasing light through the world’s great gardens with the parents who love him.

When illness draws each child toward the hush between heartbeats, something luminous leans close. The veil thins; wings stir; and flowers—ordinary and impossible—become a language of mercy that can be carried from one world to the next.

Bound by beauty and a promise that no child crosses alone, Abel and Zach find their paths entwined in a tender work that outlives them: gathering the earth’s blossoms for a place where nothing fades, and learning how love returns—again and again—as guidance for someone still afraid of the dark.

Lyrical and compassionate, The Angel: A Tribute to “The Dying Child” honors Hans Christian Andersen while reimagining his grace for our time—where doubt meets faith, grief becomes service, and small hands bear immeasurable light.

If an angel came for you, what would you carry into forever? Read The Angel today and let its pages place a flower in your hands.