The Silver Coin started on an evening walk.
My daughter and I pray together every morning and every night, and we do Bible studies together. She knows her Bible remarkably well. But it's on our evening walks that she really opens up, and on one of those walks she told me something that stopped me in my tracks. Intellectually, she said, she's all there. She was just missing the connection in her heart.
I wanted to lecture. I'm a dad; it's the factory setting. Instead I went home and started writing her a story, about a girl named Millie, a relentlessly kind new friend named Grace who refuses to give up on her no matter how many times she's pushed away, and a small silver coin with YES on one side and NO on the other. I wrote it hoping that somewhere in that story she would catch a glimpse of how deeply she is loved, and that what she already knew in her head would finally make the trip to her heart. Who Grace really is, I leave for every reader to discover. My daughter knows.
When the book was finished, she and I decided the coin shouldn't stay fictional. So we designed it for real: 40 mm across with a satisfying weight in your hand, double coated in silver for a deep and lasting shine, ornate scrollwork, and the YES and NO cut deep with a mirror polish. A coin custom designed and minted for the book, and for anyone who wants a reminder to make good choices.
What you'll find in this shop is that coin, the book that gave it meaning, and the two together as a gift set. Everything here exists to put something real in a young person's hand for the moments when a choice gets hard. Take it out of your pocket. Look at it. And remember that the choice is yours to make.
I write and run this little shop from Kelowna, British Columbia, where I live with my daughter, who still gets the first copy of everything.
Choose well.