The Littlest Angel Pin reminds me of a story I read long ago by Charles Tazewell.

 It was about a little four year old boy who had died and gone to heaven - he was the littlest angel there.  But he couldn't do anything right and he was sad and lonesome for his old home and friends.  One day the "Understanding angel" asked him what would make him most happy in Paradise.  The littlest angel thought for a moment and whispered in his ear.  "There's a box.  I left it under my bed back home.  If only I could l have that"  A messenger angel was sent at once to retrieve the treasured box.  The littlest angel was the happiest in all of Paradise.

Then it came to pass that Jesus was to be born and all the angels prepared gifts for the Blessed Infant.  The littlest angel was at a loss to know what to give the Christ child.  Finally, he brought out the little box he treasured so much and decided that would be his gift.  When the Day arrived, the littlest angel placed his gift before the Throne of God.  It was only a small, rough, unsightly box, but inside were all those wonderful things that even a Child of God would treasure.

When the littlest angel saw his gift among all those glorious gifts of radiant splendor and breathless beauty, he wanted to reclaim his shabby worthless gift.  But it was too late - the Hand of God moved slowly over all that bright array of shining gifts, then paused and dropped His hand on the lowly gift of the Littlest Angel.  Inside the box was a butterfly with golden wings, captured one bright summer day on the high hills above Jerusalem and a sky-blue egg from a bird's nest in the olive tree that stood to shade his mother's kitchen door.  There were two white stones found on a muddy river bank where he and his friends had played, and at the bottom of the box was a limp, tooth-marked leather strap once worn as a collar by his mongrel dog who had died as he had lived, in absolute love and infinite devotion.  The Littlest Angel wept because he though he had been most blasphemous.

Then, suddenly, the Voice of God spoke, saying "Of all the gifts of all the angels, I find that this small box pleases Me most.  Its contents are of the Earth and of men and My Son is born to be King of both.  These are the things My Son, too, will know and love and cherish and then, regretful, will leave behind Him when His task is done.

Then the little box began to glow with a brilliance so bright that it blinded the eyes of all the angels.  None but the Littlest Angel saw it rise from its place and stand and shed its light over the stable where the Christ Child was born.

There it shone on that Night of Miracles, and its light was reflected down the centuries deep in the heart of all mankind.  Yet, earthly eyes, blinded too, by its splendor, could never know that the lowly gift of the Littlest Angel was what all men would call forever "THE SHINING STAR OF BETHLEHEM".
 

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