The Box
The story goes that some time ago a man punished his
5-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive
gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became
even more upset when the child pasted the gold paper
so as to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her
father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."
The father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction,
but his anger flared again when he found the box was empty.
He spoke to her in a harsh manner, "Don't you know, young
lady, when you give someone a present there's supposed
to be something inside the package?"
The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes
and said, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into
it until it was full." The father was crushed. He fell
on his knees and put his arms around His little girl, and
he begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.
An unfortunate accident took the life of the child only
a short time later and it is told that the father kept
that gold box by his bed for all the years of his life.
And whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems
he would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss
and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have
been given a golden box filled with unconditional love
and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.
There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
YOU now have two choices ... you can:
1. Pass this on to your friends, or
2. Close it and act like it didn't touch your heart.
As you can see, I took choice No. 1.
Friends are like angels who lift us to our feet when
our wings have trouble remembering how to fly!
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