The Christmas Box
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 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 and GOD. There is no more precious
possession anyone could hold.
from..... wepraisehim.com
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