The Gold Box....

"THE BOX"

The story goes that sometime ago a man punised 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 little girl pasted the gold paper. So as to decorated 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 oucrreaction, 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 gift there's supposed to be something inside the pakage?"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 untill it was full."The father was cruched. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his little girl, and he begged her to forgive him for his unnessary anger. An accident took the life of his little girl 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 with difficult problems he would open the box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the little girl who had put it in 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 out children, family, friends and God. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.