Gold Box

christmascactus Jan 10, 2003

This may not be the right forum to post this-but it does say Brug. & friends-so this is for my brug. friends:
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 saying,"This is for you,Daddy."The father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction,but his anger flared again when he found the box 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"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 the little girl,and he begged her to forgive him for his unnecessaty 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 sense,each of us as humans beings have been given a golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children,family,friends,and God.
All of you are my gold box and thanks for being a friend.
Colie

This message was edited Friday, Jan 10th 2:30 PM