The story goes that some time ago,
a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for
wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper.
Money was tight and he became infuriated when the
child tried to decorate a box to put
under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little
girl brought the gift to her father the next
morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy."
He was embarrassed by his earlier
overreaction, but his anger flared again when he
found the box was empty. He yelled at her,
"Don't you know when you give someone a
present, there's supposed to be something inside it?"
The little girl looked up at him with tears in her
eyes and said, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty, I blew
kisses into the box. All for you, Daddy." The father
was crushed.He put his arms around his little girl,
and he begged for her forgiveness.
An accident took the life of the child only a short
time later.
It is told that the man kept that gold box by
his bed for many years, and whenever he was
discouraged, he would 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 humans
have been given a gold container filled with
unconditional love and kisses from our children, friends,
family, or God.