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THE GOLD WRAPPING PAPER - An Inspiring Christmas Story
Once upon a time, a man punished his five-year-old daughter for using
up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper before Christmas.
Money was tight,
so he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child
had used the expensive gold paper to decorate a large shoebox she had put under the Christmas
tree.
Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement,
brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you,
Daddy!"
As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his
earlier overreaction, now regretting how he had punished her.
But when he opened the shoebox, he found it was empty and
again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady,” he said
harshly, “when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something
inside the package!"
The little girl looked up at him with sad tears rolling from her eyes and whispered:
"Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all
full."
The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his
arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for
his unnecessary anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told
that the father kept this little gold box by his bed for all the years of
his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems,
he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love
of this beautiful child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible
golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children,
family, friends and God.
There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
Note: For two other short, inspiring Christmas stories, click here and here.
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