Golden Box of Kisses

What a story to inspire your day. Thank you Khalil. I love this story so much!


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 for him and he became even more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box and placed it 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... Merry Christmas". The father was embarrassed by his earlier over reaction, but his anger flared when he found the box was empty. He spoke to her a harsh manner “Don’t you know young lady, when you give someone a present there’s suppose 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 became 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 that child only a short time later and it is told that the father kept the golden 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 and imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it in there.

In a real sense, each of us as human beings have been given a golden box filled with unconditional love and kissed from our children, family, friends and God. There is no more precious possession anyone could ever hold.