The Gold Wrapping Paper - An Inspirational Short Christmas Story
Once
upon a time, there was a man who worked very hard just to keep food on
the table for his family. This particular year a few days before
Christmas, he punished his little five-year-old daughter after learning
that she had used up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping
paper.
As
money was tight, he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve he
saw that the child had used all of the expensive gold paper to decorate
one shoebox she had put under the Christmas tree. He also was concerned
about where she had gotten money to buy what was in the shoebox.
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 has 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.
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