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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 said, 'This is for you, Daddy.' The father was embarrassed by his earlier over reaction, but his anger flared again when he found the box was 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, 'Oh, 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 this little girl, and he begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary 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 very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given a golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

oh!! anne, i can feel a tear:-))) sweet though lynnxx

Oh Anne...I shed a wee tear or two at that.....

Anne such a sad but heartwarming story. Dx

Lynn and Jill doesn't it make you appreciate what you have got? Annexx

Dave makes you stop and think - doesn't it? Annexx

Absolutely Anne!! I keep all sorts of things my kids make for me (as my mum did with my stuff) Mum still takes her collection out and looks at it sometimes and I know I will do the same...

i does anne, just shouted at the kids, for not going to sleep, now going back up to kiss them good night. lynnxx

Ah Lynne that's nice! Annexx

OOOOhhhh.....that really got me. Stel.xx

me's back. i have kept all my daughters birthday cards, drawings, school books(jotters), and bits 'n'bobs. now i keep everything of the twins too. my mother never kept anything of mines, shame really, could of shown my kids how awful i did at school, thats why they should value things, including education. lynnxx

nudging cos I think it's nice

I wish I could go back and 'enjoy' some of our son's childhood better, I was so busy trying to work and make ends meet (hubbie made redundant early in life, more than once) that I forgot to 'stop' sometimes and savour the moment. Lily