It's said that we have a choice to make. I've chosen. Now it's your turn to
choose. 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, "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 his 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 and
friends. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

good story don....