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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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