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Posts: 8,574I received this from a friend who had a choice to make. It said that I had a choice to make too.
I've chosen. Now it's your turn to choose.
The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her five year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and she became even more upset when the child used the gold paper to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift box to her mother the next morning and then said,
'This is for you, Momma.'
The mother was embarrassed by her earlier overreaction, but her anger flared again when she opened
the box and found it was empty. She spoke to her daughter 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?'
She had tears in her eyes and said, 'Oh, Momma, it's not empty! I blew kisses into it until it was full.'
The mother was crushed. She fell on her knees and put her arms around her little girl, and she begged her forgiveness for her thoughtless anger.
An accident took the life of the child only a short time later, and it is told that the mother kept that gold
box by her bed for all the years of her life.
Whenever she was discouraged or
faced difficult problems she 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 . There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.
Friends are like angels who lift us to our feet,
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
May you all feel like you have a very very full gold box. I know that I do.
YorkshireBeautiful words 
Hugs (sniff) Ali xxx 
FenBeary Folk lovely
Japhe's BearsAwwwwww that is lovely 
:hug:
Jigpaws
What wonderful words and a lovely way to remember what's really important in life :hug: :hug: :hug:
Thanks Dilu
Hugs
Janice
Patsy Lake Bears
