Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.
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.
But when he opened it, 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 tears rolling from her eyes and said: "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.
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An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept that 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 as human beings have 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.
相关单词：Flared
Flared解释：adj. 端部张开的, 爆发的, 加宽的, 漏斗式的 动词flare的过去式和过去分词
Flared例句：
The match flared and went out. 火柴闪亮了一下就熄了。
The fire flared up when we thought it was out. 我们以为火已经熄灭，但它突然又燃烧起来。
相关单词：harshly
harshly解释：ad.严厉地；苛刻地
harshly例句：
The grit beneath her soles grated harshly on the wooden deck. 粘在她鞋底的沙砾蹭在木甲板上发出刺耳的声音。
We should not judge the young writers too harshly. 我们不应当对青年作家太苛求。
相关单词：crushed
crushed解释：a.压碎的，倒碎的
crushed例句：
The car was completely crushed under the truck. 小轿车被卡车压得完全变形了。
The box was crushed when the car ran over it. 汽车辗过箱子时把它给压碎了。
相关单词：imaginary
imaginary解释：adj.想象中的，假想的，虚构的，幻想的；虚数的
imaginary例句：
All the characters in this book are imaginary.此书中的所有人物都是虚构的。
The boy's fears were only imaginary.这小孩的恐惧只是一种想象。
相关单词：invisible
invisible解释：adj.看不见的，无形的
invisible例句：
The air is full of millions of invisible germs.空气中充满了许多看不见的细菌。
Many stars are invisible without a telescope.许多星辰不用望远镜便看不见。
相关单词：unconditional
unconditional解释：adj.无条件的，无限制的，绝对的
unconditional例句：
The victorious army demanded unconditional surrender.胜方要求敌人无条件投降。
My love for all my children is unconditional.我对自己所有孩子的爱都是无条件的。
