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.
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.
從前,一位父親懲罰了自己5歲的女兒,因?yàn)樗霉饬思依飪H有的一卷昂貴的金色包裝紙。家中余錢無多，在圣誕前夜來臨時(shí)，父親變得更加心煩意亂，他看到了圣誕樹下的一個(gè)鞋盒，女兒原來把金紙貼在了這個(gè)鞋盒上做裝飾。
然而，圣誕日的早上，小女孩滿是興奮得把這個(gè)圣誕禮盒呈到了父親面前，說到：“爸爸，這個(gè)送給你！”
當(dāng)父親打開禮盒時(shí)，他為自己先前的過度反應(yīng)而局促不安著。
但是當(dāng)他打開盒子后，發(fā)現(xiàn)里面是空的，他的怒火再次爆發(fā)了。“你不知道嗎，小丫頭，”他嚴(yán)厲地說，“當(dāng)你送人禮物時(shí)，盒子里面應(yīng)該是有東西的！”
小女孩抬頭看著氣頭上的父親，淚水在她的眼眶中打圈：“爸爸，它不是空的。這里面裝滿了我的吻。”
男人頓時(shí)被擊垮了。他跪下雙膝，雙手環(huán)抱著自己珍愛的小女孩，祈求她的原諒。
之后不久，一場事故奪走了小女孩的生命。據(jù)說，父親便將那個(gè)小金盒子放在床頭，一直陪伴著他的余生。無論何時(shí)他感到氣餒或者遇到難辦的事情，他就會(huì)打開禮盒，取出一個(gè)假想的吻，記起漂亮女兒給予了自己特殊的愛。
從一個(gè)非常真實(shí)的意義上說，我們每個(gè)人都被贈(zèng)與過一個(gè)無形的金色禮盒，那里面裝滿了來自子女，家人，朋友及上帝無條件的愛與吻。
人們所能擁有的最珍貴的禮物莫過于此了。
