Gold Wrapping Paper, Parents Read This!


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Gold Wrapping Paper

The story goes that some time ago a mother punished her 5 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 said, "This is for you, Momma."

The mother was embarrassed by her earlier over reaction, 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, and friends. There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

What a tear jerker! Cant wait to hug my daughter tonight! I got this in an email from my mother.

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Re: Gold Wrapping Paper, Parents Read This!

ok man you can't be doin this kind of thing this early in the morning, good lord I got a reputation here. No kiding tear jerker, thanks for sharing, just wish there were no witnesses in my office. LOL

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Re: Gold Wrapping Paper, Parents Read This!

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What a tear jerker! Cant wait to hug my daughter tonight! I got this in an email from my mother.

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Your comment at the end made it! Great story!

So true...so true: I am 30 years old, and still hold near to my heart (without their knowing) a letter that both my mom and dad wrote to me 15 years ago......Man, I get teary just thinking of it! IF only they knew I still had it! Great story!

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