A Box Full of Kisses

    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.

    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.

    「中文譯文」：

    這個故事說的是以前，一個男人懲罰了他三歲的女兒，因為她浪費了一卷金泊包裝紙。家里經(jīng)濟(jì)困難，當(dāng)他知道女兒包了一個盒子放在圣誕樹下時，他簡直怒氣沖天。但第二天，女兒把禮物拿到他面前說“爸爸，這是給你的。”

    爸爸為前一天晚上的舉動而感到羞愧難當(dāng)，但當(dāng)他發(fā)現(xiàn)盒子里什么都沒裝時，他再一次暴怒，對著女兒大吼道“難道你不知道當(dāng)你送禮物給別人時，你要放東西進(jìn)去嗎？”女兒抬起臉望著他，眼眶里滿是淚水，邊哭邊說：“哦，爸爸。那不是空盒子。我飛了好多好多個親吻進(jìn)去，都是給你的。”

    爸爸驚呆了，他擁抱著女兒，祈求她的原諒。

    不久以后，女兒在一次事故中喪生。爸爸一直把那個金盒子放在床畔，放了很多很多年。每當(dāng)他心情沮喪時，他就會拿出一個想象中的親吻，想念著那個將吻吹進(jìn)盒子的孩子給他的愛。

    我們每一個人都有一個金罐子，里面裝滿了無條件的愛和吻，有孩子的，有家人的，還有朋友的。沒有人可以擁有比這更加珍貴的財產(chǎn)。