Things I am sure of:
#1 Any gift, and I mean any gift, can be wrapped poorly.
#2 Scales at the DMV would reduce our obesity problem. It is hard to lie on your taxes and there are penalties for it. Lie when they ask your weight and there are no consequences. Make folks climb on a scale to get their license and we would have fewer drivers or fewer fat people. Either one is good.
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Yes, any gift, and I mean any gift, can be wrapped poorly, but we really shouldn’t care about the outside – it’s what is inside that matters…
ReplyDeleteA mother punished her 5 year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and the child used the gold paper to poorly wrap a box.
She said, "This is for you, Momma."
The mother’s anger flared 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.