happy holidays . . .
welp, i guess everyones doing it . . . so i might as well wish you all a very merry happy holiday(s), hope your all enjoying it somewhat, and are pleased with what you do receive. but i fear that sometimes we do take things for granted, and forget the simple things in life . . . so while you unwrap that gift you wish you'd have never gotten . . . or wonder about things you should've gotten, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ THIS: behind the cut so i don't pawn your pages.
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.
*Shrugs* if that don't touch you . . . or that don't captivate your heart in some way shape or form . . . i feel sorry for you. so take a look at those presents one last time, and hopefully in a new light and be appreciative . . . enjoy the time with your family, and those you love.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOLKZ
*sidenote* be more amusing to see how many people actually read this *Shrugs*
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.
*Shrugs* if that don't touch you . . . or that don't captivate your heart in some way shape or form . . . i feel sorry for you. so take a look at those presents one last time, and hopefully in a new light and be appreciative . . . enjoy the time with your family, and those you love.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOLKZ
*sidenote* be more amusing to see how many people actually read this *Shrugs*