Some time ago, a man punished his 5-year-old 
daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold 
wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became 
even more upset when the child pasted the gold 
paper so as to decorate a box to put under the 
Christmas tree. 

Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift 
to her father the next morning and said, "This 
is for you, Daddy." The father was embarrassed 
by his earlier overreaction, but his anger 
flared again when he found the box was empty. 
He spoke to her in such a harsh manner; "Don't 
you know, young lady, when you give someone a 
present there's supposed to be something inside 
the package?" The little girl looked up at him 
with tears in her eyes and said: Daddy, it's not 
empty. I blew kisses into it until is was full." 
The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and 
put his arms around his little girl, and he begged 
her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger. 

An accident took the life of the child only a 
short time later and it is told that the father 
kept that gold box by his bed for all the years 
of his life. And whenever he was discouraged or 
faced difficult problems he would open the box 
and take out an imaginary kiss and remember 
the love of the child who had put it there.