...white hot love

...hello dear readers!

I hope your Christmas celebrations were most lovely!

~ for this weeks White Wednesday post,

I thought about sharing a glimpse of our happy family weekend!
It truely was all sooo very joyous,
from the sugar cookie baking day,
to the candle light service night,
and of course
opening those "dirty stockings"
LOL!!

  

but instead,
my heart lead me in another direction...

I wish to share this very special gift that I 

was given m-a-n-y years ago from my most wise, beloved mother...

it is something that attached to my heart
from the moment I read it,

and has inspired me to live my life with this mantra:

Good is NOW!!!

and that there is absolutely

 NOTHING

on God's green earth that means more than this kind of LOVE!

unconditional

white hot

love!! 

It is my gift to you today,

may this little story find favor in your hearts...

~

“Gold Wrapping Paper”

 

  

The story goes

 that some time ago a mother punished her five 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 then 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, friends. There is no more precious possession anyone could ever ask for.

 

 

I continue to seek...
 and give
 this kind of love!!

~

Sharing this very special gift over at Kathleen's
~ White Wednesday ~

here's to gifts that simply can not be bought!