From Scouts-L@tcu.edu Wed Oct 22 15:36:18 1997 Return-Path: Scouts-L@tcu.edu Received: from outbound.Princeton.EDU (outbound.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.84]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA23580; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:36:18 -0400 Received: from lightpost by outbound.Princeton.EDU with SMTP id <543688-27667>; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:16:36 -0400 Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU (pucc.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.99]) by outbound.Princeton.EDU (8.8.0/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA01186; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@TCUBVM) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2971; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:04:29 -0400 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4453; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:59:36 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 4355 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:58:49 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4354; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:55:27 -0500 Approved-By: EIDSON@TCUBVM Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2203; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:45:03 -0500 Received: from mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 21 Oct 97 20:45:01 CDT Received: from LOCALNAME ([12.70.40.217]) by mtigwc04.worldnet.att.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0613 ) with SMTP id AAB10683; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:43:02 +0000 X-Sender: llmcgraw@postoffice.worldnet.att.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <19971022014232.AAB10683@LOCALNAME> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 01:43:02 +0000 Reply-To: Lorie McGraw Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: Lorie McGraw Subject: Scoutmaster's Minute: The Gold Box To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L Status: RO X-Status: Some time ago a friend of mine punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put it under their Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you daddy." He was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found that the box was empty. He yelled at her, "Don't you know that when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside of it?" The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said, "Oh daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you Daddy." The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and again begged her forgiveness. My friend told me that he kept that gold box by his bed for years. Whenever he was discouraged, he would 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 parents has been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children. No more precious possession could anyone hold... Author unknown.