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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Empty Box</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This I will not put into my normal rhyme and verse, for it is a story of <br>Faith and hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> The empty box</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I felt empty inside, as the greatest gift had been taken away.<br>Like an empty Christmas box with all the ribbons and bows<br>On the outside showing all its beauties, but no one<br>Knew that the box was empty inside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What happened? Who took out that gift? <br>Was it supposed to be temporary<br>For it was something that I truly missed.<br>What is the purpose of a beautiful decorated box<br>If there is nothing inside, to show the depth<br>and meaning of its wrappings.<br>Had I taken out the gift? Or misplaced or given it away? <br>I did not know! <br>An empty box is like a universe without its stars<br>Or sun or moon. Void and dark.<br>I felt like a floating object in space with no<br>Beginning and no end.<br>I still had my mind active and working.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I decided to back track to the times before this<br>And what could have happened.<br>I had an untimely death of a family member<br>Then I was laid off from work.<br>I didn’t have enough money to make<br>My car or mortgage payments, and to top it off<br>I wound up with a severe cold.<br>That was when I turned angrily and blamed god <br>For all my misfortunes.<br>But by doing this - I became empty inside<br>With no emotions, I then realized that this<br>Is one of many misfortunes to come to test my faith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knelt down on my knees and prayed for forgiveness<br>For allowing myself to weaken.<br>I then recalled the poem - “ footprints in the sand”<br>And I felt my heart start to fill up again.<br>For I knew that in my weakest hours<br>God would carry me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now! That Christmas gift was replenished<br>And filled the emptiness with the most beautiful gift<br>This world could ever know.<br>FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE.<br>I knew things would work out for me<br>If I just gave god my problems to take care of.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if you see an empty gift box! <br>It is not really empty, for it contains<br>GODS LOVE FOR ALL HIS CHILDREN.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+Rams">Louis Rams</a><div class=q>
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 The empty box

I felt empty inside, as the greatest gift had been taken away.
Like an empty Christmas box with all the ribbons and bows
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