Two Boxes………..

I came across this beautiful poem on TWO BOXES and it reads like this:

I have in my hands two boxes

Which God gave me to hold.

He said, ‘Put all your sorrows in the black box,

And all your joys in the gold.’

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes

Both my joys and sorrows I stored

But though the gold became heavier each day

The black was as light as before.

With curiosity, I opened the black box

Cause I wanted to find out why

And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole

From which my sorrows had fallen out

I showed the hole to God, and mused,

‘I wonder where my sorrows could be!’

He smiled a gentle smile and said,

‘My child, they’re all here with me….’

I asked God, why He gave me the boxes,

Why the gold and the black with the hole?

‘My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings,

The black is for you to let go.’

We must consider our family and friends

As a blessing and just to let them know

That they are a joy in your life

And you are always thinking of them

A treasure that is granted by God to me.………