This poem describes God giving a person two boxes, one gold for joys and one black for sorrows. Though the gold box grew heavier with joys each day, the black box remained light because the sorrows fell through a hole in the bottom. God explains that the gold box is for counting blessings, while the black box allows the person to let go of sorrows, which are with God. The poem encourages thinking of family and friends as blessings and passing on messages of friendship to brighten others' days.

1. 'Life may not be the party we hoped for...
but while we are here we might as well dance!'

2. God's Boxes

3. I have in my hands
two boxes,
which God gave
me to hold.

4. He said, "Put all your
sorrows in the black box,
and all your joys
in the gold."

5. 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.

6. With curiosity, I
opened the black,
I wanted to find out
why,
and I saw, in the
base of the box, a
hole,
which my sorrows
had fallen out by.

7. 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...”

8. 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.”

9. We should consider all
of our family and friends
a blessing.
Send this to family &
friends today just to let
them know you
are thinking of them and
that they are a joy in
your life.

10. A ball is a circle, no
beginning, no end.
It keeps us together like
our Circle of Friends.
Today I pass the
friendship ball to you.
Pass it on to someone
who is family or friend
to you to brighten their
day ...

11. To you my friend.

12. God bless you.