There was a king who had a big box. It was made of glass. It was ________. It looked empty ________ you could always take out anything you wanted. There was only one thing you had to ________. Whenever you took something out of it, you ________ put something else back in although nobody knew ________.

One day some thieves broke into the palace and ________ the box. “Now we can have ________ we want,” they said. One of the thieves said, “I want a bag of gold,” and he opened the box and got it. The other two did the same and got exactly what they wanted. The thieves ________ one thing. No one of them put anything back in the box. So they couldn’t take anything out of the box again.

This went on ________ months. At last, the leader of the thieves could stand it no longer. He took a hammer and smashed (砸碎) the glass box into pieces, and then all three thieves fell down ________.

When the king returned home, he ordered his soldiers to ________ the box. When they brought it and the ________ dead thieves to the king, he said, “If those thieves had only put something back into the box, they would be alive.”

The king ordered soldiers to ________ all the pieces of glass and made them into a globe with all the countries of the world upon it. It will ________ himself and others: to give back something in return when you get something ________ others.

So everyone, if you get something from others next time, don’t forget to give back in return.

Today, I sent my daughter to have a piano lesson at Youth Move. I had about an hour before she needed _____, so I decided to have lunch at the nearby restaurant. On my way inside, I looked to my left and _____ a nice elderly couple collecting the rubbish on the sidewalk. They seemed to be in bad health. I thought I should get some bottles of water to them.

When I bought the water back, her husband _____, so I brought the water to the woman who was named Jenifer. She was very thankful for the water with a _____. As I left, I smiled back at her and walked to the nearby _____ for killing the time, only a few short steps away.

_____ I left the library, I offered Jenifer a hug, I thanked her for her kindness in cleaning up the rubbish left by other people. She seemed _____. “We have volunteered to clean up rubbish for many years. It’s out duty to keep the city clean!” She told me. I walked to my car. Feeling thankful for the moment when her spirit _____ me deeply. I hope to see her again, _____, she and her husband will become well.

I am grateful for the wonderful day it has been. There have been some nice moments in our life. I continue to pay attention to and _____ them. Our eyes are blind to kindness, but actually it is everywhere.

“Well, we could use some hotdogs.” I heard this when I was at the local charity _______ bank. A second-hand shop was next to it. Sometimes I would stop and go into the shop to _______ a sweatshirt or a book for my sons. Sometimes I would _______ step back into the food bank and ask if they needed anything. I got help from there when I was a young father with a hungry family. Now, I like to _______ .

This time I could see that most of the shelves were _______ with boxes and cans given away by stores. They said _______ they needed was meat, though, hotdogs were cheap and I didn’t _______ getting some. I soon went to the local store and filled my cart with all the hotdogs I could afford.

As I was paying for _______, I thought of my own childhood. I could see my mom boiling two hotdogs in a pot. Next she put each one on a slice of white bread with a piece of cheese. To top it off, she would _______ a little ketchup (番茄酱). It didn’t cost much but to me it was a great dinner cooked with ________, eaten with joy.

That ________ warmed my heart as I dropped off the hotdogs at the food bank. It felt good knowing that some other little boy or girl out there would soon be having a ________ lunch. With a smile on my face, I left there ________. And I could feel my mom smiling down on me from heaven (天堂) ________ I was walking to my car.

The truth is that, when done with love, ________ and receiving are the same thing. It all comes back around again.