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Articles: Devotion | What's in ...?
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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It was Molly's job to hand her father his brown paper lunch bag each morning before he headed off to work.
One morning, in addition to his usual lunch bag, Molly handed him a second paper bag. This one was worn and held together with duct tape, staples, and paper clips.
'Why two bags?' Dad asked.
'The other is something else,' Molly answered.
'What's in it?'
'Just some stuff, take it with you.'
Not wanting to discuss the matter, Dad stuffed both bags into his briefcase, kissed Molly and rushed off. At mid-day, while hurriedly having his lunch, he tore open Molly's bag and shook out the contents: two hair ribbons, three small stones, a plastic dinosaur, a pencil stub, a tiny sea shell, two animal crackers, a marble, a used lipstick, a small doll, two chocolate kisses and 13 pennies. Dad smiled, finished eating, and swept the desk clean — into the wastebasket — leftover lunch, Molly's junk and all.
That evening, Molly ran up behind him as he read the paper. 'Where's my bag?'
'What bag?'
'You know, the one I gave you this morning.'
'I left it at the office. Why?'
'I forgot to put this note in it,' she said. 'And, besides, those are my things in the sack, Daddy, the ones I really love — I thought you might like to play with them, but now I want them back. You didn't lose the bag, did you, Daddy?'
'Oh, no,' he said lying, 'I just forgot to bring it home. I'll bring it home tomorrow.'
While Molly hugged her father's neck, he unfolded the note that had not made it into the sack: 'I love you, Daddy,' it read.
Molly had given him her treasures — all that a 7-year-old held dear. Love in a paper sack, and he missed it — not only missed it, but had thrown it in the wastebasket!
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