Blessings and challenges

Looking back, I’ve been blessed over my lifetime by many people. Every Christmas, I decorate my Christmas tree with special ornaments from friends and family; each a gift representing something about that person which brings back warm memories as I place them on the tree. More blessings were realized as I browsed through a box filled with all of the cards and letters I had sent my wife, as well as pictures of some of our travels together. She had kept them all! But then there have been dark t