Flashback Friday - When Christmas Mixes with Sorrow - Martin Wiles

When Christmas Mixes with Sorrow

“Can you think of anything we can sell,” I asked my wife. “The only thing I can think of,” she responded, is my….” 

Christmas 2013 was shaping up to be the leanest Christmas season my wife and I had experienced since we married. Gifts were purchased from places we normally wouldn’t buy them from, and if not for the ones she had bought during the sales season after last year’s Christmas, we wouldn’t have as many as we did. Buying for each other was out of the question; we were merely attempting to give small tokens of love to family members. We had joy because we knew the real reason for the season, but it mixed with sorrow over not being able to make it brighter for others—and ourselves. Read more...

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