Beth wasn’t entirely right. There weren’t three stockings on the mantel the next Christmas. There were four.
Henry Farmer’s stocking hung right next to his baby grandson Lionel’s. The old man who thought he was living his final chapter at a nursing home found he actually had a few more left in him. Baby Lionel gave him a new reason to live. So Grandpa Henry moved in with his son and daughter-in-law to watch the little guy grow up firsthand.
Now, don’t think Andrew and Beth Farmer have a perfect life. We don’t. But there’s one thing for certain: we love each other deeply, and those three days changed me in ways I never thought possible. I learned to be grateful for the good in this life, to appreciate the little things and the insignificant moments. To treat every single day as if it were my last.
If you have a grateful heart, then no matter what the number on your bank balance reads, you’re as wealthy as the richest tycoon.
And it’s forever Christmas.