A Happy and Great New Year 2024!
A little story, a big gift, great blessings.
This Christmas of 2023 is the 6th Christmas without my beloved husband, Hal.
It does not become easier, it becomes more depressing and sadder each added year.
But having to admit, there are rewards. Big gifts to me are my dear friends, such blessings! Such rewards! Such treasures! After six years I still get beautiful Christmas cards, calls, e-mails, wonderful visits and comments that touch my soul on Marcie’s website from so many dear friends.
I feel so blessed, so honored and loved. The gift of all this, outweighs by far, the hurt and longing I feel for my Hal. Not all dear friends are able to visit, some moved away, and some cannot come the distance at this holiday time, but I hold them in my heart.
I know, I should never complain, I have so much to be thankful for, being ungrateful would take all the deep joy I feel away.
Grateful, blessed, thankful are a big part of my long life and it becomes clearer to me with every added year, that I am very rich and have a warm and cozy feeling, that keeps me going.
Thank you, my dearest friends from the heart for your continued friendship:
Love is the best of all feelings.
Your Ilona
Thank you for another year of the gift of your beautiful and powerful stories, dearest Ilona!
Thank you for this new year’s blessing too. Wishing you a very happy 2024!
Love from Marcie and Tom
Thank you Ilona and Marcie, for posting this beautiful New Year message! It makes my heart sink to read that each Christmas without her Hal is not easier, but sadder and more depressing, but Ilona’s great love of others shines through. I am so grateful, thankful and blessed by her friendship and the joy it brings to my life.
Blessings and joy to each of you in 2024.