They were exited about new opportunities to be together, to travel, and to explore. Then my friend began to feel constantly fatigued. Then there were tell-tale traces of blood, and finally cancer was diagnosed. What was a promising early retirement has become a struggle for life. It is not just disease that brings chaos.
Finances can shift from good to poor overnight.
An electrical short, a thunderstorm, and a house can burn down. Once, as my wife and I were driving away from mailing the final payment on our car and as we were talking about how to celebrate, our car suddenly made a terrible racket and stopped. Soon after, we began making payments on a rebuilt engine. I know this kind of talk can be depressing, and I hope you don't think I am being cynical about life. However, it does seem that when we get close to being better, evil attacks.