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months. He couldn’t talk, eat or walk and lived with daily pain. When they finally took the tracheal tube out, and he was able to eat a little bit of pureed food, the expression of delight on his face was a sight to behold. I began to see how privileged and blessed we are to taste, to smell, to see, to touch. My husband has a rare eye disease and may go blind in the future. Just a few years ago, I started to lose some of my sight for reading and had a little taste of his challenge. How much more appreciation I have for my eyesight now. Sometimes it takes a situation where you are deprived of something that you rely on to appreciate what you have. 82 www.simplyelevate.com ETERNAL REWARDS It’s so easy to get caught up with desires for what others have when it’s all around us in advertising and TV shows. The content in a lot of TV programs