However, the past several years had been a battle. He had lost his mother, father, and brother all to cancer. His beloved wife had battled cancer also, but by the grace of God she beat it.

His large home was gone now, and he struggled to make ends meet by working a part time job waiting for the day when he would go full time. Then everything would one day be alright again, he thought.

Until then he lived with the love of his wife in a very small rented house; often discourage and depressed. What a loser! How did this happen and why to him.

His two sons were not very successful either though he loved them dearly. They both had their problems; especially the older one. He had addiction problems, and difficulty holding a job. However he never asked anyone for anything, and always greeted the other members of the family with a warm smile and a handshake. Still he was pretty much deemed a loser.

Now this man, who lived just with his wife, had heard of a terrible accident in another state. The man's wife wanted to go with her sister in-law far away for a couple of weeks to see the girl in the hospital. Regretfully he said that it was ok and she should go. You see his luck had been so bad lately he feared something would happen.

It was then that his oldest son called and said he needed to stay there for a little while. "Well okay. I don�t know where you'll sleep. On the floor, I guess."

So they came to stay; his son, and his sons fiance who was carrying his future grandbaby. She was 7 mos.pregnant at the time.

The days dragged by. The father being angry at his situation sometimes grouched at the kids in the living arrangement that was good for neither of them. However, they had some good times too, and laughed and tried to make the best of it.

Lonely, and missing his wife, the day came when he heard word that she was on her way home.

It just turned out that the evening before his wife's return, his son and fiance were leaving also.

Now alone in his tiny home all by himself he sat, and a very deep feeling of loneliness fell upon him. And then he realized how truly blessed he was. What a fine son he had brought up. He thought how those kids came in and spent what little money they had to help with the groceries and what a nice spaghetti dinner the son had cooked for them. And how they both had kept up on the house chores without being asked. Everyday when he returned home from work the house was clean.

Sitting alone in his chair, tears started to swell in his eyes as he remembered when they said their goodbyes. When they said goodbye, his Son hugged his Dad and shook his hand and said, "you'll be alright now Dad."

It was then that the Father realized that he had not been helping out his son, but his son had been helping him!

Sometimes we get lost in our daily struggles and think money is the only term for success. But the next day when this mans' wife returned home he gave her the biggest hug and kiss, and then told her of what their son had done while she was gone.