After Stewart and Debbie Wilder lost their son, Cameron, in 2013, the last thing on their minds was decorating for the holiday season. "We havenˈt put anything up in three years. It has all stayed boxed up," said Debbie.
But in December 2016, the house was lit up for Christmas, with little lights cheerfully lining the roof and eaves（屋檐）. It wasnˈt the Wilders but a stranger Carson Zickgraf, the founder of CZ Enterprises LLC, who finally made the house shine. "I started crying," Debbie says about seeing the lights for the first time. "It was really special."
Zickgraf has been donating his light-stringing services to brighten the lives of families affected by losing their children, especially during the difficult holiday season since 2015 and has decorated the houses of more than two dozen families so far.
He started the project by chance. He was hanging lights on a home when the owner mentioned that some neighbors were having a hard time that holiday season because their son had recently died. Then he had an idea. "I sent my crew there to decorate that house too," he says. The family was delighted. In fact, he had two friends who had died young, and heˈd always wished he could ease the pain for their loved ones. Now, heˈs found a way.
" Thereˈs something special about Christmas lights. They warm the spirit." Zickgraf knows his efforts canˈt completely remove the pain from these families, but he can make the holidays a little cheerier. "I wish I had a bigger company so I could do more houses," he says.
