Of course, the greatest gift to me has been and continues to be my wife.
But, I would like to mention that the gifts that have made the greatest positive impact in my later years have been the challenges that the Lord has brought me through in these last 10 years.
These challenges included loosing my job with the economic downturn in 2009, followed by fighting cancer in 2012.
These may seem like calamities, and they were difficult for me and my family to go thru, but the Lord used them to put an end to my work-life (while not really leaving me infirm) and to prepare my heart for the new life He would have me live.
He brought me through all that and I am now living a retirement life of service to the Lord thru service to those around me. Service to my community through volunteerism, and service to the people I meet daily.
I have made a conscious effort to be a blessing to those I meet.
I forget who said it, and I may have the quotation wrong, but it is said that 'At any given moment, you need have only two loves: The Love of God, and love for the person in front of you'.
So I am not really stretching things to say that the greatest gifts I received in my later life was to loose my job and to battle cancer.