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    Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
    Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
    Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
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    Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition

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    If you are a longtime fan of our Hugs books, thank you for your support over the past ten years.

    If this is your first purchase, welcome to the family. The Hugs series has touched the lives of more than seven million people nationwide. It's brought countless hours of love and encouragement to moms, dads, aunts, sisters, brothers, daughters, and everyone in between.

    Its message is really simple -- you are loved and appreciated for what you do! While it's our anniversary, we share it with you for making this dream come true.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoward Books
    Release dateAug 17, 2007
    ISBN9781416567073
    Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart: 10th Anniversary Limited Edition
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      Hugs to Wrap Around Your Heart - Howard Books

      chapter 1

      reaching

      out

      Every day I am your way, your truth, and your life. You can reach out because I strengthen you in all you do.

      And as you give, watch Me multiply blessings back to you in overflowing ways.

      Generously,

      Your God of Every Good and Perfect Gift

      —FROM JOHN 14:6; PHILIPPIANS 4:13; LUKE 6:38; JAMES 1:17

      inspirational message

      We all feel at times like we’re running on a hamster wheel. Just running, around and around, with no end in sight. Today, though, you jumped off! You left the dishes piled in the sink and ran to a friend who needed a shoulder to cry on. Or maybe you left work early, even though your desk was covered with paperwork, to buy Christmas presents for kids at the battered women and children’s shelter down the road.

      Whatever it was you did for someone else, it felt good. You traded all the tasks on your to-do list for something of greater significance.

      And you noticed something. Nothing dreadful happened. The earth kept spinning on its axis. No natural disasters could be traced back to your change in schedule.

      In fact, sometimes it’s exactly when life seems to be spinning out of control—when you just don’t think you could possibly help anybody else because your life is such a mess—that we need to reach out. Somehow you just do it, and afterward you know why it pays to go the extra mile.

      Who knows, maybe you really needed that walk more than the person who asked you to join her. At any rate, it sure beats running on that wheel.

      I have learned that what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.

      What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

      Albert Pike

      The Gift

      The phone rang as Cheryl was starting another load of laundry. It was the third one she’d done that day, along with cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming the entire house, mopping the kitchen floor, and taking care of the three children—all while her husband sat in his home office leisurely working at the computer. Cheryl had thought Gary’s going into business for himself and having his office at home would be great for the family. But now she realized that meant her husband never left work. Working was all he seemed to be doing these days.

      I’m not answering! Cheryl hollered to Gary. I don’t have time to talk to anyone. She knew she sounded haggard. That was how she felt, and she wanted Gary to know it. Today was Saturday. She’d been trying to make her feelings known all week.

      Ring, ring. This is the Stone residence. Sorry we missed your call… Cheryl could hear the answering machine from the hall. Figures, she thought. Gary can’t even take the time to answer the phone around here. Then she muttered under her breath to whoever might be calling. Don’t hold your breath. ‘As soon as possible’ is gonna be a while.

      Gary had decided to quit his job to become an independent contractor three months earlier with Cheryl’s full support. He had plenty of computer expertise, and they felt confident he could get enough consulting work to make a good living. She just hadn’t realized how hard he would have to work to make that happen.

      For all her grumpiness, Cheryl knew Gary was a good husband. He’d always participated fully with the three children, waking up for nighttime feedings when they were babies, taking turns shuttling the oldest to school and practice for whatever sport was in season. He’d stop by the grocery store or the pizza place on the way home from work to pick up supper, and he’d throw in a load or two of laundry when necessary. They had been a good team—always busy, but somehow it had worked. Until recently.

      Cheryl understood that Gary was feeling the burden of responsibility to make it in his new venture and be able to support the family. This is only for a little while, until he gets going, she kept telling herself. But lately the positive self-talk was being drowned out by self-pity. Sure, he’s working, but I work full-time too, plus I’m doing everything else around here. Their second-grader had homework at least a couple of nights a week, and the twin toddlers were a handful—the house seemed in a continual state of disaster. Cheryl was worn out and at the end of her rope. And when Gary didn’t answer the phone, it felt like the last straw.

      Her mental grumbling was interrupted by the voice on the answering machine. Cheryl, this is Laura. I was hoping we could do something fun together this evening. I really need a break from the hospital and could use someone to talk to.

      Cheryl immediately felt awful. That was her best friend in the entire world. Laura’s father had had a stroke on Monday. The doctors didn’t think he would ever fully

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