Books : Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
EAN num: 9781558745018
ISBN number: 1558745017
Label: HCI
Manufacturer: HCI
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: April 01, 1997
Publishing house: HCI
Sale Popularity Level: 83032
Studio: HCI
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These stories will deepen your Christian faith by helping you practice Christian values in your daily life: at home, at work and in the community. This collection will open your heart to the experience and expression of more love in your life and will remind you that you are never alone or without hope, no matter how challenging and painful your circumstances may be.
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Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul is an outstanding and inspiring book by everyday real people. The stories will make you laugh and cry and make you feel better about yourself and the great country we live in. A must read for everyone whether your feeling happy or sad,
Christian or not. I can't wait to enjoy my subsequent helping of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soup II.
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This was a great chicken soup book. I liked how almost all the stories were uplifting, not depressing. There were so many wonderful stories that I couldn't even pick my favorite. It almost seemed like each story I was reading was the best! There's only one story I couldn't even talk about without crying, the one about the two little kids buying the gold slippers for their mom. This book makes you think about what it means to be a Christian, and how we should live our lives. I'm going to read Chicken Soup for the Christian Souls 2 next. I didn't get my fill yet of these amazing stories. If this book sounds like it's something you might enjoy, then trust me, you'll just love it!
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Another Chicken Soup favorite of mine. A wonderful collection of stories.
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This book is smack full of heartwarming, true Christian stories. These stories make you feel good inside. This is a perfect book to read when you are snowed in, or before you go to bed each night, or anytime!
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As with the other varied topics in this series, there are short stories of faith, hardships, and mainly (in this volume) overcoming obstatcles in one's life. This being a gift, I tried to find something in it to resemble my own experiences. "Now This Is Music!" spoke to me because I was in a girls' glee club choir in high school, and our teacher has sung with a famous choir in his other life, and demanded perfection. Since I was the only one who could not read music (though I was the only one also to be on local radio and television talent shows as a solo performer), he placed me in between the sopranos and altos -- often reminded me that I was "following" a fraction too slow. This young female choir director pushed her singers to the limit with a difficult piece in a competition in Orange County, California (that's where the talent is!) and they came through for her, receiving a superior rating. Soon after that success, she had an unexplained accident which broke her neck and changed her life forever. She had the faith to carry on with the music in another direction.
Another was "Our Mysterious Passenger," about someone who 'traveled the dark jouney' with a pilot and his wife to get back from Mexico for an important meeting. They placed their trust in him and his story was worth the doubt and worry on the wife's part. Their landing was 'out-of-this-world' but necessary to understand that they had done a favor for a special person who had fulfilled his promise to repay a primitive clinic where he'd been taken after a tragic accident ten years earlier.
The most thought-provoking was at the end of the book written by Tom Veres, a photographer who documented the work of rescuing thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Gestapo during WWII at the risk to his own life. Two of his photos from the basis of the 1997 U. S. Stamp honoring Raoul Wallenberg, one of the Swedes who carried out the difficult rescue.
There were two Thanksgiving stories and several about Christmas, but instead of being uplifting, I found them depressing. I hate holidays anyway, as I am usually alone and lonely on those days when the public transit isn't working. The "Chicken Soup" series has been in production about ten years or more with each volume designated for specific groups, like grandparents, teenage, college, sisters, dogs, pet lovers, golden years, body and soul, and cartoons for teachers.
Jack Canfield has written THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES, THE ALADDIN FACTOR, and SELF-ESTEEM and is a motivational speaker at conferences and conventions. He has a good back up staff at the Canfield Group which selects the 101 stories for each volume; that makes over 2020 stories to be published so far. Most are not by professional writers; some are heart-breaking as was the one about the wedding dress.
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