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A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit
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Item description for A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit by Mike Huckabee...
"The first Christmas was a simple one. So simple that it had all the makings of a first-class disaster. It's a miracle it turned out well at all. In fact, that's the whole point. It really was, and remains, a miracle--the greatest miracle of all time. And it really was simple."
-Mike Huckabee
Christmas has become synonymous with shopping, overindulging, competition, and stress. But according to Mike Huckabee (who was a pastor before getting into politics), that was never God's intention. Going back to the Nativity, Christmas is supposed to be about simple things: faith, love, family, and hope. The hard part, in today's crazy world, is remembering that those simple things are the most precious of all.
Now Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories--often funny, sometimes deeply moving--that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate. These true stories will help you smile, take a deep breath, and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill. For instance:
As kids, Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas, play with them, then rewrap them so their parents wouldn't notice. The plan worked great for several years until one Christmas morning when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football...that was covered in mud. That led to a powerful lesson about patience.
In 1966, like millions of preteens, Mike was obsessed with the Beatles. He dug in his heels, telling his parents that if they wouldn't buy him a guitar for Christmas, he didn't want anything at all. He was selfish, stubborn, and obnoxious, with no idea what it would take for working-class parents to find an extra $99. It took many years for him to understand the sacrifice they made for that life-changing gift--or how it connected to the Lord's own sacrifice.
Only a year after Mike and his wife, Janet, had gotten married, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the shocking age of twenty. That Christmas of 1975 was the most terrifying and upsetting they would ever know, as they wondered if they would ever get to share another one. But in retrospect, it's a Christmas they will treasure forever.
If you're looking for a little clarity, sanity, and inspiration at this insane time of year, you're sure to enjoy A Simple Christmas.
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Item Specifications...
Studio: Sentinel HC
Pages 240
Dimensions: Length: 8.3" Width: 5.4" Height: 0.9"
Weight: 0.7 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2009
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN 1595230629
ISBN13 9781595230621
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Publishers description for A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit...
"The New York Times" bestseller by the former governor and presidential candidate-an instant classic, reissued for 2010.
Christmas has become synonymous with shopping, overindulging, and stress. But according to Mike Huckabee, that was never God's intention. Going back to the Nativity, Christmas is supposed to be about simple things: faith, love, family, and hope. The hard part, in today's crazy world, is remembering that those simple things are the most precious.
Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate. These true stories will help you smile, take a deep breath, and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill.
For instance, as kids, Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas, play with them, then rewrap them so their parents wouldn't notice. The plan worked great until one Christmas when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football...that was covered in mud. That led to a powerful lesson about patience and a reminder that the best Christmases are the simple ones. |
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Reviews - What do customers think about Simple Christmas?
 | Entertaining Book Dec 2, 2009 |
| Something different from Mike Huckabee, as this book doesn't contain much about politics. It's interesting to read about Mike Huckabee's past Christmases, which sometimes were very humorous, and sometimes sad too. | | | | A Simple Christmas Nov 30, 2009 |
| I enjoyed this book very much, since I am a fan of Huckabee's Fox News show, I really felt like he was here, reading the book to me! I like books with messages and in these difficult times...I agree with Mike, It is time to get back to the basics and remember what Christmas is All About. Would make nice Christmas Gifts | | | | Great book! Nov 30, 2009 |
| Mike, you had the audacity of giving all the obese people hope when you lost 500 pounds. The dream ticket for 2012 would've been Huckabee/Palin. However, Maurice Clemmons is your Willie Horton. Say good-bye to 2012 as you have no political future. I will enjoy watching your talk show. Overall, the book was great and very inspirational. Its time to wage war on the War Against Christmas. | | | | Great Read By Mike Huckabee Nov 27, 2009 |
"A Simple Christmas" by Mike Huckabee is a great read on how the author remembers past Christmas seasons in his life and how he believes simplicity is the best way to celebrate Christmas (being with family and friends, reflecting on Jesus' birth, and avoiding the crass commercialism that so dominates the Christmas season today).
The book contains around 12 chapters with the following chapters and themes:
1. Patience - Huckabee and his sister's tendency to open their presents before Christmas and putting them back without being caught by their parents.
2. Sacrifice - What his parents gave up to buy Huckabee a guitar for one Christmas.
3. Loneliness - Huckabee's family taking care of a bachelor uncle suffering from terminal cancer.
4. Family - Visiting family during the Christmas season.
5. Traditions - Some of the Huckabee traditions observed during the Christmas season.
6. Crisis - When his wife suffered through cancer and was healed.
7. Hope - When Huckabee started classes at Southwestern Theological Seminary.
8. Stability - Huckabee getting a job and his wife having their first child.
9. Limitations - Huckabee humorously describes his mechanically challenged abilities (or lack thereof).
10. Transitions - When Huckabee was a pastor and entered into the political arena.
11. Faith - Huckabee's elation at being governor while also saddened that his father did not live long enough to see him being sworn in.
12. Rewards - The various rewards the Huckabee family experienced when Huckabee was governor and later when he ran as a Republican presidential candidate.
The book's narrative flows freely and may be easily read in a couple of sittings. I found myself reminiscing about past Christmas seasons and how I have been blessed myself.
Read and enjoy. Highly recommended! | | | | We to get back to the real meaning of Christmas Nov 23, 2009 |
This is an uplifting book, but Huck is an uplifitng positive person.
After listening to the depressing nightly news, I read a chapter or a half a chapter before I go to bed. I sleep much better because the stories counteract the negative mood of this country.
Some of the stories I can relate to. I was married about the same age as he was but about thirty years before. There were very few apartments to rent because none were built during WW2 and we didn't have much money. But, with God grace, we made it. Simpler probably not but sixty-one years later we still have each other and appreciate what He has provided for us all these years.
Patricia Fagerstrom
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