Jack Canfield - 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul. More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

My mom made chicken soup for me to give me strength and encouragement to feel better. It made me feel warm inside. I know now that it was both the soup and my moms love at work. And this is why A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul will inspire every reader. Inside these pages, you will find strength, encouragement and love.

Jim Tunney
professional speaker and former NFL referee

Another great batch of soul soup!

Jeff Bridges
actor

The Chicken Soup for the Soul series encourages us to create the best possible world imaginable.

LeVar Burton
actor/producer

A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul is a book the whole family can enjoy. The stories will challenge you, change you or just make you laugh. Read it all at once or a little at a time. It wont matterits good any way you can get it.

Porter Wagoner
Grand Ole Opry

Time and time again Chicken Soup nourishes us with graceful accounts of the divine gift of love.

James Redfield
author of The Celestine Prophecy and The Celestine Vision

Theres always room for a little more Chicken Soup. On tour across America, I recently ate my way through A 3rd and 4th Course of Chicken Soup. They kept my heart on track every step of the way. Thank you for the soul food.

Kenny Loggins
singer, songwriter and coauthor of The Unimaginable Life

The Chicken Soup series is so successful because every book gives us what we all wanthappiness, hope, security, courage and inspiration. These books and stories touch our heart and bring out the very best of what it means to be a human being.

Dennis Wholey
host of the PBS series This is America
and author of The Miracle of Change

The Chicken Soup for the Soul series will ignite your deepest passion for life in all its vibrant colors. The stories will touch your heart and fill your soul.

Cathy Lee Crosby
actress and author of Let the Magic Begin

Chicken Soup for the Soul is a phenomenal series!

Sidney Sheldon
bestselling author

With great respect for all you have done to make America great Again! Thank you!

Dick DeVos
president, Amway Corporation

The Chicken Soup for the Soul series has been outstanding and an emotional lift for millions of people around the world causing us all to laugh and cry. Mark and Jack have also discovered the universal principle of sharing financial blessings with others by donating a portion of sales to worthy charities. I know you will enjoy these wonderful stories.

Barry Borthistle
president, Enrich North America
and International Ambassador

A 5th Portion of
CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE SOUL

More Stories to
Open the Heart and
Rekindle the Spirit

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

W e tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Joan Didion

With love and appreciation we dedicate this book to the more than 20 million people who have purchased, read and shared the fourteen Chicken Soup for the Soul books with their families, friends, business partners, employees, students and congregations, and to the over five thousand readers who have sent us stories, poems, cartoons and quotes for possible inclusion in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Although we couldnt use everything you sent in, we were deeply touched by your heartfelt intention to share yourselves and your stories with us and our readers. Love to you!

SHOE JEFF MACNELLY

SHOE 1996 Jeff MacNelly. Reprinted with permission of Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

Contents

Dee Berry

Angela Sturgill

Roy Popkin

Tom Clancy

Bonita L. Anticola

Terry ONeal

Marion Bond West

Carmen Rutlen

Penny Porter

Eva Unga

James C. Brown, M.D.

Penny Porter

Louise Ladd

Kathleen Dixon

Tyree Dillingham

James C. Brown, M.D.

Gwyn Williams

Michael Hargrove

Annette Paxman Bowen

Anonymous

Henry Matthew Ward

Dorothy DuNard

Dana OConnor and Melissa Levin

Mike Lipstock

Beth Mullally

Ben Fanton

Jerry Gale

David Kettler

Marsha Arons

Susan Union

Barbara Chesser, Ph.D.

Paula (Bachleda) Koskey

Edgar Guest

Brenda Gallardo

Sherry Miller

Kathleen Beaulieu

Gwen Belson Taylor

Karen Cogan

Rochelle M. Pennington

Marsha Arons

Nancy Sullivan Geng

Randy Loyd Mills

David L. Weatherford

Terry A. Savoie

John F. Flanagan Jr.

Christine Pisera Naman

April Burk

Melissa D. Strong Eastham

Anonymous

Samuel P. Clark

Mary Beth Danielson

Carol OConnor

Marsha Arons

James C. Brown, M.D.

Anonymous

Patricia Chasse

Kevin Lumsdon

Kirk Hill

Colleen Keefe and Shauna Dickey

Written by a pediatric nurse, submitted to Ann Landers

Eva Harding

Wayne Cotton

Rulon Openshaw

Robert R. Thomas

Reverend Neil Parker

Priscilla Stenger

Jacqueline Zabresky, R.N.

Deborah Roberto McDonald

Duke Raymond

S. Turkaly

Dianne Demarcke