A verse to hold close

I read Francis Gay’s talking about the joy of a hug and thought I’d share part of a verse I copied from your paper, I believe, around 20 years ago. It feels very appropriate at the moment. I’m a granny and I am missing all of my hugs from my family terribly:

It’s wonderful what a hug can do – a hug can cheer you when you’re blue.

A hug can say “I love you so, oh how I hate to see you go”.

A hug is “welcome back again!” And “great to see you, wherever you been?”

A hug can soothe a small child’s pain, and bring a rainbow after rain.

A hug – there’s just no doubt about it, we scarcely could survive without it. A hug delights and warms and charms, it must be why God gave us arms.

Dorothy Coutts, by email