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CONNECTION SPOTLIGHT: The Connection Miracle of a Church Reunion

Our own Esther Miller (pictured at left) has a beautifully written guest post called “A Visit With Mom” on Karen S. Elliott’s WordShark blog today. Head on over there (Click Here) and read Esther’s story about how hometown people she barely knew gave her the gift of connection with her mother, who had died 15 years earlier. [...]

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How to Connect When Words Fail

The use of spoken language is so uniquely human that we are lost when trying to communicate with someone who cannot speak. We forget that for the first years of our lives, we had no language and yet we communicated quite well with those who took the time to learn our personal language. Their responsiveness [...]

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An October drive through the Shenandoah Valley

Any excuse for a drive in the country For several years, the volunteer fire department in a neighboring town served a wonderful breakfast one Sunday a month. To add to the pleasure of the excellent meal, we took a long and winding route home that showcased the changes in our landscape month by month. One [...]

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Heartspoken: the rest of the story

Many of us were moved by Esther Hastings Miller’s story in this blog on June 12, 2012, about her aunt with Alzheimer’s. Entitled “Heartspoken,” it spoke beautifully and poignantly about the heartache of losing someone to this insidious disease. Esther has recently shared this photo of her with Anna and a follow-up story about Anna’s [...]

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Heartspoken

She struggled to introduce me. “This is…uh…my…friend… My friend…has come… My friend has come…to see me.” I greet her with a hug and call her by the name that only I have ever called her, but she struggles to tell her neighbor at the lunch table who I am. I laugh and give them [...]

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It’s time to grease the windmill

Welcome to guest blogger Esther Miller, returning to our pages with this delightful story about love. It seemed just right for Valentine’s Day! Our RV had been parked at a friend’s farm all summer, so we were considered part of the neighborhood when the invitations went out for a birthday barbecue. A neighbor’s twin granddaughters [...]

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Closing the Circle of Nature

One glorious summer morning years ago I left my children with their grandparents in a small town in Iowa and went off to my first encounter with virgin tall-grass prairie. Armed with field guides and an indistinct map, I wandered down washboard gravel roads, not sure I’d recognize prairie when I found it. I did [...]

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