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October 27, 2023 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, generosity, helping a stranger, kindness

Remembering to hug my wife for helping a stranger

CIRCA 2016. My wife, Linda, knows a thing or two about fussy babies. She’s holding our first two grandchildren on Easter, seven years ago. So when a grandmotherly lady in line at the checkout counter was trying to deal with a fussy child while …

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October 5, 2022 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: #stephenmmiller, compassion, death, final moments, grief, words of comfort

A word for Mom
from God knows where

This could have been about final moments between a son and his mother. For Mom is fragile now, and 800 miles from Kansas, across the eastern plains to Ohio. Or it could have been about death. For I’m the only male left in Mom’s and Dad’s family. Dad …

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from God knows where
September 16, 2017 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Did you know? | tag: compassion, generosity

From Jesus, advice for stingy people

Jesus: “Give and you’ll receive. What you get back will be like a big basket fully loaded…it will be like a bucket so full that it runs over the top and spills into your lap. However much you decide to give, that same level of generosity or …

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May 5, 2016 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, generosity, kindness

Why I hugged my wife on Tuesday

IT WASN’T A NORMAL HUG. I had tears in my eyes at the time. My wife had just finished telling me why she got home from work late. She’s a nurse who works 12-hour night shifts at a hospital. On her way home from work Tuesday morning, she stopped off …

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free hugs
March 24, 2014 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: #stephenmmiller, author, bible, Bible interpretation, books, Christianity, church, compassion, depression, God, hug, hugs, jesus, Jesus Christ, kindness, Lord

God: May I please have a hug?

WHAT ONE QUESTION would you ask God? That’s what I wanted to know. I sent out the word through my social media outlets. Readers fired back a bunch of questions. But one question, from Janelle Timko, did something to me. I felt something physical, …

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Buddy the Dog
June 13, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: animals, compassion, dogs, pets

Bible guide to a dog’s tummy ache

HOW MUCH MONEY should a human spend on a sick critter? Buddy the Dog, on a scale of 1 to 10, is more than $500 sick at the moment. He has been to the vet 3 times in the last half-week. First it was a double ear infection. Now he has what appears to …

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man painting
June 12, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion

One day off work, for a kind deed

I TOOK MOST OF THE DAY OFF yesterday. It was for a church thing. Here’s the problem. On April 27 our church had what we call a Mega Mission day. We rallied folks from our church to do spring chores for people in our city who needed help. We worked …

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Germany family on a train
June 6, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, Germany, hospitality, kindness, vacation

Hospitality: Made in Germany

IN MY LIFETIME I have met very few people who are so welcoming, so gracious, and so selfless in the way they treat me, that they feel like family to me. I’d like you to meet one such family. They are German. I just got back from vacationing with …

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May 7, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, health care, nurses

Nurses are the good guys

I MARRIED A NURSE. A few years later, we had a baby. She grew up. Now I have two nurses in my family. I’m thinking about nurses not only because it’s National Nurses Week. It’s because of a phone call we got at 2:16 am on what had become Sunday of …

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April 10, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, friendship, kindness, risk

Stick your neck out for someone

“Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them” (Matthew 7:12, The Message). THOSE OF YOU who know a bit about me from my writing might be surprised by …

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Stephen M. Miller and neighbor with snow blowers in a cleared driveway
February 27, 2013 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: compassion, kindness, neighbor, snow blower

Snow blower theology

CHRISTIANS SHOULDN’T HAVE SNOW BLOWERS. Not if they: Want to save time Have neighbors I know this because I bought a snow blower. It does not save time…because I have neighbors. We’ve had a pair of foot-high snowstorms in the past week. Each …

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boy on his bed
December 31, 2012 | by: Stephen M. Miller | in: Blog | tag: bed, bible, bible study, christian, Christmas, compassion, jesus, kindness

My church gave Jesus a bed for Christmas

I KNOW that the title of this post sounds odd. But it’s true. I found out about it on Christmas Eve—the perfect night to hear the news. The church I attend has multiple locations throughout the Greater Kansas City area: Church of the Resurrection. We …

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