Stories that Heal Hearts and Sooth Souls

By Rev. John Eugene Miller

This little book is made up of some personal stories I have written. These stories were included in my book, "Inside the Mind of a Pastor." I am publishing  these stories as a stand-alone eBook for people who may like reading short stories. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. I believe stories have a special way of healing our hearts and soothing our souls. May you be healed and soothed as you read these stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nazkine TV Publishing LLC
• Release date: Apr 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201781859

Rev. John Eugene Miller

Rev. John Eugene Miller is an Ordained Elder in the Church of the Nazarene. John has been in full time Christian ministry for 23 years and has a diversity ministry experience. John has pastored churches in Colorado, Florida, West Virginia and Hawaii. John attended Olivet Nazarene University where he studied Marketing and Psychology until transferring to Nazarene Bible College where he graduated with a Bachelors degree in Biblical Studies. Now he is working towards his Master!s Degree at Point Loma Nazarene University. John has opened and directed two Life Skills Learning Centers, that teach the Learning to live, Learning to love curriculum, founded by Dr. Paul Hegstrum. John produces and delivers a weekly radio broadcast in West Virginia, that brings messages of hope, on a country music station called K96.5. John currently writes and delivers weekly messages of hope, encouragement and victory on a local cable network on the Island of Oahu Hawaii, called Nazkine TV. John has traveled extensively throughout the world on mission trips for the Church of the Nazarene. He has journeyed to Djibouti Africa, Ethiopia Africa, Lima Peru twice, Nicaragua twice, Guatemala twice, Honduras, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Russia, and Belize. He gained experience working with and speaking to other cultures on these trips. John has been married 27 years to his wife, Carla, they have two sons and and a daughter. Peter their middle son has global developmental delays and receives all his food through a feeding tube in his stomach. John has multiple life experiences which enables him to speak to diverse groups of people and can relate his story to many different types of people. John published his first book in February of 2015, Journey to the Center of the Heart, One man’s journey from hell to paradise, published by Chart House Press LLC. He published his second book, Forgiveness, The Greatest Gift Yourself, was self published in December of 2020, and the second edition released on November of 2021. John published, Inside the Mind of a Pastor in March of 2022,and  The Adventures of Loki and Nani in March of 2022, and The Resurrection Caused an Insurrection, in April of 2022.

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Introduction

This little book is made up of some personal stories I have written. These stories were included in my book, Inside the Mind of a Pastor. I am publishing  these stories as a stand-alone eBook for people who may like reading short stories.

I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. I believe stories have a special way of healing our hearts and soothing our souls. May you be healed and soothed as you read these stories.

God Loves Little Girls and Butterflies too. (Story about my daughter Jeda)

Yesterday my little 9-year girl, Jeda Joy Miller, came inside the house grabbed some rubber gloves and dashed out the door almost knocking me over as I was in her pathway to the outside world of adventure.

I said, what are you doing? She replied, ‘I’m getting something daddy!’ What are you getting? She disappeared down the sidewalk and didn’t reappear for several minutes.

Next, she came running up to me with her hands cupped closed and something was hidden inside her tiny palms. I said, Jeda what do you have in your hands? ‘Something daddy!’ What is it?

She opened her little hands protected by her rubber gloves. I saw a little butterfly slowing moving its wings. Its body appeared to be panting for breath and holding on for life. Jeda said, daddy it’s going to die, with a little sadness in her voice. I said, let’s pray for it.

I reached out