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    Whispering to Horses
    Whispering to Horses
    Whispering to Horses
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    Whispering to Horses

    By Thomas Nye

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    An old fence separates a modern community from their Amish neighbors, until a little boy opens the gate and breaks down barriers between them. Main characters, Matt and Eli, find friendship, hope, and a future through a mutual need, which creates an opportunity for them to learn to understand each other. Eli and his little sisters will touch your heart by Whispering to Horses.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossLink Publishing
    Release dateNov 2, 2015
    ISBN9781633570597
    Whispering to Horses
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    Thomas Nye

    Thomas Nye, author of Under the Heavens and Catbird Singing, lives near an Amish community, where he grew to know and respect his Amish neighbors. His love for draft horses deepened that connection and compelled him to write about his experiences. He and his wife have five adult children.

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    • 5/5
      This is a new author to me and I really enjoyed how he described things so vividly. He made the story come to life by writing with such beauty and details. I could feel the light breeze on my face and hear the horses as they worked in the fields. What magnificent horses they were so sleek and strong as they went about their daily chores. Matt has inherited a house that he is not pleased with at all. He can't stand the smell from the farmland next door. It is an Amish family that works the land and for some reason that irritates him. His character is angry at the world it seems. His plan is to sell the house as quick as he can and get far away from the Amish family and country living. Matt is not someone I would enjoy being around with his horrible attitude . Will something happen to change his mind about moving? Will his heart soften towards the Amish family? Eli is Matt's neighbor and really works hard everyday. Matt takes notice of this young man and his work ethic. Matt realizes that Eli could make his yard beautiful and attract buyers . Eli is hired to landscape Matt's yard and is eager to start . I loved the interaction between Matt and Eli. As their friendship developed, Matt seemed to not be as angry. The story is beautifully written and at the beginning of the book the author gives us a little history of the two houses. Long ago Matt's grandfather was friends with the Amish family that lived in the house Eli and his family now live in. They decided to put in a gate so it would be easy to get to each other if there was ever a need. "Good fences make good neighbors, but a gate opens the way for help in time of need." Oh how I loved that sentence. How many of us have blocked gates so we wouldn't be bothered by other? Did we miss opportunities that God had for us? The story has so many messages throughout that I hated to see it end. Memories are wonderful to have when they remind you of a happy time and the story touched on that with such grace. There are a few surprises in the story that really blends well with the theme of the book. I hope you get a chance to read this short book and feel the warmth of a story that brings hope, contentment and peace. I received this book from Celebrate Lit for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      Whispering to the Horses could be a bit longer. The author could get quite a few ways with this. It would be great for a series. I would also enjoy learning more about Eli and Matt. This is a good introduction of how it important to be Amish in your community. You can even learn from each other as Matt and Eli did. They seem of made a fast friendship.It was nice to see it from another viewpoint as of Matt a business man. How he starts to understand what the Amish do and how they go about life. How our world may be more difficult because we make it that way. We should probably take a look at our neighbors and learn from them if they are Amish or not and try and make life simpler is better and making a family more important.Eli shows what hard work is and how a nine-year-old can be more mature than any other nine years old. For he takes on responsibly like a man does for a family. He does not show or act like no other normal nine years old in a modern day. As the Amish can learn from us, we really can learn from them and their lifestyle.
    • 5/5
      This is such a sweet novella. It is part of the Amish Horses series. Matt moves back to his parents farm to fix it up and sell because he doesn't really like a home near an Amish farm. He hires the young Amish boy next door to redo his yard. Every day he loosens up and gets to know the Amish family a little better. What will happen in the end? I received a copy of this from Celebratelit for a fair and honest opinion.

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    Whispering to Horses - Thomas Nye

    Whispering to Horses

    Whispering to Horses

    An Amish Horses Novella

    Thomas Nye

    Whispering to Horses: An Amish Horses Novella

    CrossLink Publishing

    www.crosslinkpublishing.com

    Copyright, © 2015 Thomas Nye

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, except for brief quotations in reviews, without the written permission of the author.

    Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved under International Copyright Law.

    ISBN 978-1-63357-059-7

    This story is written as fiction. All names, places, and situations are a result of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any comparison to actual events, businesses, or persons living or deceased is purely coincidental.

    Chapter 1
    Contents

    Chapter 1 - The Fence

    Chatper 2 - A Big Problem

    Chapter 3 - Hope

    Chapter 4 - Misunderstandings

    Chapter 5 - Conversations

    Chatper 6 - Good Seed

    Chapter 7 - Memories

    The Fence

    In every Midwestern town, spring comes bustling with new life. Flowering trees drench whole communities with a perfume that stirs something within folks—something they knew as a child but soon forgot. Birdsongs are light and happy. Tulips emerge, touting bright colors. Lilac bushes hang with flowering clusters, dripping with a sweet aroma. Bees wake up buzzing, hurrying about and gathering pollen. Little toddlers make cheerful coos as they play with sticks and dirt, pick flowers, and drink in all of those ancient sights and sounds for the first time. Something very old becomes new in them. Deep within their tiny souls, they recognize a truth as old as time. Even a very small child knows it well.

    There are a few locations in this world where antiquity and contemporary exist side by side; this is a story of one of those places. Years ago, when Matthew and Enos were young men, they labored together, putting in a fence between their farms. They dug holes, set posts, stretched wires tightly from post to post, all the while sweating under a hot summer sun. At the halfway mark, they had a long debate about whether or not to put in a gate.

    Matthew declared, A gate will weaken our fence.

    Enos stated, My grandpa taught me, ‘Good fences make good neighbors, but a gate opens the way for help in time of need.’ That settled it. They placed a gate in the fence; however, it had never been used.

    Enos was Amish, and his neighbor Matthew was not. In those days there was not much difference. Neither of the young neighbors had electricity; both farmed with horses. They even dressed something alike—suspenders, straw hat, and similar beards. The difference was in this: Matthew loved modern inventions and strove to be up to date. Enos disliked change and made a clear effort to keep things as they were. Matthew and Enos died in their nineties. This story is about their grandchildren and the fence with a gate that was never used.

    For a very long time, the fence served the dignified purpose of keeping Enos’s cattle from mingling with Matthew’s. On one side of the woven wire, everything stayed the same. Over the fence, change was the only constant. Matthew was one of the first to purchase a newfangled engine on wheels; they called it a tractor. He could plow faster, plant more corn, and put up more hay,

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