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On October 15th, my beloved mother-in-law, Leona Hinze, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has now passed.
She was a courageous woman to the very end, and one who experienced many changes in her ninety-one years. For 68 of those years, she played the organ for her church, St. John’s Lutheran. In my 34 years with her, she often said when she reached playing for a hundred weddings, she was going to retire, but then someone would ask her to play for their wedding and she always did. At the time of her death, she had played 127 weddings and over 300 funerals.
Music was her ministry and her passion, and I, along with many others, were privileged to hear her express her heartfelt passion often and for a long time.
Once, when I thought I was dying, I told her I had been blessed. I’d had a life of being well loved and of loving well. In real life, that’s about the best it gets. A few days before her death, she told me that she’d thought about loving and being loved and she’d been blessed with a wonderful life. Now and forever all of us treasure those words from her and we’re comforted by them.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested contributions to the Leona Hinze Memorial Fund at St. John’s Lutheran Church. The address is 3316 Hummingbird Lane at Hwy 77, Robstown, Tx 78380. This memorial fund is dedicated to a new organ for the church.
Blessings,
Vicki
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In the last week, every email that I’ve gotten from those who read this blog has related to crisis and stress. Understandable, considering.
Stress either builds slowly over time or comes on like a gangbuster and body slams you. Either way, we know that stress kills. Many try to ignore what has them stressed. They deny, rationalize, ignore, suppress, or otherwise attempt to hide from the stress factors that are burdening them.
It doesn’t work. And the impairments that come with it impact you emotionally, spiritually and physically. There is no calm, peace, serenity and the physical body rebels against all those things. You see headaches, body aches even nausea and colon challenges. The entire body can be impacted and tossed into turmoil.
What does work?
Dealing with the stress.
How do you do that?
Get physical.
Exercise releases endorphins that counter the chemical imbalance stress brings on.
Get rested.
Weariness and exhaustion destroys our ability to make calm, rational decisions or to set our course of actions.
Get smart.
Whether your worries are personal, your private business, your professional business, the nation’s business--get informed. It’s impossible to make wise choices when you don’t know the details. When you understand the challenge, then you can focus on the solution.
Making that shift--from the challenge to the solution is paramount in lowering your stress level. Why? Because command of the matter gives you confidence that the decisions you make will be good ones, seated in wisdom.
These are stressful times and they’re going to get worse before they get better. Every generation has its challenges, and this one is no exception. That isn’t always a bad thing. It’s not pleasant, but challenges have value. If we elect not to ignore but to deal with these challenges, we often discover what we stand for, what we will not stand for. We discover our strengths, our character.
We discover ourselves . . .
Blessings,
Vicki
Vicki Hinze
www.vickihinze.com
The stork has landed...
I'll be out a few days! :)
Blessings,
Vicki
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Americans have a way about them.
They can be preoccupied, put things on ignore, or even be apathetic, but when disaster strikes, they pull together and strive to meet needs.
We saw it after 9/11. Countless acts of mercy and compassion. Caring and comforting, whispering shouts of hope.
Throughout our history, Americans rise to challenges, and not just our own.
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As human beings, we snip phrases like “S/he’s got the bug.”
We might mean a virus (very much on my mind as one’s laid me low for the past four days) or we might mean an intense interest in something like writing or photography or a desire for a new car.
Having the bug isn’t limited to any one thing, of course. I remember back in high school, one of our children getting the bug on oceanography. He was mesmerized by it and that interest impacted the direction of his life. (The lesson shared is that in some lifelong interests can and do develop early.)
Many of us get the bug to write. It manifests . . . READ MORE . . .
