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Decisions require us to look at what is but also at what is possible. If what is lacks potential and we settle for it, we neither recognize nor value our purpose, and if we do not value our purpose, then who shall?
–Vicki Hinze
Turn Your View Around
© 2012, Vicki Hinze WARNING: This is a no-edit zone…
Bad things happen. But often with perspective, we see that they weren’t worthless. Those bad things protected, prevented worse, prepared us with the wisdom of experience, offered us insights from which we gained wisdom. When bad things happen, don’t despair. Turn your view around and seek the good. In doing so, you negate the need for a repeat and you unearth gems.
Bell Bridge Books just let me know that Beyond the Misty Shore, Seascape Trilogy, Book 1, is FREE on Kindle 12/22-12/25.
This is a general market novel written in 1995. It’s romantic suspense with a whimsical metaphysical (paranormal) element that is gentle.
The stories take place at Seascape Inn, aka the Healing House.
If you’d like to download a FREE copy, here’s the URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-The-Misty-Shore-ebook/dp/B005WECDJA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_9
If you don’t have a Kindle, you’re not left out. Amazon has a free app for reading on your phone or computer. You can get the app at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=dig_arl_box?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771
Blessings and enjoy!
Vicki
Create Your Perfect Life
Plant one foot firmly on the ground and one foot firmly in the clouds.
Be responsible and always dare to dream.
The life you create will not be perfect.
It will be perfectly yours.
© 2011, Vicki Hinze
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An FYI: Thru 12/23/2011 Kill Zone is 99 cents
at Amazon. They included it in their “Big Deal” promotion.
Kill Zone is a General Market romantic suspense novel in the War Game Series. The other War Game novels are also discounted right now. I have no idea for how long.
War Games stories: Body Double, Double Vision, Double Dare, Total Recall (novella in Smokescreen) and Kill Zone.
When we’re really busy–or really struggling for any kind of reason–it’s easy to miss the little miracles that happen in our lives every day. When we miss them, we miss the joy and happiness they bring. We miss the pleasure and reassurance they carry. We lose.
There will always be a thousand things to do. We will always be busy. But why are we doing all we’re doing if we then lack the time or good sense to enjoy anything–including life itself?
Pause. Take a moment. Draw in a couple deep breaths. Don’t settle for just smelling the roses. Also smell their leaves and stems.
Blessings,
Vicki
© 2011, Vicki Hinze
Standing for nothing means you’ll fall for anything—and because you’re not standing, the ground is awfully close. In short order, you find yourself supine, nose down and flattened like a pancake. If that’s where you are, you’re to blame. Don’t wait for a white knight to rescue you. Rescue yourself—you have the most at stake and the greatest vested interest in you and your success. Get up and move on, wiser, more determined, more resolved. You create your future by the actions you take each and every day.
–Vicki Hinze
I viewed footage of the California park cleared of protesters last night. It’s trashed. Officers had to wear HazMat suits to vacate it. What’s left behind is a mountain of garbage and filth. The park is rendered unsafe for its intended use and purpose. It will cost a small fortune to clean up the mess and restore it: funds that California doesn’t have in its (near) bankrupt state.
So where is the logic in this activity? What good is accomplished by the people for the people? Now they’re further in debt and without a park. This benefited . . . whom? How? I see no logic in this. Nothing constructive accomplished.
Add the destruction created in other cities, the violence—fires, stabbings, rapes, murders—and one thing is clear: There is no logic and no winner, but we all lose. And what we’ve lost far exceeds the physical and material destruction inflicted.
Some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten came from a computer game at a time before there were graphics. It was called Adventure, and the advice was TINSTAAFL. I’ve always prounounced it “tins-ta-fil.” What does it mean?
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
To reap your rewards, you first must pay your dues. It was a valuable life lesson I’m grateful for still today. One we’d all benefit from hearing often.
© 2011, Vicki Hinze
THE MEANING OF THANKSGIVING is a national treasure, one that is worth recalling and reflecting on so that we don’t take it for granted or simply come to think of it as the day before Black Friday. What is offered in the day of Thanksgiving to our nation and its people is far more precious.
When we seek the truth about the holiday, there is no one better to explain it than the source, the father and first elected president of our nation.
Here, in his own words, is what President George Washington had to say about it:
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor – and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be – That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war –for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed – for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
“And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions – to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually – to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed – to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord – To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us – and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
“Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
“G.O. WASHINGTON.”
May the traditional spirit of Thanksgiving be a blessing to you and yours. And in these times that try souls and make us weary, may we remember to hold fast to an attitude of gratitude. For all our flaws and challenges, ours is an exceptional nation. At times, we lose our way, and we forget who we are. But we have the opportunity to remember today.
My special Thanksgiving prayer is that we read the words of our founder and recall who we are and, most importantly, whose we are.
Blessings,
Vicki
WARNING!
We are rapidly approaching the time of year when everyone is clearing their desks, which means, we are rapidly approaching the time of year when OUR desks are being flooded.
Gird your loins, and do your part. Clear your desk early! Holiday commitments are moving in…
–Vicki Hinze
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