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2016 Home For the Holidays
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS November 23, 2016 Page 17
Ethan and Nicole Hoinacki have experienced
this “comfort with uncertainty” firsthand.
It began last year when they learned their
unborn daughter was dealing with a major
health issue with an uncertain diagnosis.
A year later the Hoinacki’s feel grateful
because Sadie is a healthy vibrant toddler.
A scary diagnosis
Just weeks before Sadie’s birth, a sonogram
showed a mass of blood vessels in her
abdomen; which is abnormal. Doctors told
them she would need surgery immediately
after birth.
Sadie had an Arteriovenous malformation
(AVM), an abnormal connection between the
arteries and veins.
at the
holidays
Being
GRATEFUL
Rabbi Chava Bahle calls gratitude “a stance
of conscious, humble appreciation.”
Rabbi Bahle says, “In Hebrew, the word is
actually related to the concept of surrender,
or letting go. And it carries an invitation for
us to recognize that life is complicated and
that it doesn’t always go the way we want.
“What happens when we experience an
appreciation of something, is it moves us
to a place of recognition where we can see
that sometimes good things happen and
sometimes bad things happen.
“So, inherent in the idea of gratitude is a
comfort with uncertainty.”
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By Angela Reiners