Are you optimistic about the New Year? Do you say “good riddance” to 2009 while looking forward to 2010? How about the idea of starting a whole new decade? I noted with interest the fact that Time Magazine called the last ten years the “decade of sorrows” and said it was “one heart-breaking disaster after another.” How true, and that was certainly the case for me and my family. If I was superstitious, I would have sworn I’d broken a mirror and been cursed with seven years of bad luck. Except the bad luck didn’t stop after the seventh year! Kind of ironic when we were so excited about a new millennium, to have it start out like this. Well, at least it can’t get any worse, right? Unfortunately it can, but let’s hope that doesn’t happen. And even if the bad times do last a long time, you have to remember that they won’t last forever. For everything there is a season. Good times and bad times come and go, like the ebb and flow of an ocean tide. So no matter what, there is always hope. That’s one thing that can never be taken away. Let’s just hope our luck changes one of these days. Blessings to you all and best wishes for a happy, healthy new year!
A Wish for the World
May the year ahead bring
health and happiness;
hearts that love each other;
strength and perseverance;
people helping one another;
a renaissance of values such
as family, faith, and freedom;
the spirit of God within us
as a living temple for Him;
children safe from any injury;
forgiveness of the past;
no more terror, war or poverty;
and peace on earth at last.
(c)2000 by Teri Ann Berg Olsen
