I'm sitting on my couch thinking about what 2010 might be like.
It's almost comical to think that when I thought of 2010 as a kid, I expected a completely different world. I think of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, where they had a future sequence. Everyone was in a space suit, driving a space ship around a futuristic sort of world. After making a drive to East Texas earlier this week, I'm reminded just how that is NOT the case at all. Everything I remember is pretty much the same way I remember it. 2010, in that sense, is not nearly as daunting.
Considering the entire landscape however - the financial, political and social concerns as 2010 dawns - it's a pretty scary animal. I have been fortunate enough to have steady employment through a very unstable time over this past year. Many of my friends have not. And, as a nation, we're still free while so many are not.
I'm thankful for everything I had in 2009 but I'm very much aware of what I have to be thankful for in 2010, as well as the consideration of those who have not been as fortunate as me.
God help us all in 2010.
