Happy New Year 2010

Well, it's a new month, new decade, and new year. A friend of mine recently lost his grandmother at the age of 110. She had lived in 3 centuries, and parts of 12 decades. Can you imagine all the changes she saw? She would have been born in 1899. Just think of her seeing her first automobile all the way to the space shuttle. All the way from the first radio and TV to hand held computers. From crank telephones where you told an actual operator who you were calling to teeny tiny cell phones. I think I've seen a lot of changes in my own life, and I'm less than half her age. My first cell phone (mobile phone) was about the size of a lunch box and sat on the console in my car when I went on my rural mail route. I got 15 minutes a month for $15 and my husband dared to say I "wasn't worth that much money". He thought it was a wasteful expense. Now our cell phone bill is over $100 a month and all 3 of us carry one of those little buggers in our pockets. I grew up without TV due to religious reasons, and you have no idea how often I wish we still didn't have one. I hate how it is on constantly when the others are home. I hate the Dish that brings in so many poor choices of programming. I remember when I was a teen trying to shape up, how I'd lie on the bed or floor and do sit ups and leg lifts and etc. till my muscles screamed for reprieve. Now my daughter has a Wii and Wii fit plus. She does hula hoops and marches in a band and does boxing and kung fu and yoga and step aerobics all without leaving her little balance board in the middle of the livingroom floor. Then when she gets done it automatically weighs her and tells her what her BMI is and even graphs it for her so she can see how she's making progress toward her goal. Do you remember the little "wing windows" on cars? Not sure why I just thought of them, but I did. So much has changed since I was born in 1958. I used to sit and write letters by hand and stick a stamp on the envelope and mail it off to my pen pal. Now I just update my blog and figure she'll check it when she has time. I used to find out what was going on in the lives of my cousins when Grandma came to visit us and told us the latest news. Now I can get on facebook and in no time at all I know what my cousins are doing today and what they had for supper last night and what their kids are up to. I can even see photos and videos of them at any given time. I wonder what this decade will bring our way. More wars? or peace? What new technology that we can't live without? Births? Deaths? Sickness? Health? Marriages? Divorces? Whatever it brings, I want to walk closer to my Lord in 10 years than I do now.