Last week as I was winding down my work year before holiday break, I was listening to NPR radio and got interested in the discussion which was reviewing the events of this last decade. Wow, that is true, 10 years have passed in the new 21st century!
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/12/the-end-of-the-00s?autostart=true
One panelist on the NPR show called 2000’s the “Flim-Flam decade”…..with many scandals, corruption and misrepresentations, which left many of us feeling swindled. Another panelist even called this the “decade from hell”. Maybe for us Baby Boomers who grew up in the post WWII "prosperous times", but I doubt this was “hell” for those who have lived through the 1930’s and 40’s.
Other discussion points revolved around:
* The loss of faith in institutions, banks, government.
* Technology has people taking control, grassroots movement on Internet and blogs.
* The facts and truth are blurred with opinions.
* End of the middle class.
* End of the American empire
This decade reminds me personally of the words to a song I like by Peter Himmelman called “Easy to be Broken” ….. some of the words are ......."The static get applauded and the truth gets hushed….. Everyone’s craving what nobody needs….the world is built on broken promises…… we’ve developed a heart of stone. …. It’s so easy to be broken"
I believe that most of these types of challenges we have faced for the last 10 years have happened since the beginning of time, just in a new form for us…. and maybe we all are just waking up to the truth of our fallen state we live in. Our human world has always been in a “broken” state.
But with these challenges comes opportunity…. And with brokenness comes the opportunity for healing.
At the start of this new year, I’ll try to remember the good things which happened in this last decade:
* Our 2000 to 2001 house addition.
* There was no end of the world on eve of Y2K
* Greg’s new job in 2000 in Des Moines and 2007 in Kansas City
* Opportunity to travel to Europe 2000 and 2005
* Fun train trips to Oregon and Arizona
* Grand Canyon trip
* New friends!
and all the small loving moments that touched my heart deeply.
Here's wishing more love, peace and healing in 2010!
(another new peace art work of mine)
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