As we enter the new year, the big thing on our minds is the state of our economy. Have we seen the worst of it? Or is the worst yet to come? I like to think of it as a glass that's half full. Is that a light at the end of the tunnel? Or is it a train headed at us? We should all band together and pray that the worst is indeed past us. We need to look at 2009 being fine! The rest of the world may be in a recession but we, here in Brunswick and The Golden Isles, refuse to participate. My friend Terry Dickson had a nice way of putting it all in perspective in yesterday's Georgia Times Union newspaper.

"Everyone is scared to death. The recession will deepen, more people will lose jobs and businesses will close, we're told.
When things get bad, my mother always says, "I don't know what people are going to do."
None of us does. But we've always done something and we will again.
The safest guy in town is in jail in solitary confinement. But he would trade places in a heartbeat with the man scraping to make a car payment.
It's going to be hard not to get discouraged as the bad news piles up. We can shrug it all off in the daytime when we're busy, but it's like spending the night at Grandma's house as a kid. When you're lying in bed, the old house pops and creaks and the rose bush outside the window becomes a guy with an ax.
When that bad news creeps into your sleep, think of all the good stuff in your life, the kids sleeping across the hall, a dog that loves you or a friend who laughs at your jokes."

Thanks Terry for brightening our day!