The Credit Crunch
What is life like in Spain we are often asked? In many ways very different to life in Britain, but at other times so similar.
How is the credit crunch affecting your lifestyle? Petrol and food prices rising sharply, value of property plumetting, usual holiday plans being curbed etc. In Spain these issues are affecting Spaniards and especially immigrants, where the building market is seeing it’s biggest slump. In the month of August 100,000 people laid off, taking the total in the last year to 1/2 million. Many in the building and constuction sector. The government is trying to devise relocation schemes to enable people to find new suitable employment. Not easy.
What is happening where you are? What are the pressures your friends and neighbours are feeling? Do you have words to encourage them or like me do you often feel heavy hearted talking about these issues. No pat answers please, but we can and must sieve through the issues to find the biblical principles for hope and future, despite often depressing and grim realities infront of our eyes. Jesus did it beautifully, often with tears, prayer, but always with love and a heart that knew the real heart of the stuggle of mankind to find peace and happiness. The answer for which only lies in him.
As challenging and difficult as this year is in many ways, lets use it as a time to go back to basics and dig deep to find water, living water.
