About 2010 most of the economical prognostics say that it will be worse than 2009; Why? for many reasons:

  1. There will be new jobs, but still loose jobs. It is expected that the final balance in this sense is that there will be more jobs created than the ones lost. However, this will happen during the year, and the first 6 months of the year will be critical. We will still see many companies close down and self-employed will cease their corporate labor.
  2. Many people that lost their jobs during 2009 are and will resort to borrowing to face this situation, they will even have to resort to credit cards, family or friends loans, until they spend their “credit lines”.
    Thus, 2010 will be the year were many added to their situation of lack of economical productivity, the lacking in financing and, topping it all, they will have to face severe tensions with the banks and also with their personal relations, not only because of not having a job to allow them to produce economical resources, but because they will not be able to pay off their credit cards neither their family or friends loans.
  3. This will create small, medium and large family and friends crisis; that will be the heaviest weight that many people will have during 2010. In the following year we will see an increase in the cases of family problems, it will be a tendency that will increase the feeling of loneliness and bitterness among people.
  4. The greatest needs in familias will be employment, financement and cutting off expenses, reducing drastically the standard of living.
  5. The above will test the emotional resistance of each person. The crisis will let out the best and the worst of each one. There will be more crime, but the creativity will also rise.
  6. The security that money or consumer adiction could bring will be a broken idol by God for millions of people.
  7. At the begining there will be an increase in bitterness, depressions and anxieties in many people, then the social discontent and insecurity will rise. The consumption of ilegal and legal drugs will achieve levels never seen before. The prescriptions of tranquilizers and antidepresants will rise the stock exchange in chemists specialized in this type of drugs.
  8. It is there, at the bottom of this crisis, where everyone will have the opportunity to meditate, reconsider and regret, to start building up a different scale of values from our previous lives.
  9. This is where we will focus our work in 2010: To help the needy in the most essential
    a. With food and clothes
    b. With love and frienship
    c. With family counselling
    d. With labor counselling and for the productivity
    e. With courage, hope and faith
    f. With a life plan that will have a different epicenter to consumption and accumulation of objects
    g. Presenting the real gospel of the kingdom as a real answer to the real problems of people nowadays
  10. The year 2010 will be a year for taking care specially of those that suffer bitterness that are lead to express gossip, criticism, envy and hate to those that they see that are more estable. It will be necessary to distinguish, more than ever, among those that come with a disposition of being helped from those that come to damage, to hurt, to destroy.
  11. So in short, 2010 will be the year in which we need that God, more than ever, helps us and supplies all our needs. Lets remember that his promise remains current offering and warning:

    Matt 11:28
    Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest Matt 11:29 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls;

    1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1Tim 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
  12. My wish is that 2010 is the best year of your life, remembering that the best things are those that are acquired without money.

    Luis Sagarra Benito
 

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