First and foremost I hope, in the way of being prepared, that you are all prepared for eternity. Since eternity lasts so much longer then our time here on earth it should be the most important thing that one prepares for. So if Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, please answer! Do not let the seriousness of salvation to be over looked or over shadowed, by anything we may fritter or fret over in this life. We are but a vapor in the wind.
I have not clearly laid out the way of salvation here, if you need me to do that I'd be more then happy to, just e-mail me! :)
And now to the matter at hand, a small one when compared to everlasting life, but one that we need to look at was we spend our days here, waiting and doing the Lord's work!
What would you do if the power as out for 3 days or more? If it happened right now, I can honestly tell you my family would not make it.
(Of course the Lord does provide all our needs, so I am fairly certain that He would provide a way for us to survive if He really wanted us too. Now back to the story.)
We don't have any water stored. I've thought of it, but with all the talk of plastic poisonous bottles, how safe is it to leave water in those plastic containers?
I only have an electric can opener so I guess we can forget about eating all those canned goods we've bought.
I store most of our extra food in the freezer. With no power that would all go bad within a couple days.
I having been reading little bits from the Homestead Revival gal. I love her ideas. I want to do all of it, of course I probably won't.
Now she's is planning for 3 or more months off the "grid". That's too big for me to even think about right now, although it would make a good long time goal.
I heard once that you should have at least enough water and supplies to get you and your family through 3 days with out electricity or help. That's a very doable goal for me right now. I think the next time I'm grocery shopping I'm going to buy water. I will cringe thinking about those BPAs and such in the plastic, but it beats dying of dehydration! Don't forget the can opener! I need a non-electric one. Then we can eat those cans of beans!
Water and can opener, my first plan of preparedness!
Well besides Salvation that is!
It seems these days we hear a lot about "sustainability". Talk about a world food shortage, and don't forget to eat organic.
It does make good sense to be able to feed yourself and your family, no matter what's going on at the grocery store or in the world.
To live a "simple" life is not really what it sounds like. Things are not necessarily easy or simple and often will actually cost a lot of elbow grease and time. Some good old fashioned hard work will help you live the simple life.
Not that hard work is bad by any means,but you first need to evaluate how much you are willing to do, and where you are going to get the time to do it.
I love the idea of having fresh eggs right here on my back lawn. We have some bantam chickens coming this spring and when they are mature enough they will give us tiny little eggs. If we find that these eggs are not sufficient for our family we may have a bunch of Bantam pets. The idea is that we are starting small.
I have been itching to start a garden on my land, but that may not be the best use of my yard. You see my sweet Mother-in-love lives down the road a few blocks and has a huge garden. We have been more then welcomed in joining her to plant, weed and harvest over the years and we have. I have always been grateful for the garden and the wisdom cultivated there from the experienced gardeners, Mom and Dad.
Starting my own garden with one so close at hand would not be the best use of our space, I think.
My friend B sent this clip to me and I encourage everyone to visit the website Real food guide by Hellmans
Ok I'm having trouble posting the video clip, but you can watch it on the Hellmans website.
The jest of it is to eat Canadian produce, we import way more then we export.
One thing I think I will do is start a herb and lettuce garden. Next year, when we're use to having chickens, I'm going to ask Josh to build me a little green house! Or maybe I'll ask for a miniature dairy goat!:)
