Getting Started

Wondering why I started a blog on preparedness and such when there is already so much available?  I’m still wondering myself.

Some possible excuses I am trying to convince myself it is worth it for adding to the already lifetime’s worth of preparedness information:   Possibility #1:  I wanted a place to share local deals.  (I find that many of the food storage deals sites are based out in the west, and so except for online deals, many of the deals aren’t applicable to those in the southeast.)  Possibility #2:  I needed an outlet for my zeal for all things preparedness.  Possibility #3:  It’s possible, too, that I finally took advice from people at church to start a blog.  Possibility #4:  I’m crazy.  (more likely a probability than a possibility)  

Why am I doing this?  all of the above.

Ready to get buzzy?  “Wise people learn from experience, wiser people learn from others experience.”  ---source unknown.

I heard this quote many years ago, but it has stuck with me, like pollen to bee legs.  We all have those “I need to touch the toaster myself” moments, where we have to try things ourselves.  Sometimes this is to our benefit and sometimes not, it usually depends on whether a person who loves us gave us a blessing or a warning before us trying to follow through with the action.  If it is in a warning voice, it tends to be that we are the wiser if we learn from others experience and not our own.  We have warning voices.  We have prophets and apostles who warn us against the days spoken of in the scriptures, days of calamity, scarcity and wickedness.  Their same voice can and is that of blessing when we decide to obey and do the things we are asked.  What is one of those blessings?  “...If ye are prepared ye shall not fear.”  (D&C 38:30)  Peace.

I know that when we obey the commandments, when we prepare ourselves and our family spiritually and temporally, we will have peace and joy in life despite the trials that come our way.  Recently, the saints in Joplin and many other tornado devastated areas were tested, they lost the temporal preparations they had made, but because of the spiritual foundations they set, ones of obedience and faith, they have been able to and are moving forward.  See their story here.

So how prepared are you? Temporally, spiritually?  Start where you are and move forward.  The first step is to start, and every step thereafter is to continue.