BarredBuff
El Presidente de Pollo
I'll have to admit that for the past five or six years, I've not been as zealous for preparedness as I used to be. However, for the last several months, my zeal has increased for it. I think the current events of the day have pushed me to that point. I feel like, today, we are at place where say everything is better, but it really is not. We give the illusion of safety and improvement, but we are far from it.
1. The moral decay has just stank worse, and increased.
2. The lack of decency in politics, news media, institutions, etcetera has increased.
3. We have leading, major political candidates that endorse an economic system that destroys freedom (while promising so much) in many facets of life. I feel like we are an election away from terrible tax increases, and a violation of freedoms.
4. We have seen periodic military escalations in high risk areas that could quickly re-escalate.
5. I have experienced the worst couple of years for home food production since I started this a decade ago. Last year, my garden failed worse than ever despite my best efforts to start it right.
6. We have seen misinformation from all political and social factions. What can we really trust in secular media?
7. Now, we have the uncertainty and threat with the Coronavirus. It's origins and work of the Chinese government worry me more than an actual pandemic.
So, personally, I do not have any everlasting fears about this present age. I know that God will keep me and protect me through it all. However, my question is what can we ALL do, in wisdom and integrity, do to be better stewards in a time that seems more bleak and dreary?
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man." Proverbs 6:6-11
"Take therefor no though for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matthew 6:34
1. The moral decay has just stank worse, and increased.
2. The lack of decency in politics, news media, institutions, etcetera has increased.
3. We have leading, major political candidates that endorse an economic system that destroys freedom (while promising so much) in many facets of life. I feel like we are an election away from terrible tax increases, and a violation of freedoms.
4. We have seen periodic military escalations in high risk areas that could quickly re-escalate.
5. I have experienced the worst couple of years for home food production since I started this a decade ago. Last year, my garden failed worse than ever despite my best efforts to start it right.
6. We have seen misinformation from all political and social factions. What can we really trust in secular media?
7. Now, we have the uncertainty and threat with the Coronavirus. It's origins and work of the Chinese government worry me more than an actual pandemic.
So, personally, I do not have any everlasting fears about this present age. I know that God will keep me and protect me through it all. However, my question is what can we ALL do, in wisdom and integrity, do to be better stewards in a time that seems more bleak and dreary?
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth, and thy want as an armed man." Proverbs 6:6-11
"Take therefor no though for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matthew 6:34