I Read My Bible

I read my Bible, and Proverbs 22:3 tells me: “The prudent man forsees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.”

I read the news. The economy is improving, they say. It's what they want us to believe. I watch the things happening around me and I know that isn't true. If it gets better it will get worse first. I grocery shop a little more. I store away canned goods and beans and rice and spices and so many things I take for granted now.

I read the news. Floods compromise drinking water, and over and over again grocery stores run out of water, and otherwise rational human beings scrap over it like wild animals over a fresh kill. I buy an extra case of it each time I stop at the store, and I learn how to purify questionable water with filtering, boiling and chemical tablets. I learn how to dig a well.

I read the news. North Korea threatens us with nuclear retaliation in response to naval exercises we're conducting there. I learn that my family and I could survive nuclear fall-out, and I scribble down sketches of how we could live in our laundry room for several days.

I read the news. Violence is on the rise. Homes are invaded, people are killed, or worse. I remind my husband to clean the guns, and we spend a day at the gun range. He teaches the girls about firearms safety.

I read the news. The Grid Act is dumped by the Senate. I set out to learn all I can about EMP. I read One Second After by William Forstchen, and I am afraid.

I read my Bible. 2 Timothy 1:7 tells me: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

And I am no longer afraid, but strengthened and comforted, and I go on reading, and learning, and preparing.


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