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Spring is full upon us where we are and I have the itch to dig in the dirt.  It’s making me crazy that we can’t get into the garden yet since it’s been too wet to turn.  This year, I have high hopes for a bountiful harvest. Spring is also a wonderful time for baby […]

For most Americans, the usual work week schedule has the family quite scattered around.  Dad is working one place, Mom another.  One child may be in elementary school while an older is miles away in middle school.  Have you ever contemplated how you would all get back home in an emergency? Whether it is an […]

We all have our familiar routines, things we don’t even give much thought to, but we just do out of habit. It might be the drive-thru dinner on the way home from work, the soda from the checkout fridge case, or cigarettes. I’d like to challenge you to really think about where your money goes […]

“But I can’t have chickens where I live…” This is one of the most common reasons I hear for why people don’t maintain a small flock of chickens at home.  You may be surprised just where you actually CAN have chickens. In the last few years, there has been a renewed interest in the backyard […]

Preparedness is a mindset as much as anything else.  Sure, it involves acquiring physical items to protect yourself from hunger or crime, but it is also a shift in thinking too. It is marked by considerations of the long term versus just the present, permanency and durability versus cheap and convenient.  It is the constant […]

I’ve heard an amusing assessment of the difference between boys and girls. Girls are said to look at a dangerous situation and think, “I might get hurt,” and back away. Boys, by contrast, think, “I might not,” and plow ahead. I’ve seen some of that among my own children, but then again there are no […]

The nature of emergencies is such that when you need something, you need it NOW.  In area with no cell coverage, traveling with a carload of kids is not the time to find out you have no spare tire as you stare at your flat and dusk approaches. With that in mind, we have tried […]

We are sometimes cautioned in church that we ought not to worry about tomorrow, that sleepless nights are evidence of weak faith.  While we are to cast our burdens upon Him and walk in faith, that is not the same thing as apathy or laziness. I have heard other Christians say that any form of […]

The national news seems to have the same themes every day now- the budget debate in Washington, who may run in the next presidential election, gas prices, radiation from Japan’s nuclear reactors, and wars on foreign soils with a smattering of violent crimes.  It’s easy to get immune to what should be shocking news. The […]

In our modern lives of convenience foods and disposable everything, we give little thought to the long term.  We get the cheap plastic gizmo and when it wears out, we get another.  That kind of thinking is foolhardy because it assumes an endless supply of gizmos whenever we need them.  We should not make that […]