Why Prepare?

After many years of insuring that my family is prepared to endure any number of emergencies, I've decided to start blogging about being prepared and preparedness in general. Why? Well I've had friends ask me to create a site and when we talk to our friends about it, they tend to want more information. At least those that are interested do. And since there is ton's of information out there about prepping, it's better if those friends can pick and choose the time and the amount of information that they want to receive.
Hence the blog. My goal is to post weekly a new articles about prepping. Sometimes the articles will be original, sometimes they will be posts from other prepping websites that I frequent. I also plan on posting a list of my favorite prepping websites on the side of this blog. Some will obviously be about prepping and others will just be resource sites, that share information beneficial to prepping sites. Some of the sites will also be government run sites (You won't believe the number of websites the government devotes to preparedness. I figure if they are concerned then so should we.)
I first became interested in prepping when I was a Boy Scout. Go figure. After all their motto is "Be Prepared!" And being raised as an 'Army Brat', we were raised socially with a preparedness mindset. We always had to be prepared to leave on a moments notice. Especially when our family was in Germany in the midst of the Cold War in the 1960's. We never knew when we might be evacuated.
It seems that we always had a 30 day supply in our pantry. This was a habit that continued when I got married. We always sought to have a good supply of food on hand.
Prepping really began to be something we focused on following Hurricane Katrina. Having lived in the Caribbean, and the Pacific we had already been through several severe storms. And having experienced earthquakes in California, we were aware that disasters could strike at any time unannounced. But it was when we saw the inability of the government to respond in a timely manner to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina that we decided that we could no longer depend on the government to be there when the next disaster struck.
And sure enough disasters have struck and people panicked. Terrorist attacks, Winter Storms, Ice Storms. And man made disasters like recessions, depressions and unemployment.
Because of these recent experiences we are certainly glad we started prepping in earnest about 5 years ago.
Now we are Christians and several of our Christian friends ask us if we are really trusting God by prepping?
(If you are not a Christian you can skip down a few paragraphs, unless you want to read what I have to say.)

The short answer is YES! If you take the time and read through the Bible you will see that prepping is Scriptural. Why even our namesake 'Noah' was a prepper. He prepared for 120 years in anticipation of God's judgment. Why God even commanded Noa in Genesis 6:21 "As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them."
The title of this blog is taken from Genesis 41. That entire chapter speaks about God raising up Joseph to help the nation of Egypt to prepare in order to insure the Israelite's survive an upcoming famine.
And for brevity's sake let me list some other Scriptures for you to jot down and keep handy in case some of your Christian friends try to excuse their lack of prepping by making you feel as if you aren't trusting God:
Proverbs 6:6-11; Proverbs 27:12; Luke 22:36; and 1 Timothy 5:8.
If we don't take time to prepare we will be unable to provide for those in need and show Christ's love. We will only be able to offer a prayer and turn people away with empty bellies. When we don't take time to prepare we become dependent on those who have what we need.
Besides in light of the way things appear to be heading it seems that the wise person would be doing everything they can to be prepared as possible. Not to mention the various natural disasters that strike without warning. So no matter your reason, get started today. Don't get overwhelmed. Start by making plans to survive for a week or two without outside help and then go on from there.
For our part, we will try and provide blog posts to help you do just that. This blog will cover everything from prepping for Earthquakes and Tornadoes to Winter storms and Power Outages, as well as things that may seem unthinkable. Hope you decide to be a prepper, if you're not already.