It's hard to put food on the table or in the deep pantry if you don't want to work

I guess if there's one gripe I have about my new job, it's not the long hours--it's that so many people there seem willing to not work. It's a factory job, and there's no guarantee from one day to the next that there will be enough work for all employees on any given shift. Last Monday, 15 minutes after the 100+ employees on our shift clocked in, the supervisor came around and said that she only needed about 20 people and asked for volunteers to leave. More than 70 people volunteered right then to go home. I don't know about you, but I can't afford to not work, and I don't know how anyone else can, either. Especially when it comes to long-term planning with food storage and any other such preparedness efforts, diligence in working or looking for work is imperative. Without such diligence, you're going to get really hungry very soon.

End of rant. My alarm is going off in less than six hours, so I need to get some sleep. I have a lot of work to do tomorrow. ;)

The Biblical mandate for charity, both in good times and bad

Some of you may have noticed one of the links in my blogroll from SurvivalBlog.com. I have a huge amount of respect for that site's webmaster, Jim Rawles, for his insistence on Biblical morality and his refusal to compromise what he believes when it comes to preparedness, but even more important in my opinion are his comments on the Biblical mandate for charity. The link below is well worth checking out, and I hope it will lead to a bit of soul-searching for each of us as we continue in preparedness-related activities. Those of us who are Christ's followers should always view what we're doing through the Word that He has given us, even and especially when things get bad. I hope this link will challenge each of you:

Christian Charity--Now, and Post-TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)