Today is the first day of National Preparedness Month.  It's been over a year since we tackled the concept of preparedness at the 2009 summer RENEWAL series.  How are you doing on your preparedness plan?

It's always easy to have an initial knee-jerk reaction to teaching like preparedness.   Often going a bit over-board at the start.  Remember the core message of that teaching . . . 'Live a life-style of preparedness'.

If you have tapped into your reserves and not replaced them over the last year, you might want to begin a list to get those reserve stocks back up.  The economic smoke-and-mirrors of the last two years is beginning to clear. The economy was propped up by racking up huge debt and printing money.  Nothing fundamentally has changed from two years ago when the market dive-bombed.  Except we are now fundamentally worse off than before all the 'solutions' were tried.  Tough times may have been staved off for the short run, but they are still going to catch up to all of us.

Even if you don't agree with me about what is coming, in the way of the economy, there will likely be snowstorms, ice-storms and power outages in the next six months. Get prepared, even if just for those likelihoods.

Please consider taking some time this Labor Day Weekend and take assessment of your plan . . . and how you are doing in implementing it.  I realize that many of us hope for a Feast of Trumpets' catching away, and therefore the plan gets shifted until afterward.  I have my list ready for purchase and implementation right after Trumpets, in case this is not the year of our departure.  Please join me in making a necessary yearly assessment.  You will never be sorry for being prepared, but would sorely regret if you needed to be . . . and weren't.