Meg Logan’s Blog

Oh dooms day predictions have always been around. Heck there’s one in the back of your Bible… but the end of the world hasn’t happened yet, so we are all safe right? Well, let’s just think, what would happen if the end of days happened in OUR lifetime?

I can hear it now, people are saying “the rapture”, well… lets just say we are wrong abotu rapture happening before those last years? what if it happens after? Or what if the world gets horribly out of our current comfort zone well before the rapture? How would you survive?

Could you survive a famine? Could you be so self sufficient as to support your family and local community through farming and community organization? If the Great Depression were to happen again, how many of you can make your own clothes? (without electricity) or grow enough food to survive? or cook without electricity? or grind your own flour or corn meal? How many of us really understand what a worldwide economic failure would look like?

I like to think I could survive… then I start thinking about things like fresh water, growing my own food without a tiller, without buying seeds. Or things like making and washing my own clothes without detergent? (does anyone out there know how to make lye?) How would we keep the house warm enough in the winter without electricity, or oil, or a wood burning stove? Heck, even if I had the stove, I have no wood!

So, lets say I can raise chickens, and I have a cow, and I can grow veggies and a bit of fruit. Still the prospects aren’t that good. The amount of grain needed to produce one loaf of bread is outrageous. So no more bread, no more beef, no more SUGAR. Could you imagine what we would eat? I would have to re-learn how to cook, supposing I have some way of getting heat at all… fire or stove..

So here is another scenario. If I managed to make my measly 1.75 acres produce enough for my family, lets say I had a heads up about this economic disaster so I installed some solar panels, and I now have enough energy to cook one hot meal a day, plus maybe run a sewing machine for an hour or so. Lets say my family manages to be completely self sustaining. What about the other people around me? My neighbors, having not been prepared for such a disaster would see that I was the only person around with any energy/electricty, and the only family with enough food. What do you think they might do when they are starving? I’m thinking they are going to bring out the guns, and take by force what I so carefully conserved. So now, even if we were completely self sustaining, how is it that we could protect ourselves from the locals who are starving to death?

Sure sure, we could teach them how to grow food, we could help them get started, but that first year is going to be mighty devastating. People will hear miles away that there is food here, they will come to find a way to feed their family. You think God would work some miracles like feeding the five thousand? Think He will keep my garden producing like the pots of oil?

I think that is the only way survival would be possible. MIRACLES. Thank God I trust Him and have faith in Him otherwise I might be near to panic by now just thinking on the possibilities.

well I know this was a bit off my normal track. I had to make somre sort of post! I said I would try to post everyday! So since I sometimes day dream, and wonder about these things, i thought it would make for interesting fodder. Do you ever think on this sort of stuff?

Meg