Are You Prepared?

I have heard so many people talk about how prices are going up at the grocery store. I ran into someone I knew at the store recently and they said that almost everything that they bought had gone up by 20% or more. She said it had gone up that much in just one week. I had another friend tell me that she can't remember ever spending as much as she did this last time she was at the grocery store. She hardly bought anything junk food, and spent over $250. I have been telling people at my co-op for over a year to stock up on wheat because the prices are going to go sky high. I just received the flyer with the monthly specials from my co-op. They always have bits of news at the end of the specials. Here is what it said this month. "The international market for both conventional and organic grain has gone haywire. The misplaced emphasis on grain ethanol (as opposed to sugar ethanol in Brazil) and growing foreign markets have resulted in record high prices for conventional grains which also forces up organic prices. Prices for organic milling wheat are up 300% from last year! Almost every other grain has gone up and is in scarce supply. The only grain that has not shot up in price as much is rice so get it while it's cheaper. Worldwide demand and growing foreign economies are literally eating up world grain markets so prices are rising and may stay high for a year, or years to come. The current economic craziness means that food, worldwide, will become an issue (or, a bigger one) in the years to come. Perhaps, when the dust settles, farmers and food workers will regain the respected spot in society that they deserve." You need to be stocking up on your grains now. Are prices going up where you are? If so, are they going up a lot or just a little? Are you prepared or preparing for upcoming shortages?

I still feel that more than anything we need to be prepared spiritually. I want to stock up on God's Word. I need to get back to my memorization I was doing. I want to have large portions of the Bible memorized. Some day that might be the only Bibles we have. If you haven't noticed look around. Christians are the only ones that you can say bad things about and the media and government don't care. If you pick on any other group because of race, religion or lifestyle and everyone screams. We as Christians need to sit up and take notice. We need to make sure that we are prepared for what may come.

Well, here is my knitting sampler. I am still not done. Ginny has been a BIG help to me. I have bugged her to death. She is very patient and encouraging with me. I have done several types of ribbing. The little pink square is a sweatshirt style pocket. All the other pink is just different sorts of striping. I can't wait to get to the fair isle part.