This Mom’s Survival Instincts

Have I told you about my Scarlett O’Hara moment?  It was a couple of years ago when a hurricane was just hours away from coastal Florida.  The news video showed a bewildered looking woman staring at empty grocery store shelves.  At that moment I said, “As God is my witness, that will never be me!”  I vowed to never be the woman on TV who hadn’t given a serious thought of preparing for a disaster and now stood, vulnerable, to whatever dangers lay ahead.

Taking steps to be prepared for various emergency situations or a significant downturn in our economy is simply prudent.  I trust my intuition and can list at least a dozen times when I ignored it and paid a price.  Not this time.

Now, not everyone in my circle of friends and family think I’m 100% sane when I bring up the topic of preparedness!  Okay, I’m just the tiniest bit pessimistic about our economy, and buying dozens of cans of soup, tuna, and tomatoes is now a way of life.  I don’t even want to tell you how much toilet paper I have stored!  A little crazy?  Maybe!

Ignoring the naysayers has been easy, though, because I’m driven by my desire to protect and provide for my family.  My intuition tells me that all is not well in our world.  If I have doubts about my sanity, I just look around.  Within my own circle of friends there are those who have lost jobs, families who have been without a steady income for a year or more and some who have lost their homes.  Daily headlines report that, perhaps, the worst is yet to come.  Add to that a variety of national security threats and crazy, unpredictable weather, I’d say it’s my non-prepared friends who are irrational! 

Don’t ignore what your intuition, what your instincts are telling you to do.  If it’s storing up water for an emergency, take steps tomorrow to buy those water barrels.  Have you been stocking up on food half-heartedly?  If your instincts are saying, “We need to have at least three month’s worth of food…”, don’t delay.  You can find simple steps to take toward preparedness throughout my blog.  Trust your gut, mom.  Believe in your intuition.   

On that note, I want to leave you with a precious poem by Jill Lemming that describes my mother’s heart and yours’, too, I’ll bet.

A Mother’s Intuition
  by: Jill Lemming,

The strength of every mother
comes alive when called upon…
to protect her precious children
when she feels there’s something wrong.

This instinct comes from heaven
and it’s there until she dies…
a mother “feels” her children’s pain,
and hears each tear they cry.

If you try to hide your worries
from your mother’s tender care,
her intuition WILL kick in…
when you need her, she’ll be there.

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