So, a friend asks me what should we do about our living situations in relation to to the weather turning bad.

First and foremost: preparation is always a good idea for any kind of potential hard times ahead.  Those that plan ahead, are like soldiers who train – they’re in a better position to face the challenges that can come forth.  God does not give us challenges without first giving us what is needed to face the challenges.  We are  here to grow our spiritual muscles, gain in understanding, learn to cooperate and build, strive to enrich our hearts and souls, and develop our relationships to God, to ourselves and to each other.

Let us strive to have faith in God, have faith in ourselves, and have faith in others.

Address several things:
health
habitat
heat
food
water
electricity

The Internet is a wealth of information for preparation for problems.  I won’t even try to duplicate it here.

We learn, if we’re willing, not from words as much as we do from living. Living includes actions, trying, mistakes, willingness, open-mindedness, questions, and so much more than mere words. I learn from my life. Many times I have looked back on the life and lives I’ve lived, and wished I had done better at living my life at that time. I look back and wish I had learned more so that I would have lived my life a better way.

And now I don’t want to arrive at tomorrow and think, “I wish I would have learned something yesterday to have lived my life better yesterday.” This can only mean that today is where I work to learn about my life – to learn about what is important to me – to learn about my relationship to myself, to God and to all of the world plus. Today is when I can examine myself. Today is when I can ask my questions to me. Today is when I can pray or meditate. Today is when I can open my heart or open my mind. Today, right now, is the moment I have.

And this calls for me to dig in, to break new ground, to act in some way that has been different, to have my actions speak, to live from my heart, to build from a better blueprint in my mind, all of which hopefully leads to living a life with more effort, and more that I offer to myself and to those in my life.

There is no use in looking back on my life, if it serves only to support the same old crap. If I choose to learn nothing, why bother examining any of my life. I will be the same person on the day I die that I was when I was born – nothing learned, nothing gained. The world will not be a better place because I lived. I will not be a better person because I lived. I would not have given myself anything of worth.

But, in me is the drive to love, to be loved, to live, to grow, to gain, to improve, to find more, to understand, to contribute, and to know me. In me, is the desire to listen to this drive, because it comes from some part of me, from inside me. So, I listen and strive to do something about this.

I don’t strive to accomplish great things over many years of my life. I strive only to pick up a shovel, and shovel a few pounds of dirt a day to build a new river to flow through. And in doing so, sometimes by choosing, today, to shovel a few shovel-fulls of dirt, I’ve looked back and seen that there’s a ditch and a creek growing behind me. It intrigues me that this must be how God does things sometimes. God must have dug and dug each day, and one day, turned around, looked behind Him, and seen the Grand Canyon. I figure God looked down at the shovel in His hands and said, “Wow! It was worth it.”

That’s what I think could be how I learn something from my life today. I have learned and I have grown in my own way. I’ve also had days when I’ve slept in. But, less and less, do I look back at my past and wish I had been in a better place back then. More and more do I look at my present and think “Wow, I learned something interesting today. What can I do with this?”

Maybe one day, I’ll look back at the life I live, trying to learn what I can, and live from what I learn. Perhaps, I’ll see my “Grand Canyon,” look back at the shovel in my hands and say, “Wow. It’s been worth it.” But, even if I don’t reach that far, today I know I’ve answered to a part of me who wants to love more, to live more, to learn more, to be more, and to know me more.

Sometimes, I still need to sleep in.

As I’ve said before, the energy associated with 2012 will come to an end near the end of February, 2013.  With regards to the effects on the human race, think of this date relating to the human race in the same way one would think of as a patient who has had cancer.  With 12/21/2012 being the day the doctor walks into the hospital room and says that the cancer is finished, healed, eradicated and gone from the body.  While that day can be compared to 12/21/2012, the recuperation process will be the days, months, and years that follow.

A cancer patient who has gotten the word that the cancer is removed, doesn’t jump out of bed and run a marathon.  There is a slow and gradual rebuilding of the body from the process just finished.  It could take a long time for the person to wake up from the sleep-induced healing process.  It can take a long time for the body to recover, and it can take a long time for the person to get their strength back.  And it can take a long time before a person returns to their home and then again to return to some type of life that was similar to before the illness took hold.

This is a long process for the human race, but the turning point is happening.  Dec 21, 2012 will not see a great destruction or cataclism.  Just a gentle, still, small, voice saying, “It is done.”

A great resting period will take place from 12/21/12 to the end of February, 2013, and it will be 4 years before we begin to see some progress towards the hope for the future.  From then on, it all depends on many factors, but the journey returning to an awareness of our spiritual identity will progress further.

In addition, the progress will be uniquely different for each soul.  Since each person is in a different place within their spiritual development, the progress will represent and display the differences.

Side note: Examples of the progress – still using the “healing cancer” metaphor – the next 190 years or so will be a time that could be thought of as a time for “strengthening the body” (again with the cancer metaphor.)  This will be a time of strengthening the awareness of spirit as a reality.  The following 300 years after that then will be “getting back into the world” (as a healed patient might do.)  This time will be noted mostly by the presence of active spiritual endeavors where the spiritual forces will be actively manifesting in the world.

Why are these times so long?  In reality, they aren’t long for the human race – they are quick.  For an individual, they would be long, but for the human race as a whole, this is short.  Consider the social development of the last 500 years.  While the next 500 will be exponential compared to the last 500, we can see that very distinct progress was made steadily and consistently.  Very distinct and famous contributary steps happened during the last 500 years to help social, intellectual, spiritual and psychological evolution.  Scientific discoveries, religious freedoms, social reforms and the like happened in very definitive ways.

Likewise, we will see many distinct changes happen during the next 500 years, with seriously distinct transitions happening around the 2200 mark.  Read some of my other predictions to see what I site.

Side note:  We will have interplanetary travel this century.  We will also begin inter-star-system travel this century (but only in small numbers at first.)  In the centuries that follow, millions will go to other star systems and colonies will be established on other planets.  This process will bring it’s own benefits and detriments.  This will not be without it’s own problems.

I’m a big supporter of personal gardening and purchasing local vegetables and fruits.  This is because as time goes on, we’re not going to see food prices go down.  We’re going to be seeing food prices going up.  I’m seeing noticeable price increases in 2013 from where they are in 2012.  While many are predicting fall 2012 prices to go up with food,  I am not seeing considerable price increases way above what we’re used to, until the impact of the 2012 problems hits the markets in 2013.

The food price increase of 2013 will be the result of the problems they’re having in the midwest this year.  This years crops or difficulties with  them will affect next years prices more than the current prices except for the impact of speculating and hording.

In the summer of 2014, I see food prices come down some but not a lot.  The winter (Jan & Feb) of 2014 will be very bad and will then contribute to more food problems for many people who don’t grow their own food or don’t purchase locally.  The factory farm /large producers will be the ones whose crops will be affected by the winter and whose products will drive the prices the most.

PS.  I have my own garden and cover it with a plastic structure during the winter to keep the garden producing.

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With the shift in what has happened with our future, i.e. the election of Barack Obama, the gas prices are also affected by this.  I’m currently not seeing the high gas prices I had seen before.  I see gas prices going up slowly in 2009, to around $2.60 by the end of the year.  In 2010, up to around $3.25/gal to $3.50, and, by 2011, I still see incidences of $4/gallon.  I no longer see any spiking like I had before.

And I will say that this can change again, so if this future changes again, I’ll keep posting.  I apologize, but for me, trying to read the future of gas prices is like trying to read where a water hose that is out of control is going to spray next.  There are many possibilities.  I think the above paragraph is close to being generally accurate.

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