A simple encouragement for this week
Not fear—but wisdom, preparation, and skill-building
Hi friend,
I’m taking a short break from publishing audiobook chapters for a week or two.
Instead, I’ve been investing time outside—preparing new garden beds, improving the soil, planting early crops, laying down mulch… and stacking two cords of firewood for next winter.
There’s something liberating about producing your own food—and even your own heat.
So here’s a simple encouragement for you this week:
If you’re able… this is the perfect time to start a garden.
Even a small one.
A few containers. A raised bed. A patch in the yard.
Not out of fear—but out of wisdom. And to build your skills.
Not as a reaction to the chaos happening in the world—but as a way of living faithfully with what God has given you.
There’s a quiet kind of peace that comes from growing your own food… from working with the rhythms God built into creation.
And in times like these, it just makes sense.
If you’re not sure where to start, let me know your goals (reply to this email or leave a comment), and I’ll point you to some good resources.
Here’s a helpful video to get you thinking in the right direction:
Take a little time this week to put some seeds in the dirt. If you do, you’ll soon have the satisfaction of seeing new life springing up, producing healthy food to enjoy.
Next Steps
By the end of next week, I’ll finish installing my garden beds and planting my cool-weather crops: potatoes, turnips, beets, onions, radishes, snap peas, kale, chard, lettuce, and more.
Then I’m going to produce a professional-quality audiobook edition of Birth Pangs of the End Times from the eight audio episodes I’ve published since mid-January. Many of you have already enjoyed these free episodes. The audiobook will be available on Google Play, Apple Books, Spotify, Kobo, and other major retailers—everywhere except Amazon.
Until then—stand in faith, and grow something!
Tom
Maj Tom, DMin
This is a great post! I've been doing my best to do the same. My garlic is looking good from last fall and my early spring cold crops are starting to come up. I have a lot of starts inside taking over my office for peppers and tomatoes.
Years ago I bought one of those, like $200 survival seed vaults and thought I would have seeds to be able to grow a garden when "it all went down", and then 5 years ago or so I decided to grow a garden and it was then that I figured out that I would've died from starvation if I waited to plant seeds until society collapsed. There is a SERIOUS learning curve involved!
One thing I can say is that I'll probably buy from Heaven's Harvest again because that seed vault is still getting great germination rates more than 15 years later. lol
I think I'm gonna be adding some content like this in the near future. I really appreciated this post. Thanks!