“Experts agree that the single most important step toward ensuring your personal safety is making the decision to Refuse To Be a Victim. That means that you must have an overall personal safety strategy in place before you need it.”

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him.
Exodus 22:2

It would be impossible for me to accurately say how many “Sustainable Living” books, magazines and web sites I have reviewed. But on the other hand it would be easy to tell you how many of them discuss personal safety and security — 0, zero, none, zilch, nada…

Emergency Preparedness and homesteading sources will sometimes mention personal safety but if I have ever seen the subject covered even one time under the banner of “Sustainable Living” I don’t remember it. Of course if I referenced material that was older than a hundred years old I doubt I would be able to say that. It seems that people in America were more grounded back then.

Anyway, if you want to consider a “Sustainable Living” lifestyle which, of course I think we all should, you must accept at least two realities; 1) Everyone will think you’re a bit strange because you are doing something reasonable in an unreasonable world and 2) You can expect to be a bit scorned until something happens and then at that point you can expect to be either everyone’s best friend or their worst enemy or perhaps both.

The Bible is clear on the subject. The Scriptures clearly reveal that we are to live a “Sustainable Living” lifestyle and we are to provide for others of whom Yahweh God has placed in our care. But your neighbor’s neighbor who heard you had a couple of gallons of extra water stored up may have difficulty comprehending that they are not under your care when they have only had one cup of water to drink for nearly three days in the middle of summer.

These are some hard realities of living a sustainable lifestyle amongst heathens who live by the philosophy of what’s mine is mine and what’s yours in mine too. Think these things through: Settle them in your spirit so that when the time arrives, you can act decisively and with out hesitation.



Parson Rayphe is a certified Refuse to Be a Victim instructor if you would like further information.

I’ll see you out in the field,
Parson Rayphe