Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,
and the man that getteth understanding.
Prov 3:13

But there is another way to look at it. For example… who is the better woodsman; the one who goes out for a couple of weeks at a time with the biggest and best pack fully equipped with the latest and greatest technologically advanced gizmos; or the one who carries the old knife his father gave him and maybe a small “possibles” bag?

Here is another true life example that should make this concept come to life in a real sort of way.

Around 2007 the speedometer on the late model car belonging to someone I knew quit working. They took it to their mechanic on a main street, in the busy part of town, with the latest and greatest computer diagnostic equipment, and received a quote for somewhere around a thousand dollars to fix it.

I knew another mechanic who had a back yard shop, no computers, and was probably the best I have ever seen. I recommended they show the inoperative speedometer to him.

The back yard mechanic asked for a magnet. He sat in the car and I don’t remember exactly how it went but I know that the speedometer was working within five minutes and it still works fine.

We here in America have been brainwashed into thinking more is always better. Sometimes it is, but often the opposite is true.

In regards to living a sustainable lifestyle more stuff won’t win the day. Rather than having the big shop with the expensive computers; learn to fix the speedometer with a magnet.

We are so far behind the common sense knowledge of daily life, that our ancestors had, we think we’re ahead. Let the others race around trying to keep up with the Jones’.

Is it wrong to be wise and acquire extra supplies of necessities? Of course not but focus more on knowledge of the basics and you’ll be way ahead of the game. Learn the basics of life that our ancestors knew so that when Yahweh God provides you with manna…. you’ll know what to do with it.

Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Matthew 6:31-32

I’ll see you in the field,
Parson Rayphe