What is actually USEFUL to do to survive this century with you and your family intact?

 I was realizing today there is no one real answer to this question that fits all people.

In the 1970s (when I was 22 to 31 by1979) I thought I had all the answers and that people should build underground houses because it would save electricity because underground the temperature often stays around 60 degrees year around below where ground freezes. And even in the deserts of the world this is true even if you are in Death Valley which is one of the hottest places on earth in July and August of any year partly because most of it is a couple hundred feet below sea level or more.

Then today I was thinking just how basically impractical living underground would be in a place like California where earthquakes happen a lot. I could imagine people's underground dwellings cracking under the strain of both big and small earthquakes over the years.

even in my own bathroom because of constant Microquakes in California and settling there are new cracks in places like my main bathroom near our master bedroom in our house near San Francisco on the Coast.

So, building underground doesn't make a lot of sense where there are earthquakes like in California, Chile or Japan or other earthquake prone places.

Then you have places like Florida which could all very easily mostly be underwater this century because Miami (parts of it) are underwater already at high tides (especially king tides).

So, rebuilding houses where they are going to be underwater a part of the year isn't really practical unless these are boats that float and can anchor during these times on that island or wherever they are.

So, as I thought about all of this more, the best way to survive is different for everyone on earth.

Some people are going to survive just by migrating to someplace better where they can get good food where the climate is better than wherever they were.

So, in the end there is no one answer that fits all people.

However, if you don't plan for the future at all then maybe you won't live to see it?

This is sort of my thought in the moment.

For example, in my own life I was always more of an adventurer. I didn't really plan for retirement until I got into my mid 40s. Why?

Because a part of me always believed I was first going to die at age 25 and when that didn't happen then I was a Dad and married and when that happened I went to work and dropped out of college where I was studying to be a psychologist at the time.

So, I learned to survive best by being an opportunist in every situation and to be very in the moment looking for opportunities to survive in a good and legal way so my kids could all grow up and go to college and be successful in life which they all have.

Then in my 40s I realized I likely was going to die soon (by 50) so I prayed for a wife that would be good for me and that I would be good for her. Two weeks later she showed up in my life and she had been praying for someone exactly like me too.

So, as you can see everyone lives their lives differently. And I found in my 20s that being an opportunist and believing that God would show me always what to do was the best way.

And you know what?

It Was!

By God's Grace