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No Greater JoyMichael,I am an Amish man who disagrees with youconcerning what you wrote in the NGJ magazine.You seem to lump all Amish into one lump, andwe are all listed as filled with leaven! It is nottrue. Many Amish simply choose to live the simplelifestyle, and it has nothing to do with gettingto heaven. I feel you should address this issuewith this understanding. — Judged and MisjudgedWe received many similar letters. Obviously, we overstated,assumed, and misjudged. — Michael PearlOops!Photo: Elizabeth StewartWe heard rumors that Mr. Pearlwas in jail! Is this true?—A ReaderDebi answers:Mike does go to prison every weekend tominister, but they always let him back out! JContentsHow to Survive theComing Apocalypse3 Part 1: Fear Not Them WhichDestroy the Body10 Part 2: Pre-Wrath Rapture?Zombies, Earthquakes, &Scorching Heat14 Part 3: Worst-Case Scenarios17 Part 4: Getting Prepared13 NGJ Kids: Know How, No Fear!23 Feed the Children25 Corny, Ten Different Ways28 Are You A Good Person?29 The Great Ozark MountainShindig (Sept. 12-15, 2013)39 Mobile Safe KidsCatalog32 NGJ ProductsNo Greater Joy is a bimonthly publication by No GreaterJoy Ministries, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to theadvancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ in America and in thosecountries where Christ is least known. A free subscription is availableby writing to the address below or by visiting our website.Your questions and comments are welcomed. Please send them tothe address below. All correspondence to No Greater Joy becomesthe property of No Greater Joy and is available for publicationunless the writer expressly requests that it not be published.This material is copyrighted by Michael and Debi Pearl.Permission for the reprint of single articles is granted based on thefollowing conditions:1. The article must be printed in its entirety.2. No more than one article per publication.3. Complete recognition must be given as to the source.4. Every reprint must include sufficient information for the readerto subscribe to No Greater Joy.5. No copyright privileges are conveyed by reprinting any portionof this publication.6. This license to reprint may be revoked from anyone abusingthis privilege to reprint.7. This license is in force until the printing of a public statementotherwise.All Scripture taken from the Authorized Version (King James)Holy Bible.No Greater Joy Ministries, Inc.1000 Pearl Road • Pleasantville, TN 37033www.nogreaterjoy.orgMAY-JUN 2013Volume 19 | Number 3Printed in the USAEditors in ChiefMichael and Debi PearlStaff PhotographerElizabeth StewartCover PhotoCouple by Elizabeth StewartContributing WritersShoshanna Easling, Shalom Brand,Mel CohenArt DirectorAaron Aprile

How to Survive theComing Apocalypse– part 1 –By Michael PearlPhoto: Debi PearlThe Pearl family in 1979Fear Not Them WhichDestroy the BodyDDear Mr. Pearl,We live in the suburbs of a fairlylarge city. We homeschool our sixchildren and also home church. Weare very concerned about the wayour country is going. There areso many bad things happening inthe world, and the signs point tothe coming of antichrist and thetribulation. We talk about movingto a remote place to live so wecan protect the children wheneverything falls apart, but we donot have the slightest idea whereto begin. If we could find a placeand live around people of like mindwho could help us get started, wewould probably make the move. Do youhave any recommendation? Do youknow of a community of believersthat has room for one more family?Mike answers:Wow! Where do I begin? Thereis so much in this letter that needsaddressing, and it is just one ofhundreds that we have received.www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 3

I have asked my children to respondto some of the issues, so we arededicating this entire magazine tothis one subject. First, I want to shareour personal experience with you.I can understand yourconsternation. Thirty or forty yearsago, even before it looked like thecountry would descend into anarchyor civil war or financial collapse,before it was obvious that socialengineering and overregulationwould prevent us from living ourconvictions, I was concerned aboutkeeping my family in a positionto survive all the crazy, direpossibilities of doom and destruction.When I was in my teens, Iknew several “whacky” adults whofollowed the John Birch Society. Ipassed them off as conspiracy nuts.Wikipedia says of the John BirchSociety:The organization identifieswith Christian principles,seeks to limit governmentalpowers, and opposes wealthredistribution and economicinterventionism. It opposespractices it terms collectivism,totalitarianism, and communism.It opposes socialism and fascismas well, which it asserts isinfiltrating US governmentaladministration. In a 1983 editionof Crossfire, Congressman LarryMcDonald (D-Georgia), thenits newly appointed president,characterized the society asbelonging to the Old Right ratherthan the New Right.In the fifties and sixties, thewarning cry was against creepingcommunism. The USSR wasspreading its philosophy around theglobe, and our leaders spoke of the4 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936“domino effect.” One by one thecountries in Asia and Africa, andeven our neighbors 90 miles away inCuba were falling to the “Reds.” Atthe time there was serious concernabout an eventual communistinvasion of our homeland, takingaway the liberties granted to us byGod, as denoted in the Constitution.I must confess, back in the latesixties and early seventies, I sawnothing that indicated our freedomsmight be at risk from within. Theprophets crying doom seemed tobe fringe indeed. Then the USSRdissolved and sought democraticreform. We won! Our republic wouldsurvive. No communism for us.With the “fall of communism”and the arrival of the prosperouseighties and nineties, the John BirchSociety and other like organizationsfaded from the public eye, appearingto be discredited prophets nowirrelevant. Little did I know thatthe “communists” would notcome to America in landing craftand parachutes; they would comefrom our universities, be called“progressive,” and be voted intooffice by the people who wantedgovernment to be the source oftheir prosperity. Our personal,family awakening came when theprogressives (socialists) tried toengineer our family for us.By the late seventies, Deb and Ihad begun homeschooling, a practiceunheard of in Memphis, Tennessee.After three hostile visits from ChildProtective Services (CPS) withthreats to take away our children, andthen our big day appearing before thejudge, we were beginning to wonderabout a 1984-like scenario andBig Brother. Could the John BirchSociety and its kind be right? We

Photo: HomesteadCommunityPost.comwere pressed to form plans to escapethe hand of those who “knew bestwhat was good for our children.” Thekids knew the signal that meant theywere to go to the basement, climbup on the washing machine, openthe window quietly, and slip throughthe woods to an old, abandoned barnabout one mile away and wait fortheir grandparents to pick them upand take them out of state to a secretlocation.After several visits and warningsfrom CPS, a certified letter deliveredby a sheriff notified us to bring ourchildren and appear in the judge’schamber on Monday morning atten o’clock. We stowed the childrenfor hasty departure from the stateand went to see the judge alone. Itwas the first volley in a battle wefought and eventually won, but itdid not give us any confidence in thegoodwill of what I now knew to beour socialist government.We had raised the kids in thecountry, fifteen miles outside ofMemphis, providing them with apond in which to swim, free access tothe woods and bottom lands, huntingand fishing, planting a small garden,and working in my wood shop. Theyhad lots of Christian friends, mostof them adults who shared theirinterests. We were part of a strongministry of winning the lost to Christand building them up in the faith.The kids saw God save thousands ofpeople and change their lives. Theyknew God was the center of it all.But by 1988, with five childrenand the oldest having gone throughpuberty and one other not far behind,knowing the time of great temptationfor the children was approaching,we had enough of the rat raceand of trying to provide artificialcommunity for the kids. Many ofthe people who shared the ministrywith us did not fully embrace ourconvictions. It was obvious that theirchildren would not grow up to bewhat we wanted ours to become.Their sons and daughters wouldnot make good spouses. And youngpeople tend to pick the fruit closestto the ground, hanging over thefence in their own backyards. So wesold our four-acre estate and movedto a 100-acre piece of unimprovedground in the hills of MiddleTennessee.It was a wild, crazy adventure.We logged with mules, sawed ourlumber on a homemade saw mill,and built our house, barns, shop,and outbuildings. We cleared newground, plowed, strung fences,milked cows, chased chickens,trying to recover their eggs, grewour vegetables, killed deer for ourmeat, ground wheat and corn for ourbread, and generally lived very poor,plain lives. We loved every minuteof it and the kids grew strong andresilient.None of our neighbors went topublic schools or public churches.Every kid had to work hard all daylong. They met at the swimminghole in the late afternoons andsometimes spent their days exploringthe wooded ridges within a five-mileradius. The kids never went to a mallwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 5

or movie theatre. There wasn’t—andstill isn’t—a television in the house.Not one in the barn either. We didget a 15-inch screen and a VCR andon occasion let the kids watch 101Dalmatians, The Sound of Music,and other like movies until the tapeswore out.In the evenings we playedcheckers and “bored” games (spelledcorrectly). The girls sewed while theboys constructed spear guns or gluedfletches on their arrows or practicedtheir fast draw. We had Bible readingand told Bible stories. Two or threenights a week we had Bible studieswith other families with the kidslistening attentively, participating asthey were able.In the final analysis, it is not thecommunity or the church thatproduces great children andtremendous adults; it is homelife rooted in sincere, relaxed loveof God and family that bearseternal fruit.I took any kind of job I couldget where the boys and girls couldwork with me, building barns andoutbuildings, laying stone, or cuttinghickory sticks for sale to rusticfurnituremakers. The boys got asmall percentage of what we made—7% and 5%, based on their age andabilities. In the spring and summerwe grew organic vegetables and soldthem in Nashville. That is the mostdifficult way to make a dollar. Inthe end I think I made about $2 anhour, and the kids got about $2 a day.Everybody was glad to see the end ofour truck patch farm.Even in our “Christiancommunity,” there were somefamilies with whom we associatedwho matured into immaturity. Notall reaped sweet fruit. A form ofgodliness may conceal, but it willnever heal the depravity on theinside. In the final analysis, it isnot the community or the churchthat produces great children andtremendous young adults; it is homelife rooted in sincere, relaxed loveof God and family that bears eternalfruit. A rotten relationship, or just anempty relationship, between husbandand wife and parents and kids isa soul poison without an antidote.Genuine, laughing love immersed increativity is a miracle cure-all thatsupercharges the soul and grows upchildren that are too healthy to comedown with soul diseases.My children now range from 29to 39 years old and they have givenus 21 grandkids—so far. I can saywithout reservation that the fruit ofold age is sweet indeed. There isnothing but harmony and goodwillin the family. God has blessed usbeyond our deserts. He gives usgrace for grace.What God began in a 13-year-oldboy (when I was born again) and a9-year-old girl 54 years ago, he hasbeen faithful to continue in waysthat leave us wanting for nothingand without regrets. From personalexperience I can highly recommendPhoto: HomesteadCommunityPost.com6 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936

the Christian life based on the Spiritof grace and mercy.Fear NotNow, it seems like I have gottenaway from my subject of preparingfor hard times, but I haven’t. I justwant to testify that the dark curtaincoming down over our nation doesnot cause us to fear. Hard times onthe outside don’t have to translateinto hard times on the inside. Wedo not want to be numbered withthose whose “hearts [are] failingthem for fear, and for looking afterthose things which are coming onthe earth” (Luke 21:26). Jesus said,“And fear not them which kill thebody…” (Matthew 10:28). Andagain he said, “But even the veryhairs of your head are all numbered.Fear not therefore: ye are of morevalue than many sparrows” (Luke12:7). And again Jesus reassures us,“Fear not, little flock; for it is yourFather’s good pleasure to give youthe kingdom” (Luke 12:32).As to hoarding for hard timesahead, Jesus said, “Sell that ye have,and give alms; provide yourselvesbags which wax not old, a treasurein the heavens that faileth not, whereno thief approacheth, neither mothcorrupteth” (Luke 12:33).Hard times on the outsidedon’t have to translate intohard times on the inside.No doubt most Christians needto make some lifestyle changes ifthey want to be prepared for societalunrest and economic depression. Butour starting point must be faith, notfear. “There is no fear in love; butperfect love casteth out fear: becausefear hath torment. He that feareth isnot made perfect in love” (1 John4:18). We need to be celebratinglife and liberty in the spirit, notcomplaining and whining about thepoor state of the state. We must claimthe promise, “Because thou hastkept the word of my patience, I alsowill keep thee from the hour oftemptation, which shall come uponall the world, to try them thatdwell upon the earth” (Revelation3:10). I have a ticket out of herebefore the Great Tribulation (Jacob’stroubles/the time of wrath). More onthat later in this magazine.Come What MaySo come what may, if the worstdoes happen, our generation willnot be the first to suffer deprivationor persecution. The writer ofHebrews indicates that the trialsthat come upon us are to give us theopportunity to become overcomers,to crown us with glory, to buildfaith. He says of sufferings, “all arepartakers” (Hebrews 12:8).The writer of Hebrews dedicatesan entire chapter to those in adversitywho did not fear but established atestimony of faith.“And what shall I more say?for the time would fail me to tellof Gedeon, and of Barak, andof Samson, and of Jephthae; ofDavid also, and Samuel, and of theprophets:“Who through faith subduedkingdoms, wrought righteousness,obtained promises, stopped themouths of lions,“Quenched the violence of fire,escaped the edge of the sword, out ofweakness were made strong, waxedvaliant in fight, turned to flight thearmies of the aliens.“Women received their deadwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 7

Photo: Shoshanna Easlingraised to life again: and others weretortured, not accepting deliverance;that they might obtain a betterresurrection:“And others had trial ofcruel mockings and scourgings,yea, moreover of bonds andimprisonment:“They were stoned, they weresawn asunder, were tempted, wereslain with the sword: they wanderedabout in sheepskins and goatskins;being destitute, afflicted, tormented;“(Of whom the world was notworthy:) they wandered in deserts,and in mountains, and in dens andcaves of the earth.“And these all, having obtaineda good report through faith, receivednot the promise:“God having provided somebetter thing for us, that they withoutus should not be made perfect.“Wherefore seeing we also arecompassed about with so great acloud of witnesses, let us lay asideevery weight, and the sin which dothso easily beset us, and let us run withpatience the race that is set before us,“Looking unto Jesus the authorand finisher of our faith; who for thejoy that was set before him enduredthe cross, despising the shame, andis set down at the right hand of thethrone of God.“For consider him thatendured such contradiction ofsinners against himself, lest ye bewearied and faint in your minds”(Hebrews 11:32–12:3).Caring for Our OwnBut just because we have peaceon the inside and can overcome theworld, that does not mean I wantto be thrown into the fiery furnace,or go hungry, or be vulnerable to apolitical system hostile to traditionalfamily and Christianity. It would befoolish to sit on my faith and takelightly the possibility of cominghardship and deprivation. We shouldprepare but not panic. We shouldplan while we pray. We should getready but remain steady. Whilelaying up our treasure in heaven,we should lay up a store for theday of famine here on earth. Didnot God warn the Egyptians ofhard times coming? And did nottheir preparation see them throughthe days of dearth? Noah receiveda warning of coming judgmentand “prepared an ark to the savingof his house” (Hebrews 11:7).While believing in God’s care andprovision, we can save him a miracleby using the brain he gave us to takecare of ourselves. “But if any providenot for his own, and specially forthose of his own house, he hathdenied the faith, and is worse than aninfidel” (1 Timothy 5:8).If you are like me, you feel astrong, instinctual need to makeprovision for your family’s safetyand comfort. A farmer should havefaith, but he must also put his hand8 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-993629936

to the plow. The Pearl family hasmade preparation against the daysof trial, and we are comfortable withour position in a worst-case scenario.So we dedicate this magazine tosome very practical suggestionsthat, if heeded, can cause you to feelsufficiently prepared come what may.If you are like me, you feel astrong, instinctual need to makeprovision for your family’s safetyand comfort.We can say with the apostle Paul:“What shall we then say to thesethings? If God be for us, who canbe against us?“He that spared not his own Son,but delivered him up for us all, howshall he not with him also freely giveus all things?“Who shall lay any thing to thecharge of God’s elect? It is God thatjustifieth.“Who is he that condemneth? Itis Christ that died, yea rather, thatis risen again, who is even at theright hand of God, who also makethintercession for us.“Who shall separate usfrom the love of Christ? shalltribulation, or distress, orpersecution, or famine, ornakedness, or peril, or sword?“As it is written, For thy sakewe are killed all the day long; we areaccounted as sheep for the slaughter.“Nay, in all these things we aremore than conquerors through himthat loved us.“For I am persuaded, that neitherdeath, nor life, nor angels, norprincipalities, nor powers, nor thingspresent, nor things to come,“Nor height, nor depth, norany other creature, shall be able toseparate us from the love of God,which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”(Romans 8:31–39). ~ Michael gWhat’s A Grandmother To Do?Dear Mrs. Pearl,As a grandmother, I feel you willunderstand my concern about my oldestgrandson who is now 7 years old. Heis so silly and foolish. His parents areboth sober yet loving parents, so I findit strange that he acts so ridiculous, likea slobbering fool. For example: He stickshis tongue out and waves his fingers overit, making strange noises while sendingsaliva spewing, then laughs as everyonetries to get away.He is a kind child and very loving,although he is lazy and already overweight.My gentle-hearted, very steadyson, the father to my grandchild, sawmy repulsion at the boy’s slobberingbehavior and just smiled and tried toreassure me by saying, “He’ll grow up intime.” I can honestly say, out of my sevenchildren, none ever acted with such alack of dignity…not at two years old andcertainly not at seven years old. I onlyhope he will not influence the rest of thegrandchildren.— What’s a grandmother to do?Hear Ye, Hear Ye!Mike will answer this question asa YouTube video, which will besent out on our Cane Creek Corneremails during the month of June.Tune in! Sign up today:http://ngj.me/emailwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 9

How to Survive theComing Apocalypse– part 2 –By Michael PearlPhoto: Elizabeth StewartPre-Wrath Rapture?Zombies, Earthquakes& Scorching HeatDear Mr. Pearl,I know that you believe in therapture and that Christians will nothave to endure the tribulation, butI have come to believe that we will gothrough the tribulation but not theday of wrath, so the church will bepurified as we become overcomers. Haveyou read the book by Rosenthal, ThePre-Wrath Rapture of the Church?10 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936Michael answers:Yes, I read it when it was firstpublished. As always, when I readsomething written by a sincerebeliever that differs with myposition, I open my mind and tryto see their point of view, makingmyself willing to change my viewsif I see that I have been wrong in myinterpretation of the Bible. I readthe book once, and then I read it

again, taking notes and searching hisarguments thoroughly. No one couldbe more open to his point of viewthan I, but I was greatly disappointedin the strength of his arguments.It seemed to be written by a manwho lost his faith in the words ofGod. The end result of carefullyconsidering his point of view wasthat it strengthened my belief in theBible believer’s historical doctrineof the pre-tribulational rapture of allbelievers.Why go through judgment whenJesus has already taken yourjudgment upon himself?Dear Michael,I know that we are living in thelast times, and I feel an urgency toget my family into a place where wecan survive the tribulation that iscoming. Have you written anything onhow to survive the coming apocalypse?Michael answers:The way to survive the comingapocalypse is to reject the markof the beast when he shows up(Revelation 14:9; 15:2; 20:4), andduring the tribulation, hear, repent,believe, and obey the gospel ofthe kingdom preached by one ofthe 144,000 Jewish evangelists(Matthew 24:14), and keep thecommandments of God (Revelation12:17; 14:12) as well as the faithof Christ. Avoid drinking the water(Revelation 8:11). Store up enoughpainkillers to last each memberof your family for five months(Revelation 9:6–10). Avoid beingkilled by the zombies (Revelation9:6). Build an enclosed structure thatis defensible against the starvingmasses (Revelation 6:8) that cannotbe penetrated by flying scorpions,and prepare to stay inside during thefive months that they terrorize theearth (Revelation 9:10). Don’t expectyour children to repent during thetribulation (Revelation 9:20). Locatein an earthquake resistant zone(Revelation 11:13, 16:18). Prepareyour structure with sufficient powersupply to air condition it against thescorching heat (Revelation 16:8–9).Be prepared to move above groundwhen the tectonic shift takes place(Revelation 16:20). But whenyou do move above ground, makepreparations to avoid the 60-poundhailstones (Revelation 16:21). Avoidany area in Italy, especially close tothe Vatican (Revelation 18). Knowthat if you are able to survive thejudgments of God, in the end youand all your family will be deceivedby the antichrist’s lies and will bedamned (2 Thessalonians 2: 8–12).The last thing you will see onthis earth are the Christians returningto the earth at the end of their sevenyearheavenly cruise of worshipand praise to set up the kingdom ofheaven upon the earth.Know that if in this present ageyou had believed on the Lord JesusChrist and were born again, Godwould have kept you from the “hourof temptation, which shall comeupon all the world, to try them thatdwell upon the earth” (Revelation3:10). Why go through the time ofjudgment when Jesus has alreadytaken your judgment upon himself?I am well aware that in the last30 years there has been a shift fromthe pre-tribulation rapture to the postwrath,or mid-trib, or post-trib, or notribpositions. The shift is a result oftwo distinctive factors: degenerationwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 11

in the believer’s confidence in theinspired words of God, and loss ofconfidence in the supernatural. Thosewho have made the shift are not evenaware of their loss of confidence inthe written words of God or of theirloss of confidence in a transcendedGod of imminent miracles. Thedegree to which one believes in theinspiration of every word of theBible and in the normal grammaticalapproach to interpretation is thedegree to which he believes in therapture, second coming, and themillennial (thousand-year) reign ofChrist upon the earth. History atteststo the fact that as men lose their faithin the words of God, they gravitatetoward the allegorical approach tointerpretation and move away frombelief in an imminent return ofChrist for his saints. The carnal mindfinds it more comfortable to believein what he can see—a coming“apocalypse” and man destroyinghimself—than to believe in theimminent rapture of the church.DDear Mr. Pearl,I have had my eye on this gal for overa year. Since I live in a different state, wekeep in daily touch by Skype. Her parentsare youth directors. Their home is opento the youth, and a bunch of youth hangout all weekend and have for years.Since this girl was a teenager, several ofthe same guys that don’t seek the Lordspend weekend evenings there watchingmovies or playing games. It looks bad.She refers to these guys as her reallygood friends. A few weeks ago I askedher point-blank if she thought any ofthe guys were truly seeking God. Heranswer was, “A little. I think they mightbe thinking about it. You need to getto know them because they are really12 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936Anyone who can read English and,according to the rules of grammar,understand what he reads willcome to a belief in two distinctiveevents separated by seven years: theunannounced and unseen rapture ofthe church, and the very predictableand very visible second coming ofChrist with his saints.In this small magazine, it is notpossible to address the subject fully.So I have found a very simple, 200-page book online—free—that doesa great job of defending the pretribulationalrapture of the church.Download the entire book and shareit with others. The Rapture Solution:Putting the Puzzle Together(www.rapturesolution.com)by Allen Beechick.I have indeed read the books thatteach the other positions. Now it isyour turn to think for yourself andread something different. There isno reason to live in fear when youcan be rejoicing in Christ’s soonappearing. ~ Michael gConsidering A Future Wifesweet.” Her choice of best friends givesme pause. Am I just jealous?So I go back and forth as I considerher for my future wife. I know she likesme and wonders why I hesitate whileI wonder (in light of Psalm 1) why herhang-out buddies are lost guys.— His servant, seeking first thekingdom of God.Hear Ye, Hear Ye!This question will be answered asa YouTube video, and sent out inour Cane Creek Corner emails thisJune. If you don’t get our emails,sign up today: http://ngj.me/email

Know How, No Fear!By Shalom BrandSchool time is a great timeto learn something new, right?I love homeschooling my kidsbecause I can teach them thingsthat I want to learn too! Lastweek I asked my husband, “IfI was dropped into the middleof the woods with my children,what would I need to know toprotect us?” Not that I thinkthat will ever happen, but I waslooking for something new tolearn with the kids. He said,“Study shelter, water, and food.”Pretty basic, but when you startdoing it, it’s quite hard. All lastweek our learning project wasabout how to build a shelter.We YouTubed, looked at books,and watched Discovery Channelshows on surviving in the wild.This week we are learningabout water and how to filteror sterilize it. So cool! The kidslove it and Daddy said that afterwe are done, we will go out intothe woods and spend the nightusing our new-found knowledge;the kids are so excited about it!Now here is a funhomeschool project, and it is thenext magazine contest. Tell whatyou would do if you were out inthe wild and it was 20 degrees,and all you had was one roll ofaluminum foil, a big sheet ofclear plastic, and some matches.What kind of shelter could youbuild, and how warm would yoube that night? Try it and send usyour results. Pictures and basicinstructions are required. We’llchoose the winner.~ Shalom g1 stMarch-AprilContest winner!Madeline LambAge 7www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 13

How to Survive theComing Apocalypse– part 3 –By Michael PearlPhoto: HomesteadCommunityPost.comWorst-Case ScenariosII hear your fears of worst-casescenarios—marauding bands ofmotorcycle gang members rapingand pillaging. Maybe you havewatched too many apocalypticmovies. In the early nineties, my sonGabriel went over to Albania to helpa missionary defend an orphanage.The government was no more—noutilities, no jobs, no law. The peoplehad broken into the military armoriesand stolen all the guns, grenades,rocket launchers, explosives, andanything else they wanted. Everyonewas heavily armed. The missionarywas concerned for the safety of the14 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936children, so he mounted a 50-calibermachine gun behind sandbags at thefront door of his orphanage. Whilethere, Gabriel purchased an SKS for$65. It was the doomsday scenarioeveryone fears.Yet Gabriel saw no violence tospeak of. The people got dressed inthe morning and walked the streetsjust like they were going to work.They wandered around as in a trance,disbelieving that their world had shutdown. The American news reportedacts of violence and mayhem, butit was somewhere other than whereGabriel was. Block after block of

Photo: Shoshanna Easlingcity dwellers did not pillage theirneighbors and did not rape and riot.I lived in Memphis when MartinLuther King, Jr. was murdered. Isaw on the news all the violencethat ensued, but I did not see any ofit personally, and I lived within onemile of the largest black communityin the city. Likewise, in the LAriots, you had to tune in to the TV toactually see violence, that is, unlessyou owned an electronics shop in thedistrict where such things are likelyto happen.Good people in a communitywill come together for mutualprotection and assistance.There is much recorded historyto consider. During the two worldwars in France, Germany, Russia,and other countries where for a timepeople were hungry and withoutlocal law, the populace did notgo crazy, leaving the country inapocalyptic meltdown. Most peopleacted civilized and helped theirneighbors. They suffered togetherand shared where they could. Ido think there is an unreasonablefear based on Hollywood-inducedimagination.Obviously, even right now inthe best of times, there are places inevery major city where violence ismore likely, where you are riskingyour life to go out at night, whereyou are likely to be burglarized atleast once a year. Certainly, in thesecrime-prone areas, during a period ofeconomic collapse or a breakdownof law and order, violence willskyrocket. If you live on the edge ofsuch an area, within easy walkingdistance, you could be in danger ifeverything goes haywire. But if youlive in the suburbs with civilizedpeople all around you, a goodnumber of them armed, accordingto past history there is no reason tothink you are going to be draggedinto the streets and your homepillaged.In a worst-case scenario, youmay get hungry, not have anyutilities, have to build a wood fireand boil sewer water to drink,and be at risk of roving burglarsand robbers, but good people in acommunity will come together formutual protection and assistance. Ithas always been the case throughouthistory.I am not suggesting that youneed not prepare for the unthinkable.I am only suggesting that yourpreparation should be more in linewith reasonable possibilities. Don’tbe consumed with preparing forPhoto: HomesteadCommunityPost.comwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 15

something that has only happened ina Hollywood movie. Make sufficientpreparations for something like theGreat Depression in a calm andreasonable manner, and then get onwith living the life God gave you.Fear can be a self-fulfillingprophecy. Live in faith,thanksgiving, and rejoicing.Some people just seem to needa little fear in their lives. The worldloves doomsday scenarios, movies,books, and documentaries, likekids generating tension so they canscream when the other child jumpsout and says “boo.” It makes themfeel alive. It would serve you muchbetter to fear diabetes, cancer, andheart disease so as to give attentionto prevention. You can do somethingto keep you and your children frombeing in the 75% that will succumbto one of these diseases. If you wantto fear something, fear the 25%chance that one of your childrenwill be molested, or the 50% chancethat your spouse will get fed up withyour selfishness and leave you. Fearthat one of your sons will accesspornography and end up beinga sodomite. Fear the geneticallymodified food you are eating or theincurable infections being createdby antibiotics. These things are real.They are happening now. One ofthem is more likely to happen to youthan not. For a family to escape all ofthese is about as rare as winning thelottery.Don’t live as Job did, with fearas your vision. “For the thing which Igreatly feared is come upon me, andthat which I was afraid of is comeunto me” (Job 3:25). Fear can be aself-fulfilling prophecy. Live in faith,thanksgiving, and rejoicing. It ismuch better preparation for the dayof distress.“Are not five sparrows sold fortwo farthings, and not one of themis forgotten before God? But eventhe very hairs of your head are allnumbered. Fear not therefore: ye areof more value than many sparrows”(Luke 12:6–7). ~ Michael gPhoto: Laura Newman Photography16 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936

How to Survive theComing Apocalypse– part 4 –By Michael PearlPhoto: Zephyr PearlGetting PreparedSSo we are not going to gothrough the tribulation, but therehave been plenty of times in historywhen sudden hardship struck anation and the people were thrownupon their own resources tosurvive. We could suffer nationalor local tribulation before the GreatTribulation. It is a small possibility,but very real, that some of uscould, in our lifetime, experiencea Hurricane Katrina, or Sandy, ordevastating tornadoes, earthquakes,or the ravages of war—foreign orcivil—or an outbreak of disease thatwould require us to self-quarantine,maybe something so bad it wouldbe wise to move into the wildernessuntil it all blew over. Therefore,should I make preparation for sucha day?If you are a parent, or areresponsible for the safety andsecurity of others, then you havean obligation to be prepared tofeed and shelter them in adversecircumstances.“But if any provide not for hisown, and specially for those of hisown house, he hath denied the faith,and is worse than an infidel”(1 Timothy 5:8).www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 17

Have you considered what itmight take to secure their safety? Areyou prepared?“For which of you, intending tobuild a tower, sitteth not down first,and counteth the cost, whether hehave sufficient to finish it? Or whatking, going to make war againstanother king, sitteth not down first,and consulteth whether he be ablewith ten thousand to meet him thatcometh against him with twentythousand?” (Luke 14:28, 31).Many people have a store of foodthey expect to last three months ora year. They spend lots of moneyon freeze-dried staples not to beeaten except in a survival situation.Eventually, when kept for a longtime and not needed, they are thrownout or fed to the birds. About every10 to 15 years there is a popularpanic like Y2K or the election ofsomeone named Hussein, and theyrefresh their stores. I have beenaround since the end of the SecondWorld War watching the fear cyclerepeat itself.I could not hide in my basement,grinding my wheat by hand andbaking bread, knowing they werenext door starving.I, too, have been concerned. Imaintain a limited store of basicfoods and have made preparationto have plenty of water on handand some fuel for my vehiclesand tractors, a generator, and theability to defend my family, butmy perspective is quite differentfrom the so-called survivalist whoprepares a bunker stored with foodand ammunition. I feel an obligationto my brother (anyone I have notyet met) as well as to my family. Icannot turn away a person in need.18 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936(However, I reserve the right todetermine whether a person is trulyin need or just in want.) If I had 20buckets of wheat and I were awareof a hungry family, I could not hidein my basement, grinding my wheatby hand and baking bread, knowingthey were next door starving.Living on a farm as I do, ifsociety were to fall apart and therewere no more gasoline, food, orelectricity, and a family were tocome up dragging their meagerbelongings in a pushcart, childrenhungry, wife exhausted fromcarrying a baby, and the husband/father filled with fear and concernfor his family, I could not point mygun at them and tell them to move ondown the road, saying, “This is myfood.” Inconceivable! What wouldJesus do?If you live in a city and societywere to degenerate into chaos anddesperation, do you want yourchildren and you to be the only fatpeople on the block? The hungrymight eat you!Does your Christianity go onhold when there is not enough breadfor everybody?“And if any man will sue thee atthe law, and take away thy coat, lethim have thy cloke also.“And whosoever shall compelthee to go a mile, go with him twain.“Give to him that asketh thee,and from him that would borrow ofthee turn not thou away.“Ye have heard that it hath beensaid, Thou shalt love thy neighbour,and hate thine enemy.“But I say unto you, Love yourenemies, bless them that curse you,do good to them that hate you, andpray for them which despitefully useyou, and persecute you;” (Matthew5:40–44).

Knowledge and SkillNow I am going to share withyou the heart of my preparation, andit is my suggestion for you. The bestpreparation for adversity is not inthe stores you maintain but in theknowledge and skills you possess.It is better to be resourceful than tohave resources. Knowledge is betterthan gold and goods. Your ability toassess your surroundings and adaptto them is something you take withyou when you are stripped nakedand left for dead. A man dependentupon his storehouse of treasures isnecessarily a fearful and anxiousman. For a Christian, it is a bigdilemma.How can you reconcile eatingwhile others starve? How can yourefuse shelter and aid to anyone inneed?Are you prepared to send rain onthe unjust? I know this is radical, notvery Southern/Mid-Western machomale, but Jesus said:“And when he had called thepeople unto him with his disciplesalso, he said unto them, Whosoeverwill come after me, let him denyhimself, and take up his cross, andfollow me.“For whosoever will save his lifeshall lose it; but whosoever shall losehis life for my sake and the gospel’s,the same shall save it.“For what shall it profit a man,if he shall gain the whole world, andlose his own soul?“Or what shall a man give inexchange for his soul?“Whosoever therefore shall beashamed of me and of my words inthis adulterous and sinful generation;of him also shall the Son of man beashamed, when he cometh in theglory of his Father with the holyangels” (Mark 8:34–38).I am not a pacifist. But afterbeing a Christian for 54 years,walking after the Spirit of God,having my own spirit rebuked andchecked 10,000 times, I have cometo share a little of God’s heart inthese matters, and I still have a Biblethat overrules my personal feelingsand institutional ideas.Begin PreparationPrepare your mind by learningand practicing any skill that mightbe needed in difficult times. Whereyou live will dictate areas in whichyou need to be prepared. If you livein New York City, you will needdifferent skill sets than if you liveon the bayou in Louisiana. I amgoing to share with you some of theskills I have learned that leave mecomfortable with any eventuality.But the basic principle is that youmust address your own personalfears and insecurities by attackingthe darkness that leaves you feelinguncertain and insecure.If I lived in New York City,I would want a hot air balloon tolaunch from the roof of a buildingand float away. If that were notpossible, then I would want aninflatable boat with a 15-hp motorthat I could transport to the water andmake my exit. If that is out of thequestion, then I would want a bicyclein good condition—one for everymember of the family—and a coupleof trailers to pull behind the bicycles,one for each child too young to ridewww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 19Photo: Zephyr Pearl

Photo: HomesteadCommunityPost.comand one for provisions—water anda little food. You would be wastingyour time trying to exit the east coastin an automobile. It would take amonth and a lot of bulldozer work toclear out New York City. If I livedin NYC and had a bicycle, it wouldmake me feel that I was in control ofmy own life.Of course, you would need toknow that you could ride 150 milesin a day and then camp out in thewoods at night, snare wild gamefor food or make a fish trap, build ashelter, and start a fire.And it would be good to havea destination. Make preparation tomove in with a family member orfriend who lives away from the bigcities. Visit them once or twice a yearand store your goods in the back oftheir garage or in their barn. Developa partnership survival pact in case itis needed. If you don’t have familyor friends in safer areas, buy a rundown,cheap farmhouse on a smallpiece of land and make it a familyproject to fix it up as a vacationhouse and a survival enclave in caseit is ever needed. Get to know thelocals and learn your way aroundthe community. A three- or fourhundred-milebicycle ride in oneweek is easy to do. Traffic jams andfuel shortages won’t be a problemfor you.Most of us do not live in theheart of big cities. Yet there remainsa sense of insecurity when weimagine a national crisis. No matterwhere you live, you need to havethe skills to live off the land like thepioneers and mountain men did 175years ago. You may live on a farmright now, but what happens if youare chased off of it by governmentthugs or overrun by people from thecities? Can you just walk out intoopen country and survive with somemeasure of comfort?There are many books andwebsites on survival skills. It is notenough to view them; you mustpractice. Make it a family hobby tobuild a fire and cook on it. Build afish trap from old chicken wire orfrom willow branches. Go ahead,catch some fish, and then cookthem in the wild. It will do you aworld of good. The thing aboutsurvival food is that it doesn’t haveto be good enough to be sold insupermarkets. A cup full of minnowswill add sufficient protein to yourwild salad soup to sustain the entirefamily. Wild game is quite limitedand will disappear rather quicklywhen a number of people begin todepend on it, but ponds, streams andlakes contain an endless supply ofprotein—turtles, frogs, fish, evensnakes and lizards. And it is a loteasier to trap fish than it is to catch asquirrel or rabbit.Because I know I would sharewhat I have with any who needed it,I know I can never store enough foodto have any sustaining effect. So Ido not have a big store. I have theability to forage the fields and woodsto gather wild things to eat. Savinggarden seeds, I am prepared fromone year to the next to grow what I20 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936

need to eat. I save enough corn seedeach year to plant and feed severalhundred people for an entire year.If hard times come and a familycomes to my farm, I will give them achain saw or ax and show them howto build a log cabin in the woods, andthen I will show them how to gatherwild stuff to eat—greens, seeds,nuts—and show them how to walkthe three miles to the river and usefish traps. I will help them becomeself-sufficient. They will have toplant and hoe the corn, bend overand pull the weeds, and then harvestit and grind it by hand into meal, andthen cook their corn bread to go withthe wild greens and acorn cakes theywill bake. If they want somethingsweet, they can follow the wild beesand harvest honey, or in the springthey can tap maple trees and then cutand split the wood that will be usedfor cooking it down into syrup.I know many people who laughat the thought of a time ofdeprivation…because they knowthey can weather anything theworld throws at them.It will not be easy, but they willsurvive if they are willing to work.If they are lazy and will not work,I will not feed them. I will not givethem my bedroom, and I will not cuttheir firewood, I will not gather theirwild plants or prepare their meals.“For even when we were with you,this we commanded you, that if anywould not work, neither should heeat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10).Depending on one’s knowledgeand skill instead of a hoarded store ismost liberating. I will have nothingto steal, nothing to protect. If a manwants to take my cup of fish or mybasket of wild plants, I will let himhave it and go gather some more. Ican give to any who ask of me andnever run out, for God supplies myneeds through nature. There arehundreds of books covering all theskill sets you will need, but you musthave hands-on experience to gain theconfidence that takes away anxietyand fear. Become a practitioner ofthe wilderness arts.I know many people wholaugh at the thought of a time ofdeprivation, not because they do notbelieve it could happen, but becausethey know they can weather anythingthe world throws at them. They willgrin and say, “It sounds like fun.”Where to Begin?Start camping out or buy thatold farmhouse and make it your“little house on the prairie.” Buysome books or go online and learnto identify edible plants. Half ofthe plants growing in a field canbe eaten. The other half will makeyou sick. You have to harvest andeat them now if you are going to beready. Make and use small fish trapsin local streams or ponds. Go forthe little fish and minnows. Learnto use hand tools as well as powertools. Build something. Construct atemporary shelter out of materialswww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 21Photo: HomesteadCommunityPost.com

you can forage—old carpet, plastic,cardboard, trees and branches, scrapsof wood lying around. The kids willfind it more fun than anything theyhave ever done. Take the familyhiking and exploring. Learn thewilderness around you—watersupply, caves, building material,abandoned buildings that could becommandeered in hard times. Keepon hand the tools that would beuseful—chain saws, cross-cut saws,axes and hand saws, hammers andsharpened knives and machetes.Rope and wire are handy as isplumber’s tape. A small amountof chicken wire to make fish trapswould be useful. Outdoor cookingpots and pans, matches and lighters,flashlights, a small solar panel tocharge a radio and flashlights. I havea Geiger counter and keep iodineon hand in case the unthinkablehappens.Learn how to treat disease andwounds without modern medicalhelp. Learn how to gather and usehealing herbs. Right now, begingrowing something to eat. You cangrow vegetables in a one-gallon potsitting in a window. You can growan entire garden on asphalt by usingbales of straw. A garden 10 by 16feet will feed two people all thevegetables they can eat. Most peoplestart their gardening experience witha plot that is too big, and the labor isso intensive, they give up. Become astudent and a practitioner of growingyour own food. ~ Michael gChildren First, or Husband?DDear Pearls,This is a strange question and Ihardly know how to ask it as it is so weird.So here goes and I hope I make it clearenough to get a straight answer. What ismore important for children:1. Parents having a lovingrelationship, OR2. Parents pouring their life into theirchildren, OR can there be a balance?I feel as a mother it is my job to putmy children first. My husband says thathe needs “us” time to keep him on trackto being a good father. This can translateinto something as simple as putting thekids down in front of a movie so we canspend the evening talking. This reallybothers me. There have been times thathe is all for paying my sister to take theboys to their ball games even if it meansmissing key games just so we can havethe whole house to ourselves because,as he says, sometimes he likes it loud.He has even insisted that I cancel music22 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936classes due to his wanting to dropeverything and have an evening out.Hel--lo, when does the responsibility ofbeing a parent kick in and when is he justbeing a little selfish? My husband insistedthat I seek counsel from an older, happilymarried lady. I agreed to this because it isputting a strain on our marriage. Just tobe totally honest, I am sending this letterto three different marriage counselors.More than anything in the world I wantchildren who are well balanced, feelloved, and seek the Lord, and I am willingto lay down my life for that end.— DianeHear Ye, Hear Ye!This question will be answered asa YouTube video, and sent out inour Cane Creek Corner emails thisJune. If you don’t get our emails,sign up today: http://ngj.me/email

Photo: Laura Newman PhotographyFeed the ChildrenBy Shoshanna EaslingPeople ask me how I get my kids to eat veggies. Well,mostly they eat them because that is what I feed them!WWe just came in from plantingkale and collards that I started fromseed 6 or 8 weeks ago. I still havechocolate-brown soil underneath mynails. The smell of fresh soil in thespring is wonderful! My kids lovehelping, learning, and getting rightin the middle. The whole plantingexperience becomes a homeschoollesson. We talk about how toplant, why heirloom vegetablesare good for the body, what makeshealthy soil, and, of course, ourfavorite subject—worms! Jamesand Jeremiah had a hard time doinganything but comparing who foundthe biggest worm. You know youhave healthy soil when it looks likea worm bed. James said, “We aremy heroes!” as he was observingthe dark, chocolate-brown, beautifulsoil full of life. Last year we startedworking on a series call MakingVegetables. We did a lot of researchand interviewed people around theworld on everything pertaining togardens. From soil and compost toveggies and preserving the harvestand so much more, we’re puttingtogether the best tried-and-true andcutting-edge information in theworld.Last year, we put in a sustainablehillside garden. It started withcarving away our driveway. Welive on the side of a hill, and wehave a circular driveway around ourhouse. We made three large, curvedwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 23

Photo: Shoshanna EaslingPhoto: Laura Newman Photographysteps terracing up the hillside. Wedug a footer along each step wall.We poured footers and laid blocks,enforcing with rebar and pouringevery other one solid. We had astrong wall. After letting the concreteset up for a few days, we backfilled.We added two feet of topsoil, twoinches of compost, and an inch orso of manure. We used a rototiller tomix it all together, and covered it inabout 3 or 4 inches of wood chips.We had our hillside garden!The best part of our hillsidegarden is the way we built up oursoil. That was the first and last timewe will ever need to rototill ourgarden. The 4-inch layer of organicmatter on the top of the soil actslike a skin that protects and feedsthe soil, making it a great home forworms. Every year we will sprinklea little compost or manure on top,and add more wood chips. This iscalled “weedless gardening” becausethe wood chips keep the weeds fromcoming up. One year later our soil isrich, soft, full of worms, and beggingto be planted! We are growingorganic, nutritionally dense foodsagain this year. They taste so good!People ask me all the time howI get my kids to eat veggies. Well, ithelps to have really good ones, butmostly they eat them because thatis what I feed them. Penelope’s firsttaste of food was an onion. Theyare developing taste buds, and Imake sure they develop healthy tastebuds by feeding them lots of freshveggies. I am so excited about ourgarden this year because it is not justfun, it is growing my children intohealthy people. It makes me smile!~ Shoshanna gDear Mr. & Mrs. Pearl,Greetings in the name of JesusChrist our Lord. I am 15 and my parents,five siblings and I live on a small farmwith goats, chickens, rabbits, dogs, a catand a horse. My mom decided to readyour child training books aloud — “ToTrain Up a Child” and all three volumesof “No Greater Joy.” We were all greatlyblessed by them! Thank you for yourgreat advice, wonderful examples andstories! I thank God for your boldness. “Yeare the light of the world. A city that is seton a hill cannot be hid” (Matthew 5:14).God bless you! In Christ, Isaac PhillipsP.S. Thankfully, none of us are named“Johnny.”Photo: Laura Newman Photography24 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936

From the NGJ ArchivesPhoto: Elizabeth StewartCorny, Ten Different WaysBy Debi PearlReprinted from the December 1998 issue of No Greater Joy.WWhen we moved to Cane Creek 26years ago, we went from the “haves” tothe “have nots.” We hadn’t been exactlyaffluent, but we pretty much had whatwe wanted when we needed it. Movinghere changed all that.We sold our four-acre “estate”outside of Memphis, Tennessee, andbought 100 acres of rough woodlandwith 10 tillable acres. After paying forthe land, we had $7,000 left with whichto build a house and barn and to live onfor a year while we were building. Toget lumber for our house, Mike and thetwo boys cut down trees, dragged themto the house with a mule, and then sawedthe logs into lumber at a sawmill he hadpreviously built for that purpose.They had the easy job. I had to learnhow to feed the family on $10 or lesseach week. Fortunately, I had spent thesummer canning and had 300 quarts offruits and vegetables to add to our larder.But when you divide 300 quarts byfive fast-growing kids and two hungryparents, it won’t go very far. By the firstof November, I knew we were in for alean winter. When a man came by andoffered to sell 100 pounds of cabbage for10 cents a pound, I decided it was a wiseuse of $10. He told me that if I placedthe cabbage under our 12 x 16 footcabin and covered it with hay, it wouldkeep all winter. Another lady sold me100 pounds of sweet potatoes and Irishpotatoes, which we also kept under thecabin covered with hay. Still, you divide200 pounds of food by eight mouths andmultiply by three months, and you don’thave many days to eat.I guess the old man down the roadthought that maybe the dumb city folksneeded a helping hand. He broughtover a small sack of rough corn meal,brownish in color. He explained to methat this was just field corn, the kind youfeed to animals. Any dried corn will do.You can buy it straight from a farmerwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 25

or from your local farmers’ co-op. It ischeaper than potting soil. Some peopleburn it in their stoves for heat. It ischeaper than coal or firewood. This pastyear we paid a farmer less than $3 perbushel for a truck-load of corn. A bushelwill fill up two five-gallon buckets. Apick-up truck full would only cost $50.It is easy to store. Some farmersjust dump it in an open bin in the barn.You can put it in barrels, buckets, orboxes. It must be kept dry, and in warmweather it must be sealed or treated withdiatomaceous earth, or the bugs willeat it. There are several easy and safeways to kill the bugs before sealing it inbuckets. You could get that informationfrom a library, but we planned to eat itbefore the next summer. A bug or twonever hurt anybody. Our kids were raisedon them—complaining, mind you.The old man told me to lightly roastthe dried corn in the oven (Indians putthe whole cob in warm ashes until itroasted to a golden brown) and thengrind it coarsely with my cheap littleflea market grinder. If you don’t havea grinder, you could do as the Indiansdid—beat it with a piece of wood.For breakfast every morning, westirred the ground corn into boiling waterto make a delicious hot cereal—just likethe old man had told us to do. He calledit “corn mush.” He told us that a bushelor two would provide breakfast for ourfamily throughout the winter. The firsttime we tried it, we added a little creamthat had been given to us by a neighbor.It was delicious. As the leftover cornmush cools, it soon firms up into awiggly cake. It can then be sliced andlater pan-fried to make a deliciousevening snack, especially if you havesome honey, maple syrup, or surghumto pour over it. The snack would nevermake it to McDonald’s as a famousspecial, but we aspiring hillbillies,not having anything else, found itdelightfully satisfying.A few days later, I told anotherneighbor how much we enjoyed the cornmush. Amused at my simple ignorance,and seeing my eagerness to try newthings, she gave me careful instructionson how to make hominy and corntortillas. Years before, I had watched theMaya Indians in the jungles of CentralAmerica make torillas this way, but nowI was to try it myself. I put about fourcups of the same dried corn (not ground)into a large pan of water. Then I took thehardwood ashes right out of my woodstove and sifted about one cup of ashesinto the corn and water. Hardwood ashescontain lye and will make the outsidehull of the corn soften and dissolve.Ashes can also be used for making soap,cleaning bug-infested areas, treatingcertain skin fungi, and they are greatfor keeping bugs off of the corn whenyou store it in the barn or in any opencontainer. I cooked the corn with theashes for 30 minutes and then checkedit. After several thirty-minute cookingsessions, or after sitting all night on thewarm edge of our wood-burning stove,the outside of the corn became soft andthe corn was swollen to twice its size.I then washed the corn to removethe ashes. If your ashes are finely siftedbefore putting into the corn, then itis easy to wash them out of the corn;otherwise, it takes a while. A little of itis not going to hurt you, and it doesn’ttaste bad. If you want hominy, then putthe cleaned corn back on to cook untilit swells up to several times its originalsize. It should take about an hour, andwill then be white and tender.If you want corn tortillas insteadPhoto: HomesteadCommunityPost.com26 www.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936

of hominy, then instead of cooking it asecond time as you did for hominy, getout your old flea market hand-grinderand grind the soft, washed corn. Add alittle water to the mush dough that comesthrough the grinder, and make one-inchballs of dough.The Maya Indians in CentralAmerica always had a bucket of waterwith corn soaking in preparation fora meal. They just took a little out asneeded and dropped some more in. Theycarefully scooped the top floating cornso there was little washing. They didn’thave a grinder, so they pounded thesoftened corn with a large stick to bringit to a dough consistency. The dough canbe patted out and cooked in a dry pan(no oil, just sprinkle dry corn meal tokeep dough from sticking). The Indianscooked over an open fire on the lid of anold 55-gallon drum.Now my horse-feed corn wasmaking our breakfast and lunch, butwe are not through yet! Being from thesouth, I was raised on cornbread. Everyday, I would grind the dried corn intocornmeal and mix salt, baking powder,and sour milk (if we were really rich, I’dadd an egg) and pour into a hot, oiled,iron skillet to bake for dinner. Often,the next day the leftover cornbreadwas crumbed into a bowl with water,onions, sage, salt, pepper, celery seed,chicken seasoning, chopped cabbageand anything I thought might taste okay.This mixture was baked into a dressing.With a little seasoning, corn was feedingus well. So, there we sat, eating hominy,cornbread, dressing, corn tortillas,dumplings, hot tamales, and corn mushpatties. With the addition of sweetpotatoes and cabbage and a pot of wildgame, we were eating fine—like kings,we thought!Before the winter was over, I wasstuffing some kind of corn concoctioninto everything from squirrel to cabbage.That first long, cold winter finallyended. We planted the leftover cornthat Spring. I had learned well that, intime of famine, the humble corn seedcan feed a family well. I also learnedthat being poor can make you or breakyou. Sometimes a family’s greatesthandicap is having too much and havingit too easy. We learned how to beresourceful because we had to. Successin business may not translate into successin the family. Creativity, work ethic,confidence, and emotional balance oftencome out of the struggle. Even in themiddle of washing our clothes outdoorsin a large pot over a fire, while trying tofigure out what I could feed the familynext, I was happy—happier than I couldever remember. And when Nanny andDaddy Bill came to visit and broughtpeanut butter, I was thrilled. We learnedhow to be thankful, because doingwithout made a little seem so good.We learned how to work together,because we needed each other to survive.We didn’t have to tell our children thatthey were needed. We didn’t pat themon the back when they did their chores,or give them “positive affirmation” byreminding them how important theywere; they were living their worth. Theyknew that what they did mattered. A lifelike that grows strong kids. They learnedto be survivors.Don’t regret your struggles; rejoicein the opportunity to grow. Don’t feartomorrow; make a plan to overcome.And when the lean times come,remember: you can always eat corn. gPhoto: Elizabeth Stewartwww.nogreaterjoy.org | 1-866-292-9936 27

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