Different Kind of Prepper

I’m a prepper, he’s a prepper, she’s a prepper, we’re all preppers! Wouldn’t you like to be a prepper, too? (Hat tip to the old Dr. Pepper commercial.)
Survivalists and preppers are getting the word out. Lots of good advice if you are so inclined. I’ve done a few things, but nothing on the scale of most who take these things seriously. I’m not focused inwardly, but outward. I got stuff I knew I could use to help others, to be ready to rebuild what comes apart when things go crazy. I won’t pretend I can store enough edibles to help very many, not even really as much as I would expect to need for myself. Just enough to keep things going for a couple of weeks, at best.
That’s because, unless someone drops a nuke on Tinker AFB just a few miles from here, the supply of food locally will be safe. Maybe nothing like our current variety, but enough in quantity and quality to sustain life. The biggest threat is disruption of the supply chain for folks out on the far end, not for those of us who participate more near the first few links. Good thing, too, because we are poor. We couldn’t afford to actually stock up like the survivalists describe.
We’re living just about the official poverty line as a result of choices I felt obliged to make. You could call it a vow of relative poverty. Doing what it would take for me to have a lot more money, while possible, would also be a serious violation of my religion and my calling from God. That implies nothing about you and your sense of imperatives.
I’m prepping according to what I grasp as imperatives God has for me. That’s why the focus is on other people and their probable needs. That is, from what is surely the likely needs of others, I have prepared for those things I know how to handle. First comes blood kin, then anyone who intends to be treated like kin. If my choices end up starving me to death, or some other unexpected end, that’s alright with me. I’m not all the interested in staying in this world in the first place.
But while I’m here, I’m prepping to help my neighbors.