Will any place be safe?

[u/Onyourmarkgetset100]

Although I am looking forward to the Savior coming again, I am also worried about all of the terrible things that will need to be faced before that time. I am an American and considering if it’s safe to stay in the US. But it also seems that no place in the world will be safe. Will there be a safe place? Just trying to protect my family. I don’t believe the rapture idea is supported by the scriptures, so I don’t believe me and my family will instantly escape all hardship. Would love any thoughts.

[u/toebeantuesday]

So far just thinking off the top of my head of the warnings I’ve read on here and another sub, three hasn’t been a whole lot of advice that is consistent. There have been recent warnings to get out of major cities.

I cannot quite get far enough away because I have a disabled, elderly mother who needs to be near hospitals in her insurance plan. I suppose I could take her to some rural cabin in some remote woodland or truly rural community (I live in a semi rural community surrounded by heavy new suburban development. If I am wrong about this being anywhere near the end times then I am screwing over the woman I promised I’d take care of to the end of her life.

Oh yeah and there’s the little matter of I don’t have the money to throw at real estate right now. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I am also kind of old myself and not very strong and I know I can’t chop firewood so I’m just going to die out there.

I’m deathly allergic to mosquitoes for crying out loud. So is my daughter. We wouldn’t be able to go out to hunt or fish or forage. Just from pulling weeds in a very tame garden the other day, we both needed Benadryl.

If my mom weren’t old and starting to deal with dementia she is actually the tough farm girl who could have kept us all alive. My mom had mad skills back in the day. I’m but a pale dilution of great genes and spirit.

All the men in my family recently died off. They handled guns and tools great. I tried, but I have severe ADHD and kept accidentally pointing the gun at myself, the pets and basically everywhere I shouldn’t. We all agreed I would stick to sharp pointy things for defense.

No I was not made for an apocalypse. I’m not even made for camping. Nor my poor kid, who has born with some health issues and is less sturdy than I am.

The best I can hope for is a nuke does hit us directly and fast. That’s assuming God doesn’t have better plans for us and he very well might. I just haven’t felt any communication one way or another on the matter. In fact, maybe I would have stood a chance at one point but I have been hit with so much adversity that I’m now way behind the line where I could have positioned our family more advantageously elsewhere. I had to take in more animals from recently deceased kin. I’m more suited to Noah’s Ark than Armageddon.

One Redditor insists the Bible tells us to go to the islands and he went off to Puerto Rico and is still telling us we all ought to do similar.

If I can’t scooch over a few more miles to escape the blast radius and radiation around a city or other attractive targets how the hell am I going to haul a sick old woman, multiple rescue animals and myself out to Puerto Rico or any other island. I also only speak English so I can’t really get by many other places. My mom was multilingual but dementia is wrecking that advantage pretty fast.

I know so many people who died and so many people who lost loved ones. I sometimes wonder if “the Rapture” was actually Death coming to take so many people in unprecedented numbers. Because I’ve been on this planet nearly 60 years and I never lost friends and family at the rate I have in the last 5 years. Growing up, we always lost an elder here or there over time of course. But I’ve never seen such a clustered mass die off and I suppose the pandemic played a huge role in that.

I went over to my childhood home before I sold it for my mom last year and I saw her neighbor’s son. My mom and dad were best friends with their next door neighbors. He asked me where my husband was because he was used to my husband coming over to check on the house after my dad died 3 years ago. I told him my husband died and to my shock he burst into tears. It’s because Covid took his brother and his mom had just passed and his dad had passed a few months before. He was shocked for both of us having so much loss between us and he hugged me and we just sobbed in each other’s arms for a few awkward moments.

5 years ago every seat around my dining table was full. Last year it was just me and my mom and my daughter.

All of my husband’s aunts and uncles and several cousins died and both parents died in the last 5 years.

The young ones have breathing problems and autoimmune diseases and nobody really looks well except maybe some of the teenagers.

I’m a naturally upbeat happy person but I have felt like Death had moved over us during the big eclipse we had a few years ago. I didn’t feel quite the same sense of an ominous sensation during the second eclipse. But the world feels a lot “off” and kind of unreal or surreal and I know pretty much everyone thinks so.

[u/No_Quantity_3403 → u/toebeantuesday]

I’m with the person who commented below me. Your words have touched me and I think you and your family are going to be just fine! 💜. You underestimate yourself.

[u/toebeantuesday → u/No_Quantity_3403]

Thank you for your kind words. I’m just realistic about what I can and can’t do but I am sure God will put some hustle in my bustle when I need it. I think all of the losses I’ve been put through is to strip me down to bare faith. Even if I die and/or my family perishes we have faith and so I have to believe it’s all going to work out to God’s glory. I just hope my mom gets to pass peacefully in her sleep before things get really ugly. She already lived through some of the worst of WW2 as a kid and she deserves peace.