We are born, walk, sleep, live and die under the Earth’s atmosphere, but most of us have no idea as to what it is. 

The atmosphere upon which life depends was created by life itself. 

Without it, we would be living on a lifeless husk.

The atmosphere is everything above the Earth’s surface, reaching straight upwards roughly 10,000 km (6,214 miles) into space.

Everything beyond this distance is considered to be outer space.

The bulk of the atmosphere is placed close to Earth’s surface up to a distance of roughly eight to 15 kilometers.

It has five different layers,

The Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.

There is no definite boundary between the atmosphere and space.

The troposphere is the layer closest to Earth’s surface, which is around 7 to 20 km thick and comprises half of Earth’s atmosphere. 90% of the Ozone layer is here the protective shield against radiation. This is the layer that returning capsules glow as the capsules are heated in a superheated shroud of incandescent plasma.

The stratosphere is the second layer within the layers of the atmosphere. It starts surpassing the troposphere and ends about 31 miles over the ground.

The mesosphere begins at 31 miles and extends to about 53 miles high.

The thermosphere is known to be the second-highest layer of the atmosphere which extends from 56 miles to between 310 and 620 miles.

The exosphere is known to be the highest layer of the atmosphere, which is extremely thin. It is where the atmosphere joins forces with outer space. The exosphere contains many of the satellites orbiting Earth.

Earth’s atmosphere consists of about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.03% carbon dioxide, and 0.9% argon with tiny percentages of other elements. Our atmosphere is also comprised of water vapor. Besides, Earth’s atmosphere comprises the remnants of dust particles, pollen, plant grains, and other solid particles.

Fortunately for us, Earth’s gravity is strong enough to hold onto its atmosphere.

The earth-atmosphere energy balance is the balance between incoming energy from the Sun and outgoing energy from the Earth.

Because we are increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by continuing to burn fossil fuels, even in relatively small amounts compared to the entire mass of the atmosphere, we are disturbing the entire heat balance of the planet.

We add carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone along with the filtered air which comprises trace amounts of many other chemical compounds.

ITS NO WONDER THAT predicting the consequences of global warming is one of the most difficult tasks for the world’s climate researchers.

It is also difficult to predict the size of the emissions of greenhouse gases in the coming decades as this can be influenced by political decisions and technological advancements.

It is not difficult to predict the results of a temperature increase. ( See the previous post) 

That Are Happening Right Now.

Sadly, most people don’t even realize what is happening, and that is because

the mainstream media only emphasizes stories that fit with the particular

narratives that they are currently pushing.

The demands of life can often cause us to focus on things that don’t really matter.  Hopefully, we can get more people to wake up while there is still time because the clock is ticking for humanity and for our planet as a whole.

When you hear the word slavery, it conjures images of shackles, mistreated people of color, forced to work.

This image was once a true, vivid picture;

However, the term slavery has broadened, and now slavery comes with many more definitions creating a new image for the vile term slavery.

THERE IS A NEW, MODERN, INVISIBLE SLAVERY THAT ENSLAVES PEOPLE AND THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW IT ! !! AND MOST OF US CHOSE THIS FORM OF SLAVERY. 

This new strain is much more virulent and deadly adding hundreds of thousands of new slaves to the mix every minute of the day  – Algorithms Slavery. A hidden world programming its self. 

Slaves are cheap these days.

There are an estimated as high as 45.8 million people in modern slavery around the world. More than in the 18th century at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. 

Simply knowing the statistic that 45.8 million individuals are enslaved in our world is not enough to put an end to the malpractice of modern-day slavery.

We all can and should play a part in the international advocacy for the freedom and rights of all, not only as fellow human beings but also as concerned community leaders and consumers in the global economy.

This presentation PROOVES WITHOUT DOUBT that America is in for a major fight that will put you and your family in the firing line, literally… So make sure you watch this presentation while it’s still online…

The reason why you should pay attention now is that is because these techniques don’t come from books, they’re taken from actual 21^st century warzones, from lawless states where social chaos is the name of the game… … and where not having enough time or money to prepare doesn’t stop real-world preppers from creating virtually impenetrable defenses for their families.

They’re the step-by-step instructions working quietly behind the scenes of everyday life; in internet search engines, satnavs, air traffic control, and food delivery services.

Companies and governments increasingly rely upon algorithms to make decisions that affect people’s lives and livelihoods – from loan approvals to recruiting, legal sentencing, and college admissions – from internet search results to product recommendations, dating matches, and what content goes up on our social media feeds. 

Slavery today includes:

10 million children.

24.9 million people in forced labor.

15.4 million people in forced marriage.

4.8 million people in forced sexual exploitation.

Human trafficking and slavery are the fastest-growing illegal activities in the world today. 

Keep the National Human Trafficking Resource Center’s 24/7 confidential hotline handy.

Saving this number in your contacts and using it whenever suspicious of having seen a victim of human trafficking is one of the easiest and most effective ways to aid law enforcement officials in uncovering exploitation, bringing traffickers to justice, and victims to freedom and restoration.

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Algorithms have been rising fast and saturating our modern world.

We should not take the path of least resistance by sitting in judgment on the past while ignoring the injustices of our day.

Most algorithms in the world today are created and managed by for-profit companies, and many businesses regard their algorithms as highly valuable forms of intellectual property that must remain in a “black box.”

Every time a site is opened we are confronted with an Agreement Templates a choice to Agree or not.  Many websites prompt you to agree to their terms of use before you can register on the website or even use it.

There are two different types of website agreements: browsewrap and clickwrap.

A browsewrap agreement is connected to the main page of the product by a hyperlink. The hyperlink leads to another webpage that will have the terms and conditions of the agreement detailed.

A clickwrap agreement is designed to ensure that the user has a chance to see the terms of use and they must also actively agree to the terms in order to agree. (This one is more legally binding.) 

But are not transparent as they do not reveal the source code, inputs, and outputs of the algorithm that is running the site. 

Without this transparency, the question is how can they be legally binding. 

Specifically, machine learning algorithms – and deep learning algorithms in particular – are usually built on just a few hundred lines of code. The algorithm’s logic is mostly learned from training data and is rarely reflected in its source code. Which is to say, some of today’s best-performing algorithms are often the most opaque.

This is the new form of slavery.  Now being promoted by track and trace, with the current Coivid pandemic digital certifications that no one knows how or who will control, the data that they are now producing and in the future. 

 It suggests that technical transparency – must become law.

Essentially such laws would mandate that users be able to demand the data behind the algorithmic decisions made for them, including in recommendation systems, credit, and insurance risk systems, advertising programs, and social networks.

In doing so, it tackles “intentional concealment” by corporations.

But it doesn’t address the technical challenges associated with transparency in modern algorithms. Here, a movement called explainable AI (xAI) might be helpful.

However, this approach merely shifts the burden of belief from the algorithm itself to the regulators.

In the world of data analytics, it’s frequently assumed that more data is better.

But I firmly believe that the resistance to getting vaccinated is founded on this dilemma of trust.

Risk management, data itself is often a source of liability. That’s beginning to hold true for artificial intelligence as well.

In this short VIDEO, I will unearth A lost super-food will bulletproof you against any food shortage or famine. It’s a food that vanished with the Incas over 6 centuries ago

In the next crisis these lost skills will be more valuable than gold, food supplies and survival equipment combined. These skills have been tested and proven to work for centuries.

Here is just a small glimpse of what you’ll find in this massive 300-page sequel (in color) to The Lost Ways:

• A lost super-food will bulletproof you against any food shortage or famine. It’s a food that vanished with the Incas over 6 centuries ago. This mysterious dish was just recently rediscovered by NASA who has been giving away rations of it to our brave men and women in their month-long space missions. The Incas stored it in pit holes for up to 10 years, ate it year-round, and actually used it to survive a 4 year long super-drought that wiped out their southern neighbors. So, if it managed to save the Incas centuries ago and it still works for our astronauts today, you can bet your last dollar it will keep you and your family well fed in any crisis. And the best part is that you probably already have the ingredients in your kitchen right now.

The hoarding and shortages of the COVID Pandemic are actually not something new to the American scene.

While it has been over a half a century since such things happened, the early history of the United States, all the way up into World War II, there were times of shortage, when people were hoarding everything from flour to toilet paper.

Interestingly enough, other than one or two periods of serious drought, in every one of these cases the food shortages have been second-order crises, caused by something else, mostly wars.

Yet there were other things that caused food shortages too, like the Great Depression.

Food Shortages Aren’t What They Seem

One of the interesting lessons to be taken from the COVID-19 pandemic is that a food shortage doesn’t mean that food doesn’t exist. It means that food isn’t on the shelves, where customers can buy it.

During the height of the 2020 shortages, there was plenty of food on our nation’s farms, in grain silos and at food processors.

In fact, there was so much excess food that farmers and producers were destroying millions of dollars worth of it. Yet grocery store shelves were bare across the country.

Much the same thing happened during the polar vortex freeze in February of 2021. People again rushed to the grocery stores, stockpiling food to get through the crisis. Within 24 hours, the grocery store shelves looked the same as they had during April of the previous year. Yet there was no shortage of food on the farms, in grain silos and at food processors.

The problem in both of these recent cases was a combination of people hoarding and lack of sufficient transportation. It’s important to note that the hoarding we’re talking about here is considerably different than what preppers do. Preppers build up a stockpile over considerable time, which doesn’t noticeably affect supplies in the stores.

On the other hand, hoarders wait until the last minute and then try to buy the stores out, making several trips to do so, if necessary. Sadly, they don’t save that food for the next potential crisis, giving them the opportunity to do it all over again.

There are several important lessons that we can take from those shortages, but the two most important are how quickly they can occur and how they affect food prices.

Now that people have seen what happens to the supply chain in an emergency, we can expect this to become much more normal.

Even for smaller disasters where hoarding is not indicated, many people will do so; and they’ll do so with items that it doesn’t make sense to stock up on. Remember the toilet paper shortages?

But the more critical lesson is about prices; because those will ultimately have a greater impact in future shortages.

Just like we saw the prices of eggs, milk and a host of other things go up during the 2020 shortages; we can expect them to go up in any future disaster that brings shortages along with it. That’s nothing more than the law of supply and demand in action.

Our Looming National Debt

But here’s the thing; the very next crisis we might all face could be an economic crisis. The Coronavirus bills that have been pushed through Congress in the last year have brought the national debt up to just shy of 30 trillion dollars in an effort to forestall that crisis.

Some economists were talking about the debt being unsustainable when it topped $10 trillion. That was 22 years ago and we’re now triple that much.

Few people realize the seriousness of this situation.

We’ve become accustomed to our country having a huge federal debt and one you get past the first trillion, the number is so big, that most people really can’t wrap their head around it. We slipped past the point of our national debt being greater than our nation’s GNP, with hardly anyone noticing it.

That’s supposed to be a tripwire leading to economic collapse, so there are a few of us who are holding our breath, waiting to see when it happens.

There are always economic gurus who are claiming that we’re on the brink of a financial disaster. Right now the only ammunition they need to back up this argument is the national debt. That’s what has caused other countries to go over the financial cliff in recent years, including both Argentina and Greece.

Based upon those two examples, we should have already seen our economy collapse. But it hasn’t. So we have to ask ourselves why. What has kept our economy afloat, when those other countries couldn’t do it?

The answer boils down to the US economy being the largest in the world, which is a major part of the reason why the American Dollar is the world’s reserve currency.

Countries literally have to have US dollars in order to do international trade, because other than in a few cases where countries have signed agreements between themselves to use their own currency for trade (like trade between Russia and China), all international trade is paid for in dollars.

This has allowed our country to export some of our national debt, encapsulated in American Dollars and Treasury Bonds. Other countries unwittingly support our massive debt, because they pretty much have to. Should the world get together and decide not to, we’d be in trouble.

How An Economic Collapse Causes Food Shortages

What this means is that a financial collapse could actually happen at any time, pretty much without warning. If it does, the best model for how it would go would be to look at what happened during Argentina’s collapse in 1999.

Roughly 25% of the population was out of work, with runaway inflation making it harder and harder for those who were working to make ends meet.

During that collapse, food was the greatest shortage that people had to deal with. Just like our shortages during the pandemic, there was plenty of food on Argentina’s farms too. But it wasn’t making it to the store shelves; not because of lack of transportation, but due to pricing.

The entire food industry runs on very narrow profit margins. Grocery stores usually only make about a 2.2% net profit.

The basic business model they operate under is that they make up for that lack of profit through selling a high amount of volume.

But if prices are rising rapidly, such as they would do during a financial collapse, that small amount of profit they make quickly turns into loss.

They can’t turn their inventory fast enough to ensure that they make a profit on the food they buy.

Someone running a grocery store has two choices during such a time. They can either hold onto the things they buy, waiting until they can sell them at a higher price or they can raise prices. Both actually end up happening to varying degrees, as those stores try to make enough of a profit to stay in business.

Here’s where we often get it wrong. We tend to think of food shortages of there not being any food at all. But even in the midst of the worst food shortages the world has ever seen, there has always been food.

The problem isn’t that there is no food, but rather that there isn’t enough to go around. We can see that throughout history and we can still see it in various parts of the world today.

With a widespread lack of food causing prices to rise, it will become harder and harder for people to buy food for their families.

The only people who will have food in abundance will be those who have enough money to buy the food they need, at ridiculously inflated prices or those who can grow their own.

This same thing happened during the Great Depression. People who lived in rural areas generally had enough food to eat, even if they didn’t have anything else.

On the other hand, people out of work in the cities were standing in soup lines, trying to get something to fill their bellies. These are the people who were on the edge of starvation, and we’ll see them again, the next time we have an economic collapse.

The Government Won’t be Able to Bail Us Out

Most of the population is now conditioned to think that the government will bail them out when that time comes. With over 80 years of the government giving out food stamps and the various “COVID stimulus packages” which have been approved by Congress, people have become accustomed to the government being there for them, providing for their every need, even if they weren’t well provided for.

But how is the government going to be able to do that, if the dollar collapses?

The only way they could, would be to issue more fake money as “quantitative easing,” just like they have with the COVID stimulus packages, increasing the national debt even more.

But if the national debt ends up being even a portion of the cause for the economic collapse, then it will probably be impossible for the government to keep giving out those payments, even if they start out doing so.

During Greece’s economic collapse, the World Bank forced them to adopt economic austerity measures, in order to bring the nation’s debt back under control. That meant dropping many of the country’s social programs and leaving people to sink or swim on their own. There’s absolutely no reason to think that things would go any different, when our own financial collapse comes.

As we find ourselves being pushed into the next economic crisis, we can expect the media to make a big deal of the people suffering. Of course, if there’s a president in office that they like, they will try to minimize that reporting. But even then, as things get worse, they’ll start putting pressure on the government to offer more aid. But if the government can’t do that, it will just be so much noise.

Once again, we’ll be faced with a time when the only people who will be in good shape financially speaking will be those who are able to care for themselves. Since we have a smaller percentage of our population living in rural areas, that problem will be more pronounced.

Nevertheless, we are in a time when at least preppers are seeing the need to grow their own food, so at least some people will have food to eat. But that isn’t going to be much help to those who haven’t prepared.

The only solution for many of those people will be to steal what they can. In the February freeze, my brother-in-law, who lives in Fort Worth, lost a large part of his firewood pile to people stealing firewood from him.

That’s a pretty clear indicator of what will happen to our food and other supplies, when the economic collapse comes. If we expect to be able to feed our families, we’re going to have to protect that food from those who would take it from us.

The big question is, are you ready for that day to come?

ONE: A bombshell. Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter, August 6: “Covid vaccine maker Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects after vaccinations over a three-month period following the launch of its shot, according to an internal report from a company that helps Moderna manage the reports.”

“That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events.”

BOOM. 300,000 vaccine adverse effects NOT reported to VAERS, the federal database.

Berenson: “The 300,000 figure comes from an internal update provided to employees by IQVIA, a little-known but enormous company that helps drugmakers manage clinical trials. Headquartered in North Carolina, IQVIA has 74,000 employees worldwide and had $11 billion in sales last year.”

“Earlier this week, Richard Staub, the president of IQVIA’s Research & Development Solutions division, sent a ‘Q2 2021 update’ which was labeled ‘Confidential – For internal distribution only’.”

“A person with access to the presentation provided screenshots of the relevant slide, which clearly explains the 300,000 side effect reports were received over ‘a three-month span’ – not since the introduction of the vaccine in December…”

TWO: Independent researcher Virginia Stoner has issued a stunning new report on the VAERS numbers, and the effort by mainstream scientists to minimize the destructive effects of the COVID vaccines. Here are key quotes from her report:

“More deaths have been reported to VAERS from the covid shots than from all other vaccines combined for the last 30 years.”

“There’s a code of silence shielding the massive increase in deaths (and other serious injuries) reported to VAERS from the covid shots. Not only do CDC web pages and press releases omit that inconvenient fact—vaccine research studies omit it as well.”

“The number of covid shots [in the US] administered so far in 2021 (309 million) is roughly the same as all other vaccines administered in 2020 (316 million). But a shocking 36-times more deaths were reported this year from the covid shots than were reported last year from all other vaccines.”

“Someone died from a vaccine they [a medical provider] administered…could it potentially call their professional judgment into question, or result in a malpractice lawsuit? If you were a doctor, or supervisor at a drive-thru covid vaccination clinic, and you were given a choice between spending the evening filing a VAERS report, or having dinner with friends, which would you choose?”

“There are reasons to think death may be one of the most underreported vaccine injuries of all—mainly because the victim is dead, and can’t file a VAERS report. Nor can they prod their doctor into filing a VAERS report. Unless they’re fortunate enough to have a relative or doctor who knows they got the vaccine, knows about VAERS, understands the potential for vaccine injury, and is willing to go through the onerous process of filing a VAERS report, it won’t happen.”

THREE: Open letter from Doctors for COVID Ethics accusing governments and media of lying to the people:

“Official sources, namely EudraVigilance (EU, EEA, Switzerland), MHRA (UK) and VAERS (USA), have now recorded more Injuries and Deaths from the ‘Covid’ vaccine roll-out than from all previous vaccines combined since records began.”

“TOTAL for EU/UK/USA – 34,052 Covid-19 injection related deaths and over 5.46 million injuries reported as at 1 August 2021.”

“It is important to be aware that the official figures above (reported to the health authorities) are but a small percentage of the actual figures. Furthermore, people continue to die (and suffer injury) from the injections with every day which passes.”

“This catastrophic situation has not been reported by the mainstream media, despite the official figures above being publicly available.”

“The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the ‘Covid’ vaccine programme be halted immediately.”

“Continuation of the programme in the full knowledge of ongoing serious Harm and Death to both adults and children constitutes a Crime Against Humanity/Genocide for which those found to be responsible or complicit will ultimately be held personally liable.”

“Governments worldwide are lying to you the people, to the populations they purportedly serve.”

“The figures above demonstrate that the mRNA vaccines are deadly.”

FOUR: The well-known 2010 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. study of VAERS bluntly stated: “Adverse events from vaccines are common but underreported, with less than one percent reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Low reporting rates preclude or delay the identification of ‘problem’ vaccines, potentially endangering the health of the public.”

Following the finding of that study, you would multiply the number of reported vaccine injuries by 100 to arrive at a proper figure.

FIVE: In view of the massive number of vaccine injuries and deaths, how would we expect the public to react? Here is a major clue. Stat News, July 21: “Millions of unused Covid-19 vaccines are set to go to waste as demand dwindles across the United States and doses likely expire this summer, according to public health officials…”

“Currently, states have administered 52.36 million fewer doses than have been distributed to them, according to federal data.”

“A significant tranche of Pfizer doses is expected to expire in August… Given waning domestic vaccine demand, those doses are unlikely to be fully used before they must be tossed.”

“’We’re seeing demand [for the vaccine] falling off across all the states,’ said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.”

SIX: Understanding this, government, media, and corporate criminals are ramping up vaccine mandates wherever and however they can, to force the needle into your arm.

“You’re aware that our product is highly dangerous and destructive? We’ll make you take it.”

Bill Gates had it exactly correct when he predicted that the weapon of the future was not going to be missiles, but microbes, and that is just what COVID-19 truly is. It is a weaponized virus that’s really killing people, and at the same time is being used to control the people and destroy the economy. When I was a kid, I had a poster of Linda Ronstadt on my bedroom wall, I bet Bill had a poster of George Orwell on his. 

Friends, you should feel privileged to be living in such a time as this, a time that the bible calls the last days. It is coming to pass right before your very eyes.

California is a funny place, I used to live there and it is certainly the land of ‘fruits and nuts’ as the old saying goes. But in 2020, it’s a whole lot nuttier than it used to be, and not only that, the nuts are killing people at an ever-increasing rate. Just days ago, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti rubber-stamped nearly ten thousand unmasked rioters to protest on the streets of Los Angeles, beaming with pride at the ‘long overdue social justice’ demonstrations. Those people were allowed to do anything they wanted to do, but churches had to close and small businesses of every kind were shuttered. What was his message? That social justice is good, and church and a free market economy are bad.

“…Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.” ― Genesis 49:1a (KJB)

Bill Gates had it exactly correct when he predicted that the weapon of the future was not going to be missiles, but microbes, and that is just what COVID-19 truly is. It is a weaponized virus that’s really killing people, and at the same time is being used to control the people and destroy the economy.

Remember what Dr. Birx said that anyone who died of any condition but also had COVID-19, their death would be attributed to COVID-19?. That’s Lie #1. Here in Florida, as in many states across the country, the infection rates are being deliberately misreported.  That’s Lie #2. They want you to be afraid, and they do not want you to know that COVID-19 has a less than 1% death rate. Here in Saint Johns County, we have had a ten-fold increases in COVID cases, sounds scary, right? What they don’t want you to know is that only 12 people have died from it, roughly 0.6% of all cases.

COVID-19 is not going away anytime soon, if ever, because it has proven itself to be exactly what the New World Order needed to roll out The Great Reset. But just remember, Henry Ford tipped us off over 100 years ago, Nelson Rockefeller tipped us off a little over 60 years ago, and Bill Gates is tipping us off every time he opens his mouth.

We have been warned this day was coming, just take a look and see:

• “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford, 1922
• “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991
• “The world can therefore seize the opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.” – President George Herbert Walker Bush
• “We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.” – Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, 1950
• “We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.” Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs (July/August 1995)
• “For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure–one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” ― David Rockefeller, Memoirs

Friends, you should feel privileged to be living in such a time as this, a time that the bible calls the last days. It is coming to pass right before your very eyes. Did you ever wonder exactly how the whole world would transition to a New World Order? Look out your window, it’s happening as you read this. Tick, tock goes the clock of human history, if you’re planning on getting something done for the Lord, right now would be a great time. Later might not be on the calendar.