Yogurt Coffee Cake Recipe and Some Thoughts on Having a Positive Attitude

Here's another recipe for your consideration from the Muffins and Musings blog, together with some words of wisdom about maintaining a positive attitude in the face of adversity.

In thinking about disaster preparation, it is too easy to focus on skills and physical preparations, and forget the emotional preparations. Similarly, in approaching end-time prophecy, the danger is to focus too closely on the horrible events and forget that the time of tribulation are merely birth-pangs to the much greater and brighter future of the Millennium. Keeping a positive mental attitude is key to both physical and spiritual survival.

In his book When All Hell Breaks Loose, Cody Lundin lists "positive attitude" as the foundational need in a survival situation--more important than food, water, and clothing. (See p. 65). He sets out 5 categories of preparation: physical preparation (i.e., getting your body ready), mental and emotional preparation, materials preparation (i.e., physical supplies), dangerous scenario preparation (i.e., role-playing or thought-experiments as to potential survival scenarios), and spiritual preparation. (See pp. 67-68).

We learn from the scriptures that "Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy." 2 Nephi 2:25. (Further discussion here). We were not meant to be miserable or live joyless lives. We need to take this attitude into our survival preparations.