Preparing Your Family for Any Situation

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kathi Lipp shares how a close call with a house fire inspired planning and preparing for any difficult circumstance. She’ll provide you with some simple, realistic, and tangible steps to prepare your family and get them on board. You’ll learn how to reframe the way you look at emergency preparedness so you can hold onto the peace God provides and help your neighbors, too.

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0:00.0	Have that conversation. What's going to be most important to you? Let's make the decisions now
0:09.9	while our adrenaline is not going off the charts while we're not in fear for our life. Let's make
0:15.4	decisions now so that we can be able to be that help to the people who need it in the emergency.
0:22.8	That's Kathy Lipp, and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
0:27.6	We're glad to have you join us.
0:29.0	I'm John Fuller.
0:30.2	John, emergencies can strike any of us at any time, and we're never promised an easy life without any worries, as hard as that is to accept.
0:39.5	That said, I want to let our friends in California know that we are praying for you.
0:44.1	Those fires in the Los Angeles area have been devastating, and we know you're all feeling it.
0:50.9	We also remember our friends in North Carolina who dealt with flood damage last
0:55.1	September. These kinds of situations are exceptionally hard since we have no control over them. How we
1:02.5	react to these circumstances is what's important. We can either live in fear or we can live in
1:08.6	wisdom. And we wanted to come back today to a program we recorded
1:12.5	with our friend Kathy Lip. And as you will hear, she dealt with a wildfire near her house,
1:18.5	which prompted her to learn how to be ready for anything. And she captured her learnings in a book
1:24.4	by a similar title. Now, This is a very timely conversation.
1:27.9	Kathy is a popular speaker and author.
1:30.3	She's the host of Clutter Free Academy, the podcast with Kathy Lip.
1:34.9	And the title of the book she wrote that is really an essential read for us in today's world
1:39.4	is called Ready for Anything, Preparing Your Heart and home for any crisis, big or small.
1:46.2	Now, we've got that book here at Focus on the Family. Just stopped by the episode notes for all
1:50.9	the details. And Jim, we're going to pick it up as you welcome to Kathy to the studio.
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