Sing Into Your Storm ~ Overcoming Adversity Through High Praise

I had been in printing most of my life and currently employed as a print salesman during this development time in our company. I would work selling printing all morning for my present employer, and then in the afternoon I would go over to our new company and work on building it out. Everything was looking good for awhile. In just a fewmonths, we would be putting the finishing touches on our newly developed product line and and begin marketing our products. At the present, we did not have even one customer. Then a series of events began to unfold and before I knew it, I was standing at my “Red Sea” (again). My employer called me one day and said “I know you are working on starting a new company, and I am all for entrepreneural endeavors, but your sales are falling here significantly so you need to make a choice over one job or another!” I knew which one I must choose… There is that “ choice ” thing again! Testing time! I told my boss “I want to thank you for the opportunity you have given me, but I know God has entrusted this company to me so I must follow it out. I want to honor you, so I am willing to stay on with you for 30-60 days and turn over all of my customer’s to whoever you hire to take my place.” I was shell shocked when he said to me “No, I don’t think you have to do that, as a matter of fact, you don’t even need to come back to this place. I will have your assistant clean out your desk.” Suddenly my only income was clipped . I was stunned by the news! I realized that for the first time in my life, I was now fully on my own, with our new company! A new company that didn’t even have a completely developed product yet! A company that didn’t have a single

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