Sing Into Your Storm

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 few months, 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 work ing 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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