flipping burgers averted

Man, when people told me that this business was feast or famine, I just pushed the comments away.  I was a rookie doing 2-3 transactions/month and it was coming pretty easy.  My referral base was growing, my ability to retain potential business was improving, and my market share was giving me the first taste of a steady stream of leads.  Then, as my blogging indicated, late fall/early winter hit and, despite some very promising signs for this year, my wife and I were forced to use some time last week in looking at the writing on the wall...we were destined to be very broke before I was due to get paid again.

 

So, it's one of those things about God that I used to relish in, but now admittedly just find kind of irritating...He'll let you hang out there until you start looking "up" again.  I used to sing along with a song that said, "if I'm going away, break my legs so I stay near to You."  I guess God is answering this prayer a couple of years later...pretty much despite myself.  Deep-down, I am glad I got to know the famine-side of this business a little bit more.  Years from now, I will look back on the last 4 days I just had and have a testimony of how God made sure that this business ("my" business) was built on His terms, so that only He can get the credit.  Yes, I did everything I was supposed to do to grow my business, but why did that not mean anything until I looked up to God and said, "HELP!!"?  Exactly.

 

"Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you." - Paul  Silly me remembering the former, but forgetting the latter.  What happened in the last 4 days that leaves me writing this entry as I am?  Well, Friday morning I get an e-mail about a buyer lead, a referral from a past client.  Friday afternoon, I get an e-mail from a buyer, a woman who is paying a good amount of rent and who wants to buy this summer.  Sunday, I get a call from the husband of one of Sara's classmates, with whom I am writing a contract to purchase a condo this evening.  Sunday evening, I get an e-mail from another woman who wants to buy a house with her boyfriend.  There are more little things here and there with other clients and leads, but this is the "big four" that seems to me to enough for me to say right now.

 

Okay...I'd love to wax on more about this topic and whatnot, but the bathroom is calling, and then I have 3 hours to do 5 hours of stuff before heading off to taekwondo with my wife (yeah, taekwondo is material for a future post...).

 

Peace,
Greg