In the book Draw the Circle, Mark Batterson writes a chapter about George Washington Carver. Carver rose at 4:00 a.m. every morning to go walking and praying. Carver wrote that he asked God to tell him why He created the universe, and God told him that was too big an idea for him. So he asked why God created the earth, and God had the same response. Through the whittling down of his questions, God led him to the idea of researching the mysteries of the lowly peanut. God told him to separate the peanut into water, fats, oils, gums, resins, sugars, starches, and amino acids. Then he was to recombine these under the laws of compatibility, temperature, and pressure. This seemingly small idea changed the world. Carver's obedience to the voice of God led him to discover hundreds of uses for peanuts. Every time we use fertilizer, wood stain, shaving cream, cosmetics or eat a PB&J we can thank Carver for his prayers and his obedience to God's leading.
I'm taking the lesson of this chapter and starting out on a sales career. I've always thought I was a born salesperson and now God has given me the opportunity (and the nudge) to take steps in that direction. My ultimate goal is to sell residential real estate. A few years ago God worked some miracles to allow me the time and money to go to real estate school and get my license. It has been on inactive status ever since but now God is telling me that it's time to act on it. Real estate is an expensive field to begin in, so I will start my sales career in a smaller way and begin selling jewelry. This will teach me the dynamics of sales and will provide an income to support me while I start up the real estate sales. This has been a long time coming. Like Carver, God had to whittle down my big ideas into workable steps. And God's word will be a "light unto my path" as I start on this new journey.
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