A coincidence? I think not.

by Granny Girl

I have recently started a new career in real estate. I've had my license for three years, but the time was never right for me to let go of the full-time job and work for commission only. Working on commission is one of those things for which the time will never be right (like getting married, having a baby, or dying). But since I've been unemployed since June this is a perfectly opportune time!

Because I'm in a sales field, I'm required to have lots of training and learn tons of information about the company and about real estate. I've been in classes from 9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. two days already this week and it's been grueling. I started to doubt if I could do this, but God sent the most wonderful encouragement my way. In both classes there were people next to me who were believers and going through similar struggles that I'm going through. The first day I sat with two ladies, and one started sharing about how she had recently been divorced and got into a rebound relationship and then a break up that had sent her back into her post-divorce emotions. The other lady told her "You are a beautiful woman and God is going to send the right man at the right time so just take care of yourself and your kids and it'll be ok." The divorced lady opened up about how she was a Christian and she knew God was in control. The conversation went on from there about how God had worked in all of our lives. It was so cool!

The next day I had to do a script exercise with the nice man sitting behind me. He told me he was having a hard time concentrating because his three year old was really sick and they were having to put him on a second round of antibiotics and this all came about because his wife had just started working full-time as a nurse so they had to put their two little ones in daycare. He said, "I don't know if I did the right thing by starting a real estate career right now." I told him how I was a person of faith and that through much prayer I had decided that this was where God had put me. He said, "Me, too!" He told me how his church friends had been so supportive and how his wife had encouraged him to do this. I told him the classes were overwhelming to everyone and that he would just have to slog through. And I told him his discouragement was coming from the fact that the teacher was giving us all these assignments and exercises to build our business, but she was leaving God out of the equation. He and I both had God and needed to realize that God was in control of the outcome. We were only in control of our actions and attitudes. He told me that my talk really helped him and took my business card so he could stay in touch. It encouraged both of us to have that little talk!

When fear and doubt started to creep in, as it did when I was sitting in that grueling class wondering when I was ever going to see any profit from this endeavor, God sent encouragement to me and also allowed me to encourage someone else. How cool is that?