I was just returning a PM to a friend of mine that I sold my Yosh carbon fibers to and am reminded of the "bashing LE's" thread where you don't hear enough positive stories about them. Well we don't hear enough about what God has done for us either.
He has been better to me than I deserve. The recession we're in I thought I would be safe from given the work my co. does. I WAS VERY WRONG!
I'm not gonna make a long soap box cause that's not what this threads about. Long story short. For over a year now my co. has been suffering and slowly dwendling. We have gone from 6 employees down to 1 and he has recently quit showing up for work. I'm able to keep up with everything myself but hopefully SOON that will change
I've had to deal with customers starting to use "in house" painters to save money, competitors slashing prices in half to keep business, to even floor covering contractors trying to take my painting work
It is dog eat dog out there for me right now. I've managed to take back work with discount incentives in exchange to be their exclusive contractor and STILL have to deal with slow paying companies because THEY are not getting paid on time.
But SOME HOW bills continue to be paid (on time). Sometimes that's from miraculous checks that just show up out of the blue DAYS before mortgage has to be paid ie....ins. co. sends us a chk for 1500.00 saying we overpaid last year???, next time we get an escrow refund, then odd jobs pop up that in the past I always passed on cause it's not worth my time, but now....
Every month we wonder HOW we're gonna do this. "WE" don't but somehow God always does.
Although making 6 figures a year and never even having to work weekends or even put in 40 hrs. a wk. was never my goal he still gave that to me. All I ever asked for was paid bills, food on the table, and a happy family
I still have those. I'm thankful for everthing he HAS blessed me with.
Something inside me tells me there is a light at the end of my tunnel that is even brighter than where I came from
Last but certainly not least. I'm truly thankful for him bringing me to you guys. Your truly GREAT friends. Friends like you guys are VERY hard to find and to think we all "met on the internet"
We don't always know why God does what he does or allows what he allows. In my case this HAS been a blessing. It's a time in my life I will never forget. It's a time that my faith was strengthened, made me learn to lean on him more, and realize what's really the most important things in my life are. "Things" will always perish. What's eternal are people.
God truly is GOOD!
He has been better to me than I deserve. The recession we're in I thought I would be safe from given the work my co. does. I WAS VERY WRONG!
I'm not gonna make a long soap box cause that's not what this threads about. Long story short. For over a year now my co. has been suffering and slowly dwendling. We have gone from 6 employees down to 1 and he has recently quit showing up for work. I'm able to keep up with everything myself but hopefully SOON that will change
I've had to deal with customers starting to use "in house" painters to save money, competitors slashing prices in half to keep business, to even floor covering contractors trying to take my painting work
It is dog eat dog out there for me right now. I've managed to take back work with discount incentives in exchange to be their exclusive contractor and STILL have to deal with slow paying companies because THEY are not getting paid on time.But SOME HOW bills continue to be paid (on time). Sometimes that's from miraculous checks that just show up out of the blue DAYS before mortgage has to be paid ie....ins. co. sends us a chk for 1500.00 saying we overpaid last year???, next time we get an escrow refund, then odd jobs pop up that in the past I always passed on cause it's not worth my time, but now....
Every month we wonder HOW we're gonna do this. "WE" don't but somehow God always does.
Although making 6 figures a year and never even having to work weekends or even put in 40 hrs. a wk. was never my goal he still gave that to me. All I ever asked for was paid bills, food on the table, and a happy family
I still have those. I'm thankful for everthing he HAS blessed me with.Something inside me tells me there is a light at the end of my tunnel that is even brighter than where I came from
Last but certainly not least. I'm truly thankful for him bringing me to you guys. Your truly GREAT friends. Friends like you guys are VERY hard to find and to think we all "met on the internet"
We don't always know why God does what he does or allows what he allows. In my case this HAS been a blessing. It's a time in my life I will never forget. It's a time that my faith was strengthened, made me learn to lean on him more, and realize what's really the most important things in my life are. "Things" will always perish. What's eternal are people.
God truly is GOOD!
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Always a good thing to be reminded that we don't do it on our own. 
