The other day, I felt prompted to write a very difficult story down in which I lost $21,000 dollars.\u00a0 This was a hard experience to go through losing that money I didn\u2019t have, and the lesson was just as hard,\u00a0 that money really doesn\u2019t matter to God, it shouldn’t matter so much to me.\u00a0 He asked me to let go, and I, after quite a while, conceded.\u00a0 Not initially because I felt I was really ready to let go of that money, but I needed God back in my life.\u00a0 That was the more important thing.<\/p>
Through time, I was able to let go of the money, work through forgiveness and feel the beginning of a confidence that the Lord had my back.<\/p>
Several months later, we got a contract that was more money than we had ever had before with The Truffle Cottage.\u00a0 In the middle of making the chocolate for this contract, I got the email that I needed to hold up.\u00a0 Stop making chocolate. There was a problem.<\/p>
At this very minute, I saw something. Was this a sneaky test from God to see what I would do? I immediately told the Lord I was ok with whatever He wanted, even to the losing of this contract.<\/p>
Within hours, everything was resolved, the contract was still in place, and I had no reason to worry. <\/p>
More importantly, I don\u2019t even know if I can express the feeling of being able to trust that I have a relationship with a God who cares about me. A God who will patiently wait for me to see His perspective. A God who knows I\u2019m not perfect but still stands by, waiting to help me.<\/em><\/p> Fast forward to this week.\u00a0 We just got an email from one of our biggest conventions we do every year.\u00a0 We were told that we were going to be waitlisted until a time they felt we could have an option to come back. (It\u2019s that age old competition of bringing chocolate into a convention where they already sell food.)<\/p> At first, I started to panic, thinking this could be the end of The Truffle Cottage. Then, after a few minutes went by, I realized God had me write this past experience down for a reason. It was to remember<\/strong> what happened before, and, therefore, prepare me for this next experience.<\/p> Look. I\u2019m not really sure what is going to happen. I\u2019ve explained the situation and we\u2019re now confirmed for a spot next year but we have to work a few things out.<\/p> THE BIGGER MIRACLE HERE is that I feel a peace knowing that regardless of what happens<\/strong>, all will be ok. He has my back. He knows what I need and I trust Him.<\/p> Friends. There is power in letting go of the things of this world and leaning into your relationship with God. He has the full picture of the plan for us and it is better than holding on to anything that pulls us away from Him. Let go and let God. He has wonderful things in store for you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other day, I felt prompted to write a very difficult story down in which I lost $21,000 dollars.\u00a0 This was a hard experience to go through losing that money I didn\u2019t have, and the lesson was just as hard,\u00a0 that money really doesn\u2019t matter to God, it shouldn’t matter so much to me.\u00a0 He asked me to let go, and I, after quite a while, conceded.\u00a0 Not initially because I felt I was really ready to let go of that money, but I needed God back in my life.\u00a0 That was the more important thing. Through time, I was able to let go of the money, work through forgiveness and feel the beginning of a confidence that the Lord had my back. Several months later, we got a contract that was more money than we had ever had before with The Truffle Cottage.\u00a0 In the middle of making the chocolate for this contract, I got the email that I needed to hold up.\u00a0 Stop making chocolate. There was a problem. At this very minute, I saw something. Was this a sneaky test from God to see what I would do? I immediately told the Lord I was ok with whatever He wanted, even to the losing of this contract. Within hours, everything was resolved, the contract was still in place, and I had no reason to worry. More importantly, I don\u2019t even know if I can express the feeling of being able to trust that I have a relationship with a God who cares about me. A God who will patiently wait for me to see His perspective. A God who knows I\u2019m not perfect but still stands by, waiting to help me. Fast forward to this week.\u00a0 We just got an email from one of our biggest conventions we do every year.\u00a0 We were told that we were going to be waitlisted until a time they felt we could have an option to come back. (It\u2019s that age old competition of bringing chocolate into a convention where they already sell food.) At first, I started to panic, thinking this could be the end of The Truffle Cottage. Then, after a few minutes went by, I realized God had me write this past experience down for a reason. It was to remember what happened before, and, therefore, prepare me for this next experience. Look. I\u2019m not really sure what is going to happen. I\u2019ve explained the situation and we\u2019re now confirmed for a spot next year but we have to work a few things out. THE BIGGER MIRACLE HERE is that I feel a peace knowing that regardless of what happens, all will be ok. He has my back. He knows what I need and I trust Him. Friends. There is power in letting go of the things of this world and leaning into your relationship with God. He has the full picture of the plan for us and it is better than holding on to anything that pulls us away from Him. Let go and let God. He has wonderful things in store for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,40,62,41,61],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-loss","tag-miracles","tag-money"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}