Have you ever had a week where you told God \u201clook. I know you are going to tell me that everything is going to be ok but this time I\u2019m not sure you are right.\u201d<\/p>
We have a convention that we are heading to this week. In the past week, I received an email with a cost I wasn’t aware of, bringing my total of show costs up so high, I thought there might not be any profit to be had.<\/p>
I was so discouraged with \u201cthe future\u201d of this show, I completely shut down. I knew if I turned to the Lord, He would tell me that everything was ok but, quite frankly, I didn\u2019t believe Him. <\/p>
All of these issues with the Future of The Truffle Cottage weighed on my mind. I was dreading this show and I hadn\u2019t even gone yet. To add insult to injury, I had to call the state about an issue and there were extra fees that were unexpected that just made it worse.<\/p>
We were able to resolve the state issues, but I didn\u2019t have all the paperwork to send the convention so I held off.<\/p>
A week had gone by. A whole week of misery, doubt, fear and frustration all about a future I really didn\u2019t know very much about.<\/p>
Then, Monday morning, I received a call from the convention center gal. I assured her I was sending the paperwork that day, and anything else she needed. I mentioned this was a first for us as we have done this convention and not had any extra fees. We sell a product that people give as gifts, and later, enjoy at home. She mentioned it was still food and hung up.<\/p>
Then, the email came.\u00a0 It was a reminder of what we had spoken about and that it needed to be done today.\u00a0 At the end of the email, she let me know they decided that they would waive the extra fees for us.<\/strong><\/p> At that moment, all of my worries just melted away. God really does know all the details of my life, what I need when I need it. I just have to trust Him.<\/p> I\u2019m grateful for a God who is patient with my stubborn prideful tendencies. He knows the end from the beginning. He waits patiently for me to turn again unto Him. He is a great God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever had a week where you told God \u201clook. I know you are going to tell me that everything is going to be ok but this time I\u2019m not sure you are right.\u201d We have a convention that we are heading to this week. In the past week, I received an email with a cost I wasn’t aware of, bringing my total of show costs up so high, I thought there might not be any profit to be had. I was so discouraged with \u201cthe future\u201d of this show, I completely shut down. I knew if I turned to the Lord, He would tell me that everything was ok but, quite frankly, I didn\u2019t believe Him. All of these issues with the Future of The Truffle Cottage weighed on my mind. I was dreading this show and I hadn\u2019t even gone yet. To add insult to injury, I had to call the state about an issue and there were extra fees that were unexpected that just made it worse. We were able to resolve the state issues, but I didn\u2019t have all the paperwork to send the convention so I held off. A week had gone by. A whole week of misery, doubt, fear and frustration all about a future I really didn\u2019t know very much about. Then, Monday morning, I received a call from the convention center gal. I assured her I was sending the paperwork that day, and anything else she needed. I mentioned this was a first for us as we have done this convention and not had any extra fees. We sell a product that people give as gifts, and later, enjoy at home. She mentioned it was still food and hung up. Then, the email came.\u00a0 It was a reminder of what we had spoken about and that it needed to be done today.\u00a0 At the end of the email, she let me know they decided that they would waive the extra fees for us. At that moment, all of my worries just melted away. God really does know all the details of my life, what I need when I need it. I just have to trust Him. I\u2019m grateful for a God who is patient with my stubborn prideful tendencies. He knows the end from the beginning. He waits patiently for me to turn again unto Him. He is a great God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[43,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-blessings","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-tender-mercy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}