My first recruit!

I am proud to announce that I have finally signed on my first Tupperware recruit! YAY! After all of these months, paying for booths, sending out emails, maintaining my website, and plugging my business where ever I could, I am now locked into staying with this. How could I back out now?

I still battle with the whole praying and timing of prayers heard issue. I am not sure why I have to fight the results and the obvious that prayers are always answered, and it's not just coincidence. For years, I felt that things would always just fall into place, and they never quite did as easily as they have since I have come back to the Church. All I can think is that this is God, the Holy Spirit, reaching out to prove His point. It's that "duh!" sort of point being made. I don't just pray when I need something. I have been very grateful for what I have and what I have to look forward to, given the opportunities that open up constantly before me. So, why can't I just accept that which is spelled out plainly?

I ask this because, over the past several months that I have been "working" at this business thing, I have prayed that something happen if this is what I am supposed to be doing. Is this what I should be doing instead of going out for a part-time job at the pharmacy, hospital, or wherever? Am I directing my attention, time and money toward a venture that will never pay out? The only money I have made so far has been from very supportive friends and family. However, I can't expect them all to support a pet project that will never grow! So, while the waters and wind have been near-dead, I have asked that I be pointed in the direction that I should be heading. That is one thing that hasn't been as obvious (maybe too much clutter and noise in my busy brain?).

Here I am: prayer answered. I have a recruit! Now, here's my reasoning regarding this milestone: In order for me to earn anything from my downline, I must have at least 3 active recruits. Although I have just one, this is the beginning! I only have to have 2 more! Is this not one step WAY closer to having a business that can support me? This may be an over-reaction to such a simple event, however, I can't look at it that way. I have to let this take me to the next level of an avalanche of growth. I have to believe that this is the first trickle of what is going to become an overwhelming change in my life and that of my family's, right? Otherwise, why pray? Why ask for that sign if I'm going to run from it? He knows what I can handle, and if this is what He's going to give to me, I accept with open, gracious arms!

Oh, and Merry Christmas to me!