A little bit of history
A Big Move!
After many years of offering apparel and marketing solutions working from home I made the big move to open a storefront in Blanchester, OH.
I had a shop area and a shopping area. Screenprinting and signage were created in the back and customers could shop and enjoy a warm cup of coffee in the front.
Business was great! I loved the people I got to meet, the business meetings helping people come up with solutions, and so much more. My kids would get off of the bus after school at my shop and we made great memories working on "work stuff" and "school stuff" together until it was time to go home for dinner.
Business was booming...
Out of what seemed like nowhere I started getting horrible migraines. I couldn't see correctly. I spent my work days laying on the floor literally crying and praying for relief before moving on to my next job.
Eventually I took myself to see a doctor. It was surmised that I had idiopathic intracranial hypertension and empty sella syndrome. In regular english, I had too much fluid on my brain. That fluid was putting pressure on my optic nerves and had damaged parts of my brain, specifically the part where working and short term memory operate.
I had been told the deteriorated vision I was experiencing would not ever heal. It was explained to me I would never be able to drive again. Areas of my brain that had been damaged by what I was going through were expected to never heal.
Doctors tried their hand at giving me relief. I was given multiple spinal taps to drain excess fluid from my brain. I was on 13 different medicines to try to control the relentless pain in my head. Nothing really helped.
I was forced to move my business back to the shop at my house while I waited on the Lord for a miracle.
Healing takes time
After what seemed like an eternity the Lord saw fit to relieve me of the migraines and walk me down a path of showing me how to help myself as well.
With migraines no longer posing a road block I reorganized my shop and started printing shirts and working from home again. It took a little time to get things moving, my short term memory wasn't perfect yet, but things were functioning better than ever.
I remember standing in my shop door looking at the business that was up and running again and smiling to myself. I audibly heard the Lord speak to me as I turned to walk out and head to the house, "my daughter- despise not small beginnings".
Less than two weeks after being told about small beginnings I stood and watched my business, supplies, machines, and past burn to the ground in a gut-wrenching fire. My new insurance policy was set to take effect the following morning after meeting with an agent and signing papers. It was a complete and total loss.
Baby Steps
Getting to the mental place to be able to physically clear out and start over has taken time. Honestly, more time than I anticipated. I have realized the talents and the gifts that God has put within me were not destroyed by the fire. I have learned to utilize my laptop as we rebuild.
Maybe knowing all of my back story was beneficial, maybe it was not. I beleive that when the Lord works and moves in our lives we have a duty to our fellow man to shout the goodness of God.
That's the business in a nutshell. That's one of the many facets of who I am. I am a daughter of the Most High King who has been healed of many things doctors said were incurable, overcome obstacles that seemed insurmountable, started and re started more times than I would like to admit, and amazed many times a day at the merciful heart of my Father.
I am watching business be re built and happily serving customers through the process.
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