Dear Friends and Family,
I need some advice and hope you will help! I have one question I am going to ask you - a simple yes or no - to help me decide. I love my journal but am finding that I am not selling it on my website. I pay $39 a month for the site, and $25 a month to Stamps.com for the shipping. So right now, with less than 1 journal sale a month, I am losing money. Honestly, I’m not skilled with small business and do not know how to get the word out without feeling spammy. I have a Christmas boutique I will sell at in November (click here) and other than that, it’s word of mouth. I think I might be able to figure out how to have people Venmo for payment and just continue with word of mouth and shut down the online store. But part of me doesn’t want to close the website yet, either. Most of you know I am currently out of work, so the financial loss is really hurting.
My poll will stay open only 7 days so please vote now!
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If you have thoughts or advice, please reply back to this email or email me directly here: jimison4him@gmail.com . I appreciate all the help I can get! (By the way, if I do close my store it won’t be because I lost hope! I just want to be financially wise and look for other options. You can help by getting a few early Christmas presents.)
On another note, I have been reading a new book, referred by a friend (thanks, Kim!).
”Dr. Lee Warren, a neurosurgeon and former combat surgeon in Iraq, knows this firsthand. A medical doctor with more than twenty years’ experience wrestling with the tensions between faith and science, he faced unspeakable tragedy in losing his nineteen-year-old son.
In Hope Is the First Dose, Dr. Warren offers tender empathy and hard-won insights to give you tangible hope. No matter what you’re facing, it doesn’t have to be the end of you. Let Dr. Warren help you find your way back to a new season of hope, faith, peace—and even happiness.”
First, I love the book because Dr. Warren is a follower of Christ. He has battled with grief, emotions, tragedy, and questions of faith. He came to the same conclusion I did about restoring your soul - it’s through relationship with God. I also love that he is a neurosurgeon and works with GBM (glioblastoma). He knows how the brain works and as I have witnessed, HOPE is vital to life.
Because whether in your past, present, or future, trauma will reconfigure your life. And it will do so as your massive thing: someone left, someone cheated, the biopsy was bad, the baby didn’t have a heartbeat, a loved one died, you suffered abuse, or your dreams ended abruptly. The devastation is both immediate and ongoing, leaving a wake of emotional, spiritual, and even physical pain.
The question isn’t whether you will face the hardest thing. It’s what to do when it’s staring you in the face.
If you need a bit of hope,
Wishing you a blessed week.
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Pam Jimison
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”Love fuels resilience, faith ignites strength.”
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