So after I finished posting to my blog on yesterday, I got hungry. I had a taste for some real food. Some of that-right of the skillet cooking that only your mother can fix. Well, I starting thinking of several places that I could get that kind of eating and then it hit me. I thought about a good friend of mine who just opened his own BBQ smokehouse. Now I had his cooking way before he opened this spot so I knew he could through down on the pit. I drove from Homewood to Margaret (two exits down from the Trussville exit off of I-59). I passed by several places that served the same food that he served, but I knew that his food would hit the spot. When I got there, he greeted me at the door with a smile. It was an amazing moment for me and I know it was for him as well.
The reason why the moments was so amazing is because me and this guy just two years prior were talking about our dreams and how to accomplish them. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was New years Eve 2009. We were at a mutual friends New Years Eve party. We were sitting on the sofa and he was telling me about how I should just put my work (writings) out there. He told me to just go and leave it at different places and eventually someone will notice and that's all I would need...is for one person to notice it. He could really be a motivational speaker because everything he tells you, sounds GREAT and he makes you feel like you can go and do it right then and there. Well, low and behold two months later, I had a book signing. And guess who was right there to shake my hand and tell me "I told you you could do it." The turn that I had was wonderful. It was better than I had imagined. He told me that night, that he enjoyed seeing people succeed. He also said that was the reason why he gives the advice. Well, there was something going on behind the scenes. While he was giving all of this advice to everyone else, he wasn't taking it.
He always wanted to get his own restaurant but never hand the means to do so, so he thought. Here he was telling others how to overcome there obstacles and he couldn't overcome his own. Finally one day, he had a dream. During this dream, he was having a talk with God and while he was talking to God telling him what he was going to do, he said God stopped him and asked him, "You mean you're telling me what you are going to do?" Then God started laughing at him. He said he woke up laughing uncontrollably and he knew what he had to do. He prayed his prayers different from that moment on. Instead of praying telling God what he was doing, he would ask God to do it for him and if it was OK for him to do. At this point, he didn't have a job nor did he have the money to start a restaurant. All he had was his faith in God and that's all he needed. He tried to get loans and was turned down many of times. He tried everything there was to get some funds to start up the BBQ Smokehouse. Then he sat back and told God, I'm stepping out on faith here.
He was sitting at home one day and he received a phone call. The person on the other end told him, "you don't know me, but I heard about what you were trying to do and I want to help out." All I can say now is that Talk of the Town Smokehouse is up and running! I get chills every time I talk about this story because I saw it happen. I was there talking to this guy and saw him go from nothing to where he is now. As I was sitting and chatting with him yesterday, he told me that he gets emotional every time he talks about his story.
Don't ever say that there is something that you can't do because you don't have everything you need. You have everything you need to make any of your dreams come true. And if you don't have it, I suggest you get it...it's called FAITH and it doesn't cost anything except the belief that God will see you through all that you can't see. Get it, step out on it and watch what it will do for you!
"True faith is believing what you can't see not seeing what you can't believe"-K.J Swint
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