Find God’s Promise For Your Need It was 1982. I was 27 years old and my life was in shambles. A year and a half before I left a well-paying national sales manager job to be a manufacturer’s representative. I sub-leased a showroom in the prestigious 225 Fifth Avenue NY Gift Building and contracted to reimburse the previous tenant for the showroom improvements. My first year went well. I paid all my expenses and made a little money. Then the recession hit and everyone stopped buying gifts. When the lease ended in 1983 I was $100,000 in debt. In today’s ...

by Ward Cushman