Mercedes and I watched the EXCELLENT Christian movie "Flywheel" after church yesterday. Without giving anything away (hopefully), let me say that "Flywheel" was the FIRST Kendricks Brothers movie but it's not as well-known as "Fireproof," Facing the Giants," "Courageous" or "War Room." And "Flywheel" was about a Christian businessman who, by God's Grace, served the Lord (and his customers) with his business...I'll say no more except SEE IT.
Last week was the 40th anniversary of my now-defunct business's inception and I was reminded of how God was SO good to me, honoring ME as I honored HIM...both tokens of HIS AMAZING GRACE.
I wrote the following on May 15th, reflecting on how He gave me insight what to NAME the business, and how His "Business Blessings" were with me for 35 years AFTER that, until I retired 5 years ago.
I remember my JOY as I told Beth, who was pregnant with Jenna at the time...it was as if our first child was given a name, not the business!! I told her about it in that bright orange kitchen that SHE had chosen the color of...that was the very room where I got inspired for my name pick. I loved "ALL-OUT" because it started with "A," it was symmetrical, the hyphen made it UNIQUE and it sounded APROPOS........"ALL-OUT CARPET CLEANING"!!
Wow.
Wow.
It took me a few years to realize that the "ING" on the end was inaccurate, though.
You see, NO amount of cleanING truly gets the dirt "ALL-OUT" so I changed it, after about 3-4 years, to "All-Out Carpet CleanERS." This way, the "All-Out" described our EFFORTS and not the RESULTS...the PEOPLE doing the work, not the PROCESS. (This, I thought, was even more truthful and that's why the photo shows the name THAT way.)
No one in New Jersey, to my knowledge, ever tried to steal my name while I was in business but when I began to write for trade mags, and mentioned my company name, a few from around the country swiped it. I didn't care...as long as they were far away from my market area "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," Lol!!
***I can't believe it was 40 years ago since that day but I'm thankful that God helped me to PICK it and to work well for THAT name (and ultimately, for the blessed Name of our Lord Jesus Christ) for 35 years.***
As for the Kendrick Brothers, well, THEY have known God's Business Blessings ALSO!! Their newest movie will debut, Lord Willing, in about 3 months!! It's called "OVERCOMER" and judging from the trailer, it looks superb. Check it out...
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