✔️ 'You Led Me Through This' - Chapter One
Chapter One Part I ___________________________ It is 8:57pm. The small Christian book and supply store I manage has been open for ten hours and fifty-seven minutes and - with three minutes left - my closing associate and I receive a product availability question that will most certainly erupt into some formidable despair for one of the parties involved. The window blinds are down. The overhead music that plays on a continuous loop of relatively encouraging music during the entire day has finally been silenced. Our Jesus Fish open sign is now unplugged and in its electrical outlet is a vacuum that would ordinarily be in use at this very moment had it not been for this unpredictable call. “Ma’am, I apologize….” (I learned a long time ago in retail that it is best not to say the words “I’m sorry” if you truly were not sorry and carried little in the way of sincerity in your voice.) “...it is just that we don’t carry that product here in my store.” Desperately looking to...