My Dad has a very successful business. Despite these down times in America, his housing business is still on the increase! He tried to get me to join, but I refused his offers. I neglected the opportunity.
Despite my rejections, he always seemed to have others invest in his home building business. He made outrageous promises to homeowners such as the building would never fall so long as people remembered who built it.
He started off with building over 11 homes at one point, but now he has grown to millions of homes worldwide. He started his business in a desert town. No it wasn't Las Vegas, but it did have some people whose values were against His. It wasn't the ideal town in those days.
He also said that his building were built on the BEST foundation. He spoke many times to me about how His foundations withstood the test of time. Yet I would still resist. I couldn't believe his business was booming. I thought, "There must be some trick to this! How could my dad profit in bad times." He told me, "Son, my home building business is good. But I want you to join my company. You will be my employer and I will be the boss of everything you do." Huh? Dad wants to boss me around? He wants to tell me what to do?
Again, I went years on other jobs. I worked selling tools using my carefully crafted words to make a sale. From there, I moved on into the furniture business. I visited homes that were built by the best. But as I looked at those homes filled with artwork, decorations, and furniture galore, they were nothing compared to Dad's homes. In fact my Dad's house had many rooms. He was constantly adding rooms as our family grew and grew and grew. It was an ongoing building project.
As I got older, I better understood this business. I joined my Dad's business. I was happy to call him boss. I learned and listened from everything he taught me. It seems that every day, he always had something new for me. In fact, he left me a Book for me to read. A book about building my life. A book about how I can tell others of the many rooms he had built.
My Dad always said that if I came to him, listened to him and followed him that, "It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the flood waters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built."
Thank you Dad for teaching how to live and how to invest in the eternal home business.
Love always,
Your son
