Last Monday I sat at a stop light around noon, on my way to go pick up my husband to take him to a doctors appointment. My light turned green and I drove forward only to shortly after, look to my left and see a 1999 gold Lexus slam into my drivers side back door and back tire. It was quite the accident.

My 2003 Honda Pilot spun but took the hit well. Thankfully neither myself, nor the other driver, was hurt. The situation sucked. But no one was hurt. The other driver accepted full responsibility and we parted ways to figure out what was next.

This past Friday I got the call that my car was totaled. 119% totaled at that. I am told that anything over 75% of the cars worth in repairs to the car means it’s totaled. It was an old (yet reliable) car though so I was not pumped that I was going to have to get another car (that could be less reliable) and potentially take on a car payment.

Earlier in that day though (Friday) some great things happened. I got two new clients for my social media business and got a contract signed to teach a series of four classes to a bunch of local business owners.

This was a huge week for business.

Let me also give you a disclaimer on my business that I tell everyone of my clients. I am self taught. I do not promise to grow social channels by thousands by month. Essentially, I create original content for them and grow their followings by genuinely interacting with potential customers. I don’t use robots and I don’t pay for followers.

I never imagined my business would grow to where it is now and to see it keep growing is astonishing. So astonishing that I know it isn’t of my doing…it is God’s.

From the moment I left my comfort zone of working in radio for 2 years, I knew I was called to work in a way that wasn’t the status quo.

When we moved back to Virginia, I remember driving to a job interview on the rainiest day. Roads were even flooding. I remember thinking to myself, “I don’t want to have to do this everyday.” Then I clearly heard God say, “Then don’t.” Woah.

Since then God has grown my business slowly.

Recently though, we decided we needed more income. So I prayed. God asked me to tithe 10% of the amount that I wanted to make. Fair.

When you tithe, you (usually) give 10% of your income to the church. God doesn’t need your money to do big things, He needs your heart to do big things. Tithing prepares your heart.

We already tithed but I listened and added to our tithe. That was two months ago.

To tie all this together…

God knew my car wasn’t going to make it forever. He took my car from me in perhaps the safest, most convenient (although scary) way possible. I could have been driving to Charolette, in the middle of nowhere and lost a tire. I could have been rushing to meet a perspective client and it could have just stalled out on the road. You never know.

He took it, made sure all parties were safe, and He built in a payment for a new car with my new clients.

Some might say this is coincidental. I think not.

And while I am thinking of the ways God has blessed my business, I can’t help but think how he hasn’t necessarily blessed this blog in the same way. Readership is steady, I have developed some amazing contacts and relationships from it and, heck, my first client came to be from this blog! But nothing booming has happened like it has in my business (which is ok but not what bloggers hope for lol).

I used to pray this blog would be my full source of income one day. I am starting to see that that might not be His plan. And if so, that’s ok.

Joanna Gains shut down her first retail location even though she loved it with all her heart. God had something greater in store for her. I am not saying that I am going to shut down this space. In fact, I don’t want to. This is my baby. I am willing to though if that is His plan.

I’ll keep you posted…