I find it’s such a marvelous period when you’ve been patient and stood your ground and one day you see that growth has been going on around you all the time

On a warm Texas night in 1956, Bette Nesmith — later known as Bette Nesmith Graham — sat in a garage surrounded by buckets of white tempera paint, empty nail polish bottles, and handmade labels.

She didn’t know it then, but she was on the brink of something magical.

The product she would eventually create — Liquid Paper, a white correction fluid used to conceal handwritten or printed typos — would become one of the world’s most popular and enduring office supplies.

Graham wasn’t a chemist or an engineer. She was a single mom from Texas who had a brilliant idea while working a 9-to-5 job as a secretary.

But she was also a budding product marketing genius: Over several decades, she identified a need in the market, organically grew her business, staved off competition, and bootstrapped her way to a $47.5m exit — $173m in today’s money.

And she did it all during a time when women were discouraged from pursuing business ventures...read more

 

 Please pray for me. This season has been extremely difficult and very lonely. I've been working so much. I have rarely had any time for anything else. The time in the Word for me has been almost non-existent and I am unfortunately not in any type of community at all. It seems "work" has been consuming my life. I feel miserable, frustrated, and empty, almost like a zombie. I'm sorry to complain, but please pray for me, and that God would intervene and would do whatever He sees necessary. I feel so "off track" in my walk and in life, and I feel so trapped by this job. I don't know what to do. I miss so much consistently spending time with Him and being in His Word. And I miss being in a community of believers big time. Thank you and God bless you! 

richard