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FRUITFUL FIRING
Wallace Johnson, builder of numerous Holiday Inns said, “When I was 40, I worked in a saw mill. One morning the boss said, ‘You’re fired!'” “Depressed and discouraged, I felt like the world had caved in on me. It was during the depression, and my wife and I greatly needed the wages I was earning. I went home and told my wife and she asked, ‘What are you going to do now?'” “I replied, ‘I’m going to mortgage our home and go into the building business.’ My first venture was the construction of two small buildings. Within five years, I was a multi-millionaire. Today, if I could locate the man who fired me, I would sincerely thank him. At the time I didn’t understand. Later I realized it was God’s unerring and wondrous plan to get me in the way of His choosing.”