good enough to send Mr. Silent away smiling, silent at last. Don the accountant, however, was not so silent. He knew VeggieTales was selling well, but he saw more clearly than most the rate at which our expenses were ballooning. So with each new hire, his quiet voice would pipe up: “I think we’re spending too much money.” “Silly fellow,” I’d think to myself, “Doesn’t he see how well we’re doing?” Sure, we were hiring a lot of people, but we needed them to keep building the business—to become the “Christian Disney” that more and more seemed to be our divinely preordained destiny. God was behind
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