Some decisions do not resolve themselves with more data. They resolve with conviction and then with evidence.
There are seasons in leadership when the spreadsheet, the advisors, and the calendar all disagree. Those are the seasons when faith is not decoration; it is infrastructure.
I have started programs in three countries on the strength of a conviction and a room I was allowed to borrow. What made them survive was not that conviction alone, but the discipline of service that followed it: showing up, telling the truth, and staying longer than was convenient.
If you are leading in the fog right now, take one honest step forward and serve someone well today. Clarity usually arrives on the road, not before it.
Published in The History Issue
