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- Sean Graver: So you were hired two months ago for a special program everyone said was about to launch. And it hasn't. Contractual delays push the whole thing back. And in the meantime, you've been handed two other projects to lead. Now that part you can handle. What's harder is your supervisor. Emails go unanswered, status updates, they disappear into silence. There are no team meetings, no check ins, nothing. Now you don't mind independence, you actually prefer it. But this isn't independence, it's an absence, and you're starting to question her leadership. Well, my name is Sean, and welcome to Prayer Before Work. So the prophet Habakkuk knew what it felt like to wait on something that seemed stalled indefinitely. And God's answer to him is recorded in Habakkuk 2 3. For still the vision awaits its appointed time. It hastens to the end, it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not delay. So God doesn't tell Habakkuk that his frustration is unwarranted. He tells him the timing isn't broken, even when it feels that way. Now that doesn't mean that you sit back and say nothing about the silence you're experiencing from your supervisor, because a lack of communication is a legitimate concern, and it's worth raising, but in a calm and direct manner. And it might mean documenting your status updates and writing so that there's a clear record and asking specifically for a recurring check-in instead of just assuming that that's the supervisor's responsibility to schedule. But it also means You don't have to let two months of unanswered emails convince you the whole situation is falling apart. Delays and disorganization, they're not always verdicts of someone's character or your future there. Because sometimes there are just delays, frustrating ones, that still eventually resolve. Well, let's pray. Well, God, it's hard to stay steady when we don't have the information or the communication we need to do our job well. Well, give us the patience to wait without becoming resentful, and the courage to speak up clearly about what we need instead of just quietly stewing about it. And help us to tell the difference between a real leadership problem and a season of disorganization that will pass. And and just keep us steady while we wait for clarity that we don't have yet. In Jesus' name, amen. Go make today count.