As we reach the last Tuesday of the year, the 30th of December, it’s only fitting to talk about the art of waiting. Right now, the world itself is suspended in a strange pause—between the closing of one chapter and the quiet hope of another. The same is true in your fiction. Your characters—and your readers—can sit in that pause, in that unbearable space between what was and what’s coming. The tension of waiting isn’t just a pause in action. It’s the loaded silence before

Sometimes the Commander allows the battlefield to grow dark so He can give you a new kind of sight. Every warrior must learn night vision. Because anyone can see God in sunshine — but it takes a trained soldier to recognize Him in shadows. Dark seasons are not proof of defeat. They are proof of development. They are invitations to deeper vision, sharper discernment, and greater dependence on the Commander’s voice.

God often goes quiet right before the breakthrough, right before the miracle, right before the strike. When the Commander stops speaking, it is not a punishment — it is a positioning. He is not ignoring you…He is preparing you. He is not distant…He is drawing you deeper. He is not silent because He is uninvolved…He is silent because He is working behind the scenes, beneath the surface, and beyond your sight. Silence is not the absence of God — it is the atmosphere before His