By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA Because preparation and purpose don't always share an address. God will often grow you in one place, one role, one season, and then release your actual purpose somewhere else entirely. Learning the difference keeps you fully present where you are instead of resenting it. We've said you're in preparation and that you should be collecting receipts. Now I want to talk about place, because a lot of us are frustrated with our current situation f

By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA You're not running out of time. You're in preparation. God spent thirty hidden years getting Jesus ready for three years of ministry, which means the long, quiet stretch you're standing in isn't God forgetting your purpose. It's God building it. Let me talk to the woman who feels behind. You had a picture of where you'd be by now, and you are not there, and every birthday feels less like a celebration and more like a countdown. Everybody el

By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA It isn't too late. The desire God planted in you didn't expire because life got hard or because you stopped looking at it. If you buried a dream after disappointment, God is still willing to hand it right back to you, sometimes decades after you let it go. Let me talk to a specific woman today. The one who wanted something so bad when she was younger that it made her come alive. A dream, a calling, a picture of her life she couldn't stop th