By Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA You're supposed to be collecting receipts. A season of preparation is not a season of doing nothing. It's the season where God grows the wisdom, the strength, and the favor you'll need the day your purpose finally goes public. So you pray for those things on purpose, and you let Him build them in you now. Yesterday we said you're not late, you're in preparation, and that Jesus spent thirty years getting ready. Today I want to get practical,

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