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In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. But what most people forget is that the brothers spent years in discouraging silence—their experiments failing, their designs stalling, their peers laughing. 

There were long stretches where nothing seemed to work. Yet the silence wasn’t the end—it was the preparation. Something invisible was building beneath the surface until suddenly, in one historic moment, their breakthrough lifted off the ground.

The holidays can feel painfully silent: unanswered prayers, empty chairs, quiet loneliness, or the ache of lost connections. Depression whispers, “Nothing is changing.” Anxiety says, “Nothing will improve.” 

But silence is not absence. 

And stillness is not abandonment.

God often works like the Wright brothers—out of sight before He works in plain sight. The waiting seasons of your life are often where He strengthens you, shapes you, steadies you. What feels like “nothing happening” may actually be God refining lift beneath your wings.

“Be still, and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10

Closing Thought:
The God who speaks worlds into existence also speaks into silence. And when He does, things begin to rise again. This holiday season, trust that your stillness is not a setback. It’s a runway.

Have a great day and God bless!

Pastor Mike / The Open Word