“Stay on the train. God will get you where he wants you when he wants you there.” My mentor, Jan Silvious, gave me these words of counsel in the coffee shop during a time of particular angst in my ministry life. I was thirty-something with one published book to my name, a call on my life, and an unclear path ahead. In my youthful zeal I wanted the future now, and I was ready to break down doors and push forward in my own strength (or as the Bible would put it, in my flesh) to get there. Maybe you