There was a year, early in Daniel’s career as a developer, when a project stalled and the financial strain on our family was real enough that we genuinely did not know how it would resolve. I will not pretend that was a season of easy faith. It was frightening in a very concrete, very practical way.
Habakkuk’s declaration comes right after he lists every agricultural disaster imaginable — no fruit, no flocks, no herds — and still says he will rejoice in the Lord (Habakkuk 3:17-18). I used to think that kind of joy required a resolved circumstance underneath it. That year taught me the joy has to come before the resolution, or it is not really faith at all, just relief wearing faith’s clothing. The business recovered. But the joy we found in the uncertain middle, before we knew the ending, is what I remember most clearly now.