Max concluded that God’s sovereignty empowers our responsibility: They discovered that effective leaders exhibited “self-control in an out-of-control world.” Hansen studied leadership in turbulent times. While we can’t undo our downsizing or vocation loss, we can map out a strategy. God is all over our downsizing or vocation loss.” God will outlive our downsizing or vocation loss. To paraphrase Joseph’s response to our ministry downsizing or vocation loss: “God preceded our downsizing or vocation loss.

Yet Joseph began and ended his famine crisis assessment with references to God. It may seem more natural to us to recite our woes rather than heaven’s strength. Pastor Lucado states that calamities often leave us off-balance and confused. One poster, held in reserve for an extreme crisis such as a German invasion, never was released to the public. Encouraging slogans were printed on these posters. Max Lucado mentions in Chapter 14 (“Keep Calm and Carry On”) of You’ll Get Through This that in the days immediately preceding war (World War II) with Germany, the British government commissioned a series of posters to be distributed around England.