A Story About Starving in the Wilderness — When the Answer Was Closer Than You Thought
Picture a honeybee deep in the wilderness. Not just any bee — a disciplined one. A worker.
The kind that has flown the same routes longer than most bees even live. She has served her
colony faithfully. She knows formation. She knows mission. She knows what it means to give
everything you have to something bigger than yourself.
But the wilderness she is flying through now? It is unfamiliar. The old landmarks are gone.
The hive she once reported to has been left behind — by design, by calling, by something
she cannot fully explain except to say that God moved her feet. And now she is out here,
wings beating hard, searching for something to bring back. Searching for something
real.
The Complication
The trouble is, the wilderness is full of flowers that look promising from a distance.
She lands on one. Empty. She finds another — a little sweetness, but nothing that sustains.
She has tried every patch of color she could find. Webinars. Funnels. “Passive income”
blueprints. Courses that promised transformation and delivered confusion. Each one took her
energy. Each one cost her time. Each one left her lighter than before.
And underneath all of it, a quiet, gnawing question she cannot shake: Is this really
what God pulled me out of the Corps for?
She thinks about the children watching her. She thinks about Proverbs 22:6 — Train up
a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. She
knows she is supposed to be building something. She feels it in her bones the way she once
felt a mission brief — certain, weighty, urgent. But the tactics she keeps trying are
scattered. Shotgun. No pattern. No fire superiority. Just noise.
The marketing is bleeding out. And she does not know why.
The Turning Point
Then — by what she can only describe as God’s goodness and mercy — she stumbles onto
something. Not another flower that looks sweet from fifty feet away. Real honey. Dense,
golden, ancient. The kind that comes from a specific place and carries the weight of
everything that place means.
And here is what the honey teaches her, the thing nobody had ever said plainly before:
the problem was never the tactics. The problem was that nobody ever cared yet.
She had been showing up with portfolios. With pitches. With free offers designed to
prove her worth to people who had not yet decided she was worth their attention. That is
backwards. Gary Halbert called it decades ago — you reach people by giving value
first, before you ever ask for anything. You walk in as the expert who brought
something, not the vendor who needs something. You build a targeted list. You send
targeted offers. You stop spraying and start aiming.
The missing skill was never hustle. It was clarity of message meeting clarity of audience.
And once she understood that, everything she already knew from her years of recruiting —
reading people, building trust, knowing exactly what someone needs before they say it —
suddenly had a structure to live inside.
The Resolution
She does not fly home empty. She flies home buzzing.
And she tells every bee she knows.
Because that is what real honey does. You do not keep it to yourself. It was never meant
to be hoarded. It was meant to be carried back, shared freely, and multiplied — the way
a kingdom is supposed to work.
If you recognize yourself somewhere in this story — if you have served faithfully, left
the familiar, and found yourself working twice as hard for half the result — then what
I am about to share is not a coincidence that you are reading this today.
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finally work the way it was supposed to.
The sooner you start, the sooner the mission has momentum.
Praise God — the honey was real all along. Go find out for yourself.
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