Pattern
in the Wait
The Holding Pattern
Finding Purpose in the Wait
There is a moment in every flight when the pilot receives word that the runway is not yet ready. The plane circles. The passengers wait. Everything is in motion — and yet nothing, it seems, is happening.
That is exactly where many believers find themselves. You prayed. You prepared. You showed up. And still, the door has not opened. The season has not shifted. The promise has not arrived.
The Holding Pattern is a 20-chapter faith book that reframes the waiting season not as abandonment, but as assignment. Using the language of aviation — pre-flight checks, terminal gates, turbulence, and final approach — this book gives name and structure to what God is doing in the silence. The delay was never the enemy of the promise. It was the runway being prepared.
Part testimony. Part theology. Part pastoral companion for the journey — The Holding Pattern will meet you in the circle and walk you all the way to cleared for landing.
"I did not know that morning that God had already filed a flight plan. I was standing in a season that looked like delay, felt like failure, and smelled like everything I had prayed against. But standing on that runway with nothing moving, I heard something I had been too busy to hear before — the quiet, consistent instruction of a Father who was not lost. He had simply been waiting for me to stop trying to fly myself."
Inside the Book
- —20 chapters across 5 flight phases: Pre-Flight, Terminal, Airborne, Holding Pattern, and Cleared to Land
- —Each chapter ends with a Cockpit Check — three reflection questions and a closing prayer
- —Scripture woven as narrative bridges — not footnotes, but story
- —Real testimony from Juma Salim's own holding seasons — named places, real moments, honest faith
Available on Amazon · Kindle · Paperback · Hardcover | KDP 6×9 · Est. 75,000–85,000 words
"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary."Isaiah 40:31