Stop Waiting, Start Moving
September 11, 2026
I've spent thirty years standing between danger and the people I've sworn to protect. I founded Leumas Security Services back in 1996, and over the years my work took me from executive protection for presidential candidates and heads of state to leading teams of officers serving clients across the country. If those years taught me one thing, it's this: waiting for the perfect moment is the most dangerous thing you can do.
In protection work, there is no perfect moment. You don't get to pause a threat and ask for better lighting. You assess, you decide, and you move. The training my teams go through is built on one idea: preparation plus decisiveness — prepare relentlessly so that when the moment comes, you don't freeze.
And that is exactly what faith requires.
There's a verse I quote often — Psalm 37:23 in the King James Version: "The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD." Notice what it says. Ordered steps. Not ordered outcomes. The promise isn't that you'll see the whole road. It's that each step is guided. But you have to take the step. Faith without movement is just wishing.
I've had my share of setbacks. Disappointments. Seasons where I didn't know how things were going to work out. My answer every time was the same: I prayed, I believed, and then I took action. Pray about it. Work on it. Believe in it. Put action behind your faith. That's not just my formula for life — it's a leadership formula.
It's the same message in my book, Rent-A-Cop Reboot, which I wrote with Theresa Caldwell. For decades, the private security industry has been treated as the poor cousin of law enforcement — underpaid, undertrained, underestimated. The industry has to stop waiting for someone to hand it respect and reboot itself: higher standards, real professionalism, officers who see themselves as protectors with a purpose. Don't wait for permission. Build the standard yourself, then live up to it.
Here's something protection work taught me about faith: situational awareness. Most people walk through life on autopilot — phone in hand, head down, completely unaware. A protection professional is trained to do the opposite. Scan. Notice. Anticipate. Spiritually, that's discernment. Paying attention to what's really happening instead of what you wish was happening. Noticing the door that's open instead of staring at the one that's closed.
My teams also do something called advance work. Before a client ever arrives at a venue, the team has walked the routes, checked the exits, and planned for what could go wrong. The principle is simple: you don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your preparation. So build the habit before the crisis, not during it. Advance work is faith with a plan — believing something matters enough to prepare for it before you see the result. You do your part. You move. And you trust God with what you can't control.
So here's my challenge to you in this first episode of Protected and Purposeful: stop waiting for perfect. Take the smallest faithful step today — not the whole staircase, one step. Make the call. Write the first page. Pray the prayer, and then do the thing the prayer pointed you toward.
Your next chapter could begin with one decision you make today. Not tomorrow. Not when the money's right or the fear goes away. Today. Fear doesn't leave before you move. It leaves because you moved.
Listen to the episode, and share it with someone who's been standing still.