There’s a unique kind of silence that finds leaders in midlife. The applause gets thinner. The calendar is still full, yet the fruit feels lighter in the hand. The role that once made sense begins to rub. Most of us try to outrun that silence. We add a new project or take a bigger title. Yet the wisest leaders I know choose to listen. They turn toward the quiet and ask the questions that success delayed. Who am I now? What has God actually entrusted to me? Where is my courage being tested, and why?