I read this last night from a devotional book just sitting around called Deeper Walk: A Relevant Devotional Series from Relevant Books, left over from past stinters:

There is a place between here and there. A piece of ground in the middle of take-off and landing. A section of the unknown within beginning and ending. You probably find yourself there from time to time. It’s the land known as Inbetween.

Inbetween is one of the most rugged places in life. You aren’t fully here, and you aren’t fully there. Your emotions and hopes are strewn across an endless list of possibilites. Door knobs of wood, brass, and silver line the path, but which willopen? In the land of Inbetween, the paths are lined with sealed envelopes and foggy dreams. Excitement runs forward and fears hold back. And if you stay long enough, you feel the tremors of your soul.

The land of Inbetween is downright scary. It’s a place of blind trust. It’s where the pedals of faith meet the narrow road of fortitude and where movement is demanded though there is no place to go. The worst part about this land isn’t the uncertainty or frustration that accompany it - it’s that God likes it when you’re there.

While he’s no sadist, God loves the  land of Inbetween. He loves what it does to us. He loves the humility and dependence it creates in our hearts, so He creates innumerable forks in life’s road that swerve us into the land of inbetween…

So what will hold you steady when you walk through the terrain of Inbetween? A recognition that Inbetween is God’s design. In one miraculous moment, the Creator of the universe placed you in the greatest Inbetween of all time - the place between this earthy creation and eternity. Life’s smaller lunges forward and backward are merely postcard reminders that there’s something greater than this place we’re visiting.

-Margaret Feinberg

This is it, this is how I’m feeling, here in the land of inbetween.