Between the In-Betweens
So this past Sunday I was driving home from a conference and I pulled up to my house and saw that my roommate wasn’t home and was kinda sad cause I didn’t want to go into an empty house, but I wanted to be home. Well, it got me thinking myself right into a God moment. You see the past few weeks I think everyone’s been scrambling trying to figure out whats going on spiritually, and we’re all slowly starting to get the picture, and one of the things I heard that really spoke to me was how we were like Jacob that had worked 7 years for Rachel and instead got Leah,
and he didn’t want her, but Leah could produce for him and Rachel couldn’t. And we’re all kinda in this place of we think we know what we want and need, and we know there are great things were called to, but they haven’t been handed to us in fullness at this point and the little bit we’ve been given (that we were so excited about) is not at all what we expected, and at times can feel like its not fulfilling, but it is producing! SO back to my driveway, so I’m sitting there about to get out of my car
and I think to myself about how I hate when you’re going from one place to another (whether in real life or metaphorically) and you know that no matter whether you were to go back to the old place or get to the new place that once you get out of your car and walk into that place you are going to have to face that big fat ugly empty feeling, 
and there’s no way of escaping it, but sometimes for a few small minutes you can feel safe and those feelings feel a little bit less when you’re on your way there, in your car. Because even though you’re going from no where special to no where special you still feel like you’re going somewhere, and it feels safe if only for a moment. So that’s when that phrase ran through my head, ‘between the in-betweens’, sometimes it feels easier to be between places, especially when where were headed feels empty, but it’s actually in those places that God produces the most in you. So take that moment in your car and enjoy it, but get out and face the hard places and start looking for fruit, cause it’s there.
Lacey
