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Living in the in-between when the past is gone and the future is not yet visible
There is a space in the Easter story
that is easy to pass by.
Not the cross.
Not the resurrection.
But the day in between.
There is a space in our lives
that feels just like it.
It is not the life you had.
And it is not yet the life that is coming.
This is the in-between.
Airports are built for this kind of space.
No one lives there.
No one arrives there to stay.
They exist for passage,
for waiting,
for movement not yet formed.
At the gate, a boarding pass rests in your hand,
your name already tied to a destination,
while your body stays here.
Leaving is certain.
Arrival is not yet yours.
Time shifts in places like this.
Suspended.
Unanchored.
Slightly unreal.
Announcements fade.
Flights are delayed.
Names are called that are not yours.
Screens flicker overhead.
Around you, people move with purpose toward places you cannot see,
while you remain seated,
in a space that does not ask you to stay
but does not yet release you forward.
A day in the Christian story carries this same feeling.
Not Friday, where everything breaks.
Not Sunday, where everything is restored.
Saturday.
Holy Saturday is the quietest day in the entire story.
The cross has already happened.
The final words have already been spoken.
The body has already been placed in the tomb.
Nothing moves here.
No miracles.
No voices.
No sign that anything is still unfolding.
Only silence.
The day the earth grew quiet,
while love was hidden from sight.
For those who loved Him,
it must have felt as though the ending had already been decided.
The story they had given their lives to
now sits still.
Unanswered.
Unmoving.
Sealed.
Like standing beneath a departure board
where your flight is no longer listed,
and no one is explaining why.
And yet, something was still happening.
Hidden.
Unseen.
Working beneath what looked like stillness.
When nothing moves, everything is being made ready
Movement feels safer.
Clarity feels kinder.
Direction feels like relief.
A gate number.
A boarding call.
Some signal that tells you when to stand and go.
Holy Saturday offers none of that.
Instead, it becomes the airport terminal of the soul.
Something has already been left behind you,
whether you were ready or not.
Its outline remains,
in memory,
in ache,
in the quiet imprint it left in you.
Return is no longer possible.
Forward has not opened yet.
So you sit.
Your life beside you.
Your name called nowhere.
No clear sense of when things will begin again.
Others board.
Time passes.
Questions rise without answers.
This is the space of becoming.
Rarely does it feel that way.
More often, it feels like delay.
Like silence.
Like being passed over by whatever comes next.
As if something has gone wrong
because nothing is happening.
And still, something is unfolding.
Not where you can see it.
But where it matters.
Inside the one who waits, change is already underway.
Grip loosens around what was.
Room forms for what cannot yet be named.
What cannot come with you begins to fall away.
Direction shifts.
Understanding deepens.
What matters is quietly rewritten.
Holy Saturday carries that same hidden work.
Nothing appears to move,
yet something is being made ready.
Grief settles into truth.
Illusion falls away.
What could not continue
is allowed to end.
This is where many quietly lose heart.
Progress does not show itself here.
No evidence.
No confirmation.
No voice saying, “You’re on your way.”
But this space is not empty.
It holds an unseen transition.
Stillness can be reordering.
Silence can be protection.
What feels like absence may be presence not yet recognized.
Resurrection does not begin on Sunday morning.
It begins here.
The dark holds more than it reveals.
The quiet carries what has not yet been named aloud.
Sealed places keep what is still becoming.
Something is already taking shape,
even now, beyond what can be seen.
A life can change before it reveals where it is going.
This is that place.
If this is where you find yourself,
waiting,
unformed,
standing where the past is gone and the future is not yet visible,
you are not lost.
You are in Holy Saturday.
Even now, it is not the end of the story.
Something has already begun,
even now, beyond what you can see.
What is seen will not last,
but what is unseen is already holding everything together.
You are not stuck.
You are between.
And between
is where becoming begins.
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This reflection rests within an Easter thread,
where what is unseen is quietly at work,
and what is present is not always recognized right away.
If you find yourself here,
these reflections remain nearby:
- Before Resurrection Was Recognized (John 20:11–16: Mary had already been held)
- The End of Scanning (Psalm 46:10: when vigilance softens)
- God Meets You in the Pain (Luke 7:13: where compassion draws near)
- The Future Is Not Hunting You (Psalm 23:6: when goodness follows)
