The Between Places
The in between is a sacred and holy space to be in. The space between where you were and where you are going. The space between the prayer and the fulfillment. The space between the promise and the proof. There are moments when God reveals something so clearly that you know it isn’t your own imagination. Moments where heaven presses up against earth, and you find yourself standing in a space you could never have seen yourself in. I had the word ER laid on my heart a few months ago. It kept showing up in quiet moments, over and over again. I didn’t know if it meant emergency medicine, or helping people in crisis, or if was God stirring something completely different. I didn’t know what I was being called into. I only knew something was being formed in the unseen.
Fast forward a few months, my friend grabbed me at a conference we were attending and told me she was having severe chest pain. The urgency in her voice made everything in me shift. I ran to get the paramedics, and they led us to a closed-off balcony above the arena. On one side of me was my friend, in pain, about to be transported to the hospital. And on the other side, just a few steps away, was an arena full of thousands of people worshipping and declaring the Lord’s goodness. I will never forget the feeling of being physically in between the two callings I have felt.
The veil was pulled back in that moment. Stepping out of the enclosed space to get a glimpse of thousands and then stepping back into the space with my friend to comfort her.
Your calling is in the in between.
It’s not ministry or medicine. It’s not spiritual or physical. It wasn’t peoples souls or peoples bodies.
It was both. It has always been both. Ministry isn’t always a stage. And calling isn’t always a catagory. It’s being present where pain and worship collide. It’s coming into communion with people who you meet in class, asking a stranger how their day is going, or encouraging a friend.
The calling of God on your life often won’t fit into one label. Sometimes it’s the places where you have one hand on a friend and one ear turned towards heaven.