"Our days are occupied with what is, spent in the cosmic in-between. We are holy, and we are not yet holy. We are pure and blameless, and yet we are not. We are more than conquerors, yet we are still subject to this world. We are not what we were, but are not yet what we will be. The gravity of this sin-saturated world pulls us down, but our future is caught up in heaven with Christ, with the Spirit of Christ pulling us evermore into him.

Living in liminal space—what theologians call the now and the not yet—is full of uncertainty and can be very disorienting. It requires us to believe, by faith, that what lies behind us does not define us. Not even our present realities define our futures. Our entire lives are determined by the grand narrative of heaven consistently and persistently breaking through into our earthly realities."