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When You're Between Chapters

The awkward middle where old identity is gone but new one is not visible.

Abraham of London
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You've closed a chapter.

The old version of you is gone —
the job, the relationship, the identity, the season.

But the new one hasn't fully arrived yet.

And you're in the awkward middle.
The place where nothing is clear.
Where every direction feels uncertain.
Where you're tempted to force an answer just to feel stable again.


The middle is not a mistake.
It's a necessary space.

Formation happens in the gap.
Not when you've arrived, but when you're still becoming.

This week, stop forcing premature certainty.
You don't need to have it all figured out.
You just need to stay present to what's emerging.

The next chapter will come.
But it cannot be rushed.

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