We tend to mark the journey through life with much-anticipated milestones like marriage and motherhood. When these don’t come along when expected, it can be disorienting. But the in-between time is not throw-away time, and God’s purposes for our lives do not begin with the next milestone. How do we find contentment and joy in Christ today, even as we hope for something more in the future? What would it mean to have a heart poised between what God has for us now and what he has in store?