There’s nothing worse than being stuck in the middle. It can feel like all the important things are on either side of you while you’re stuck feeling like you’ve missed the good parts. Sometimes that’s how it can feel when we talk about Jesus. He isn’t here now, he’s coming one of these days, but doesn’t look like it’s today. And now we just sit reading old stories and hoping for new ones. Yet it’s those old stories that assure us that the new one is on the way. And it’s both stories that leave us, not stuck, but embracing the middle.