When the Israelites escaped from slavery in Egypt and headed for the Promised Land, it took them a lot longer to get there than they had anticipated. Most people experience times in their lives where they get caught in the wilderness between what their lives used to be like and what they hope their lives might one day become. Jeff Manion has written a book about it, called The Land Between: Finding God in Difficult Transitions.
The author has himself spent plenty of time in “the land between”, with the book relating the story of how his family was thrown into chaos when his mother was killed in a car accident, and then the story of how his church struggled through a difficult period when plans to build a proper church building were delayed for several years.
The book is divided into five parts, labelled complaint, meltdown, provision, discipline and growth. Time spent in “the land between” can be an opportunity to grow closer to God or to grow further away from him; the author’s advice is that you choose the former rather than the latter. In my view this book is likely to be helpful to Christians regardless of whether they are currently going through a difficult period, as everyone from time to time gets to visit “the land between”.