On Being Stuck in the Hallway

Christine Schrade-Keddy
3 min readSep 14, 2023
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I got to tell a couple of stories in church the other day-one to a large room full of people, and one to a smaller room full of people. One was about my favorite childhood author, C.S. Lewis.

Both stories were about being stuck in the hallway…..

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A year ago, I found myself in yet another “hallway”.

A dream that I had dreamed and prayed about for many years, was clearly NOT going to come true. It looked, at first glance, like I was finished; like maybe I had misunderstood what I thought God was calling me to do. I was devastated, confused, extremely sad and disappointed.

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This has happened before…..

But God wasn’t finished with me- not by a longshot.

I didn’t have much, but I did have Jesus, and I clung onto Him like a drowning person clings on to a life raft.

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Christine Schrade-Keddy

“Not THAT kind of Baptist “ Minister/ Spiritual Memoir/ Sheologian/No Longer Living on a Boat/ Recovery/she-her/missistine.com/@revkeddy on Instagram