Accepting permanent in-betweenness—neither fully "here" nor "there"—as a distinct spiritual condition and source of insight rather than temporary displacement.
Rabia lived in permanent spiritual liminality, her entire being oriented toward a Beloved always beyond reach in this world. Diaspora existence involves objective threshold living: not fully belonging to nation of origin or adopted nation, suspended between languages, cultures, and legal statuses. Rather than framing this as temporary displacement awaiting resolution through return or assimilation, threshold living acknowledges liminality as a permanent condition generating distinctive consciousness and wisdom. Found families often consist of threshold people—those who can never fully return, fully arrive, or fully belong to any single location or identity. This framework honors the particular insights and capacities that emerge from inhabiting boundaries: flexibility, cultural translation, ability to hold multiple truths simultaneously, and attunement to systemic exclusion. Members of found family in diaspora learn to construct home not as location but as network of relationships; identity not as essence but as conscious creative practice. Following Rabia's example, threshold living becomes not deficit but vocation, offering communities unique capacity for compassion, wisdom, and spiritual depth unavailable to those embedded in singular belonging.
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