"I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject." - Jeanette Winterson
Steven was a young man that felt the call of God on his life. He came from a really
close family. He finished his college and then went off to seminary.
After finishing seminary he came back before going to his first church.
He visited with all of his relatives for about a week. He stopped by the
church and talked to his hometown Pastor. The Pastor asked him if he
would like to preach this Sunday. He felt honoured and agreed. Sunday
morning came and after days, of preparation he stepped up behind the
pulpit looked out at the congregation of friends and relatives and
started to expound the knowledge that he had learned. Well, his young
niece, Kathleen, about six years old - stepped out into the aisle and
put her hands on her hips - her left foot out in front of the other -
her head cocked to one side - then she said in a very loud voice for her
age. “Uncle Michael, You don’t know what you are talking about!”
On this burning subject of rejection; we have left out a category of
people even though we have considered being rejected by groups,
categories and classes of people we can relate with easily. We haven't
talked about toddlers. Everyone's carrying a cute little baby, you reach
out to the baby too, but it refuses your gesture. That's rejection,
it's hard to handle from anybody - but from a six year old it is really
tasking.
What happens when we get rejected by people far
younger than than we are; maybe a little 6 year old niece or nephew? Do
we fall and die or laugh over it? Yes, that's what we should learn to do
when our peers or society reject us - laugh over it!
