I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have struggled with rejection in various forms and ways my whole life, actually I think most people do. We all want to be accepted and cared for, needed and loved for who we are, just the way we are, while we grow, develop and mature.

So the other day, I was turned down for a job position I was interested in, and I decided to do something different than I’ve done previously when that would happen. I threw my hands up in the air and said, “Praise God! I may have been rejected for this job offer, but I have not been rejected by God! If God be for me who can be against me, God you are working all things together for my good!” and I smiled really big and laughed out loud. Nobody was there to watch and listen, but I felt better about how I’d handled that little bit of loss.

Then the thought came to me, ‘rejection from man is nothing to fear, it only means it wasn’t part of God’s perfect plan for you. It is a stepping stone to something better for you. Don’t give up!”

Driving home that day, still thinking it all over and still smiling and feeling really, pretty good that I’d stayed on top of the turndown, another thought popped into mind…

“Look at rejection as redirection.”

That made perfect sense. That took all the focus off me, and mine, and fear, and how come, and I don’t understand and whatever else you might want to think, and I saw it as…God has something else better planned and I was being redirected to that.

Try it yourself next time ugly rejection tries to attack you. Laugh at it and say, ‘Ha! I’m not rejected, I’m being redirected!!!