Today’s passage, “Rejection is God’s protection” Unfortunately, it is unclear to me the origin of this quote, however I am not sure it matters all that much to me because I rebuke this saying altogether. 

I rebuke it!

The idea that rejection in one’s life is protection from something that isn’t well-suited for you; a relationship, a job, and etcetera is very off putting---

This saying appears to be used as crutch for acceptance of any given life situation.

Decades ago, I moved to New York in hopes of landing a job at a TV network where I had been working for its affiliate in Atlanta. My aim was to write and produce TV shows.  Well, after 3 or 4 interviews and a verbal nod that the job was likely mine, I didn’t get it.  The role went to an internal employee who apparently applied last minute.  Instead, I found myself cocktail waitressing at a comedy club on 8th avenue across from the Port Authority bus station, which was known back then as the porn district and this particular club was co-owned by Richard Basciano dubbed the ‘Porn King’ of the 70s with ties to the Gambino Mob Family. This is where I worked. The comedy club was built on top of a peep show/strip club that still semi-operational, so in order to get to the ‘ club’ the waitstaff had to cut through the peep show/DVD store.

All this to say, I do not believe rejection is protection.  In this one off example, the job I found to pay my bills, which was the comedy club aka peep show, was a lesson in courage and fortitude as I was a young woman from Alabama with very little life experience.  

What if instead of saying, ‘Rejection is God’s protection' we recognized that rejection, in all forms, is a lesson in self-acceptance, an opportunity to flip our perspective in understanding that we must now love ourselves all the more.

 God’s rejection --- is a lesson in self-acceptance.

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