"And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet." - Matthew 10:14 I was listening to a sermon by Joyce Meyers and she said something that caught my attention. She said that most of our pain comes from rejection. Wow did that hit home for me! So much of our pain comes from being rejected by people. We internalize their rejection and carry it with us for far too long, sometimes our whole life. Rejection that cuts us to the core. The word rejection is defined as: -verb 1. to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc 2. to throw out as useless or worthless; discard 3. to rebuff (a person) 4. (of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility -noun 5. something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless After reading these definitions, no wonder we take it so personally! When you read the definition it not only … [Read more...]