Episode 28: Rejection

All of us have experienced rejection, which Dr. Solomon describes as the lack of meaning love. All people need to feel secure and significant. Security speaks to who I am and includes the need to feel important, needed, wanted, understood, and missed. Significance speaks to what I do and speaks to the need that what I am doing is needed, that am I making an impact, and does my life have meaning. In this episode, Mark and Dr. John describe the difference between overt and covert rejection. Overt rejection may be abuse or hurtful and negative statements. Covert rejection comes in the forms of the death of a loved one, overprotection, and favoritism of a sibling. Dr. John makes the point that rejection may not be intentional and that children are good observers but not good interpreters. A child may hear he wasn't planned by his parents, but he is in the plan of God. Rejection is a leading cause of rebellion and it affects all relationships. We reject people and often they will reject us back. However, we may reject God but He never rejects us! Mark and John walk through the emotional attitudes and reactions of rejection toward self, toward spouses/children, and God. Dr. John mentions a website: www.fathersloveletter.com Dr. John quote, "God knows us best and loves us most." Finally, we discuss how to overcome rejection, which is acceptance. Ephesians 1:6 states that we are "accepted in the Beloved." We need to accept our acceptance! We are saved and kept by grace and we are accepted by this same grace. God welcomes us and we are not on probation. Could it be that God is wearing the white shirts with two rust stains to show how creative His kids are?