The Other Side of Rejection
...is called protection.
Below is a (rough) transcript of the video for those who prefer reading! I hope it blesses you and I’d love to hear your experiences on this topic of rejection and what you’ve learned.
Hello, so I’m sitting here at the computer and I’m like, “Ok, I’m gonna write my next Little Yellow Bird Substack article and then it popped in my head to just record something for you because I can do that on Substack now and I think it’s good to switch it up. I am totally a writer, but I’m also an expresser, a verbal processor. Anyway I’ve been talking a lot about a lot of stuff on Substack and on The Dreamer my other Substack and also on social media. One of the things I sat down and thought about the topic of rejection. I mean, what a topic. I’ve been dealing with rejection for a really long time and I’m, even as I’m, even as I’m videotaping this… do we say that anymore? videotaping… recording… even as I’m recording this I’m thinking about how rejection is so prevalent all the time just from the moment, but some people from the moment they’re born and some people choose careers like I did, you know, in the theater where you are having to deal with it on a daily basis. Some people deal with it in their families and some people will deal with it just going to the grocery store. But one thing I’m learning about rejection is, I don’t know if you’ve heard this before, is that it’s God‘s protection. If you are being authentic and you are being brave and courageous and totally who you are without apology then there will be people if, if, if you are encircled by people who are not able to engage in that authenticity, there will be people who drop off and some people drop off slowly and some people drop off quickly, and some people must be dropped off.
Anyway it’s not easy, no matter, no matter which way you look at it. But I was thinking about this story, Okay so I have…I’m on TikTok and I’m on Instagram and all these things and I was looking at….I was looking at the statistics. I was looking at my stats, which is always a dangerous thing to do, and I noticed that for the last, say, two weeks - ‘cause I’ve started, I’ve started speaking more and I’ve started speaking more about the things I want to speak about, telling little bird, Little Yellow Bird stories that I’ve written about. I’ve started talking about those things and I’ve been talking about how I feel what the Holy Spirit is doing in those stories, right? Stuff that as a reader of my Substack will come as no surprise to you. But what I’ve noticed is, ever since I started doing that I’ve had about four or five followers drop; unfollow me. Now if this had happened when I was younger, if this had happened a year ago, I don’t know maybe even six months ago, that might’ve just floored me. That might’ve stopped me for a second. That might have been, <fake crying>, really hurt me, but no, actually for the first time in my life and I really can say this, I rejoiced. I rejoiced at the unfollowing. Because I am no longer in this for the sake of being liked. I am in this for the sake of sharing the gifts that I have been given by God for God‘s glory. So I’m rejoicing that, and I’m also believing that the more authentic I am, that the more those who need the message and who need to lean into the message, whatever that message may be, will hop on, will hop on board.
So I guess that’s my Little Yellow Bird Substack for today. It’s a short video about protecting your inner circle and as those little, you know you’ve got your inner circle and your little circle after that, and a circle after that, and you get to put in who goes in all those circles. I’m being prayerful and protective about those circles and allowing God to tell you who goes in which area and being obedient to when people drop off.
Girl, I don’t know why I said “girl”, a lot of my followers are girls, but anyway girl, guy, I understand this topic. I understand what it is to lose people in your life who you thought were gonna be there forever, and I also understand the grieving process of that and I also understand the healing, and that there is healing on the other side of that. It’s, it’s not easy and it can be slow moving, but you don’t have to do it alone and you shouldn’t. Just keep looking up. Just keep looking up. OK, so anyway, if you are feeling like you are in a space where you felt rejected recently, turn it on his head. I like to do that. Turn it on his head and just ask God if, if he did that, if he did that for your sake… for your sake.
All right peace out. Happy Sunday.
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Well said Fleur! When you are living to serve God rejection is protection. It is also preparation for dealing with its extreme form, persecution . John 15:20
whatever your message may be, whatever your authentic self may wish to share, the fact that you shared this part of the journey is courageous and wonderful. Thank you for expressing this tough part, for wearing your heart on your sleeve. Thank you for giving this a voice and words.