God Invites You to Enter a Mystery
"Rejection is an immense mystery, one of the many that God places before us. Like all the other mysteries, there is a door and there is a handle. In due time, we are invited to open that door and enter into that mystery.
"Sometimes it takes many years before someone faces rejection. It may come in childhood. Sometimes it comes in very early years or during adolescence. It may come in middle age or in old age.
"It is a mystery. One is incapable of either apprehending or comprehending it. It has to be entered into. The door must be opened, and we must cross its threshold. Then we must allow ourselves to follow the intricate paths of its roads, which are sometimes wide and straight, and sometimes twisted and complicated.
"The first realization, which will hit us hard, is that we have entered the rejection of Christ. That is why it is a mystery — because Christ entered it, he lived it, he experienced it. Anything that God experienced is a great mystery for all mankind and for each one personally. It is Christ's grace alone that allows us to open that door, to cross the threshold, and to face rejection side by side with Christ."
