REJECTION: HOW DO I DEAL WITH IT?

REJECTION ** Best of all, we are offered what can become the groundwork for new hope. What human being hasn't had that experience? What residue has it left in our psyche? Having been rejected, we feel diminished, self?esteem crumbles and the memory hangs on like a wound that won't heal. Sr. Carole shows us how to deal with the need for approval, where we go with our sense of abandonment, what forgiveness achieves for us and for others We ponder special kinds of rejection: those involving family and friendship ties, being fired from a job, not making the grade as we pursue a goal. "All our losses are unique, so our ways of coping are unique." Our losses then move us on to a fresh understanding of past events and to a richer sense of our possibilities.

The songs WELCOME GOD © Copyright 2000 and A SIGN OF HOPE © Copyright 1997 by Sr. Charlene Schaaf, C.D.P. Used with permission.