Ikaw lamang, Yahweh, ang lahat sa aking buhay, lahat ng kailangan ko’y iyong ibinibigay, kinabukasan ko’y nasa iyong mga kamay. Mga kaloob mo sa akin ay kahanga-hanga, napakaganda ng iyong pamana!

Awit 16:5–6

Have you ever walked into a room and felt like you don’t belong there? Wala kang kakilala o di kaya’y you felt out of place? O kung hindi unwanted, you feel like you have to earn your way to acceptance. You put on a mask so people would like you.

Ganito ang kuwento ng buhay ni Rachel. Her father left them for another woman. Since then, hindi na nawala ang feeling niyang she’s unwanted. Kahit saang grupo, she feels like she doesn’t belong. So to survive, she has to be the best so she won’t be rejected.

Rejection can come in many forms — when we don’t get invited, when another person gets the blessing instead of us, or when the people we thought would be there leave us. Anuman ang situation, rejection hurts at kapag hindi ito na-resolve, it would keep on resurfacing even as we grow older.

Buti na lang, we can hold on to Psalm 16:5–6 which reminds us of a beautiful truth: we are not overlooked by God. In fact, He has already set aside a place for us, a “good inheritance,” sabi sa verse.

Sa pamilya ng Diyos, hindi tayo out of place at hindi tayo rejected. Even when doors close for us or we miss an opportunity, inili-lead tayo ni Lord sa lugar that He has prepared for us. Merong nakalaan na blessing para sa mga taong nagtitiwala sa Diyos. What a beautiful promise!