GEORGE MACDONALD’S REJECTION
George MacDonald was a minister of a small Congregational parish in England in the middle of the Nineteenth Century. One day his deacons reported to him that it was impossible for them to continue his salary. He would have to move on. He innocently offered to remain and support himself by writing and teaching. His wife, however, had insight that George did not have. “George,” she said, “it isn’t that the people here are too poor to pay us. They don’t want us.” Can you feel the hurt in those words, “they don’t want us?” MacDonald had done everything he knew to be a faithful minister, he gave himself completely, only to realize the pain of personal failure, “they don’t want us.” MacDonald went on to distinguish himself as a poet and novelist, but the memory of that failure was always with him. We too may be faced with failure.
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