What feels like rejection is sometimes the most loving form of protection. God is not withholding from you. He is keeping you from something that would’ve cost you more than you knew.

• the door keeps closing no matter how hard you push on it
• things start to feel off the closer you get to what you thought you wanted

your prayers about it have started to change without you noticing

– Jacqueline Whitney

• you have a peace about walking away, even though everything in you wants to stay
• timing keeps falling apart in ways you can’t explain
• something inside of you knows, even when your mind is still trying to convince yourself otherwise
• your prayers about it have started to change without you noticing
• the version of you that wanted it doesn’t quite exist anymore
• you keep being redirected toward something completely different

• you’ve stopped sleeping well around the situation, the person, the decision
• you feel relief at the thought of letting it go, even though letting go scares you
• the people you trust most are gently telling you what you already know
• God is louder in his quiet about this one than he’s been about anything else

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.