When You Were Pushed Out of the Place You Thought Was Home

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Post 39: “When You Were Pushed Out of the Place You Thought Was Home”

There are few hurts quite like being made to feel small in a place that was supposed to nurture you.
Maybe it was a preacher, a leader, or even an entire church community that overlooked you, shamed you, or treated you as if you didn’t belong.
Maybe you tried your best to serve, to show up, to be faithful — and still, you were pushed aside.

That kind of pain cuts deep.
Because spiritual homes are meant to heal, not wound.
To embrace, not exclude.
To reflect the heart of God, not the weight of human pride.

And yet… here you are. Carrying the ache of being misunderstood, unwanted, or cast out.

But please hear this: your story didn’t end there.

Sometimes the places that reject us were never meant to contain the fullness of who we are becoming.
Sometimes the very walls that boxed you in had to break so your voice could travel farther.
Sometimes God allows doors to close, not to shame you, but to free you — to call you into spaces that will actually need the light you carry.

If you had stayed where you were not seen, you would have remained small in their eyes.
But God never saw you as small.

He saw someone chosen.
He saw someone equipped.
He saw someone with a voice that needed to reach beyond those walls.

And so He led you out.
Not as a failure.
Not as an outcast.
But as someone being re-positioned for greater purpose.

The rejection you felt wasn’t the end of your calling — it was the redirection of it.

So if you’ve ever carried the shame of being looked down upon by the very people who were meant to shepherd you, let this truth take root in your heart:

💛 You are not unwanted.
💛 You are not forgotten.
💛 You are not disqualified.

You were chosen.
You were set apart.
And your voice is needed — maybe even more because of what you’ve walked through.

This isn’t the end of your story.
This is God lifting your voice to places that were waiting for you all along.