The rejection email might be the most protective thing God sent you all year.

A closed door is painful first and legible only later. What looked like the obvious right path can turn out to have led somewhere you would not have wanted, and you rarely learn that at the time, which is why the comfort in this line is offered rather than proven. It is permission to hold the disappointment loosely, not an instruction to be grateful for it.

Feel the loss honestly for a while. Then take the next available step rather than the one you had planned. Look back on it in a year and see what you think.