When they don't believe you the first time

In December 1531, in Mexico, an indigenous man called Juan Diego told the bishop that Our Lady had appeared to him and was asking for a church to be built there. The bishop didn't simply believe him: he asked for a proof. Juan Diego went back, and Our Lady told him to take the bishop some flowers that didn't grow at that time of year. When he opened his cloak in front of the bishop, the flowers fell out and the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared imprinted on it. Juan Diego was nobody important and wasn't taken seriously the first time. He didn't get angry or give up: he came back. It happens to all of us that we aren't believed: at home, at work, when we suggest something or tell what is happening to us. It hurts. But the truth doesn't depend on being believed right away. Sometimes it just asks for the patience to come back, without resentment, until it can be seen.