Everyday Woman-Part 2
Podcast Show Notes:
The Teachable Woman Podcast
Title: The Everyday Woman – Part 2
- Introduction: In this episode of The Teachable Woman Podcast, hosts Reverend Michele Owes and Reverend Diana P. Cherry continue their discussion on the everyday experiences of women. Building on the themes explored in part one, they delve deeper into the pressures of societal standards of beauty and the importance of embracing one's true identity.
- Recap of Part 1: Reverend Michele and Reverend Diana briefly recap the key points covered in part one, emphasizing the role of God's word in shaping our responses and reactions as women. They reiterate the message of finding joy in being fearfully and wonderfully made.
- Exploring Societal Pressures: The hosts delve into the societal pressures women face to conform to unrealistic standards of beauty. They discuss the harmful impact of these pressures on women's self-esteem and mental well-being, highlighting the dangers of seeking external validation through drastic alterations to one's appearance.
- Embracing Authenticity: Reverend Michele and Reverend Diana emphasize the importance of embracing authenticity and finding contentment in God's perfect creation. They encourage listeners to celebrate their uniqueness and resist the urge to mold themselves into society's expectations understanding that God did not make a mistake when He made them.
- Impact on Self-Image: The hosts discuss the negative impact of societal standards on women's self-image and confidence. They share personal anecdotes and insights into overcoming feelings of inadequacy and finding confidence in one's true identity.
- Encouragement and Empowerment: Reverend Michele and Reverend Diana offer words of encouragement and empowerment to women struggling by reminding them that God loves them and that the work He does with us after creation is an "inside job". They remind listeners that they are made in God's image and urge them to find peace and satisfaction in their identity as His creations.
- Closing Remarks: As the episode concludes, the hosts reaffirm their message of love and encouragement to listeners. They invite women to join them for the next installment of The Everyday Woman series, where they will continue exploring themes of empowerment and self-discovery.
Stay tuned for the next episode of The Teachable Woman Podcast as Reverend Michele and Reverend Diana dive deeper into empowering topics for women of all walks of life.
Transcript
The Everyday Woman – Part 2
[00:00:00]
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Welcome back. Welcome back to the
Teachable Woman Podcast. I am Reverend Michele Owes and
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I am Reverend Diana P. Cherry
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: And we are,
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Teachers of Good Things.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Absolutely. We are back with part number two of the Everyday Woman. In part one, Reverend Diana P. Cherry shared with us that as women we have a response mechanism. Our response mechanisms can cause us to react in different ways.
[00:01:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Sometimes it's crying, sometimes it's walking away, sometimes it's anger. We also learned that the word of God is to shape that response mechanism within us so that we can respond in a way that God would be glorified.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: And we learned that we were fearfully and wonderfully made and marvelous are the works of God's hands. Mrs. Cherry expounded on how God spent quiet time with us and how he shaped us beautifully.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes,
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Then we learn from that we should remember when we wake up and go out every day, that we are fearfully and wonderfully made,
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We should remember that God loves us with an unfailing love.
[00:02:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right and that should give us joy. He made no mistakes in how He made us. And speaking of making no mistakes, when we look at how the world flashes all of these images to us every day, where you have to have an extra-large hinder part and an extra-large front part or whatever part you're working with.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: That's right. That's right.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Or you must have a tiny, tiny, tiny waistline. There's so much that is thrown before us that causes us not to remember. Then some women don't even know they were fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right. We are skillfully handcrafted by God during the quiet time that he had with us, with no interference, no input, just skillfully handcrafted, made by God.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. The world has told us that we need fillers. Take some things out and put some things in and we're, and some so many women don't even know that they were handcrafted by God.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right, right. To be loved, you don't need to be recrafted.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: The Master Builder has already crafted you. You don't need to be recrafted.
[00:03:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You don't need to redesign something perfect. When God made man, that was the apex of His creation. I used to teach the women that He went into the best and He took a side. God went in the best that He had created and made, and He took the best of the best out of the best.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: And with that, he made us so we're the super best.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: You are saying that He took the best out when He made us.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Because Adam, he was God’s best.
[00:04:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Absolutely. Absolutely. I think it's important for us to just remember that we don't have to put unnecessary pressure on ourselves to be something or to look like something that appears a certain way. The beauty that is in us and that was handcrafted by God.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: When you meet the right person, they're able to see it.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right. We don't need, we don't need so many artificial enhancements. When you get to be my age, it's so irrelevant. You know, it's so irrelevant. My gray hair is my gray hair. I earned every strand of it. I won't endanger my brain by putting dye on my hair that's so close to my brain.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Right.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I can't.
[00:05:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: I think that it's just good to know. We understand that there are, there are times in life when things happen, like accidents.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Some injuries cause us to need extra help.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah, but just to look a certain way to it's just undue pressure on us.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It is.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: When we try to do, and to be, and to appear like something other than the handcrafted person that God made, I wonder, how does God feel?
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I wonder about that so often.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We are trying to recraft what he already crafted.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: He made us perfectly, He made us, we're perfect in the making. We don't act like perfect people, but He made no mistake. He did a perfect job when he made us.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: So true.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
[00:06:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: The fearfully and wonderfully made part says that we're distinct and unique. There's nobody else like us, not shaped like us, or looking exactly like us because each of us is unique.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That is why I used to have a fellowship for children, and it was called, None Like Us. None Like Us is not in our trying to be like the world, but in our being distinctively different from the world, so I don't have to conform to worldly standards, worldly ideas, worldly designs, and worldly clothes. A holy and righteous God fearfully and wonderfully makes me.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: And God didn't make a mistake when he made me.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: That's a beautiful thing to know. We must teach it to our children,
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
[00:07:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, our daughters. I don't know. I'm sure there are some statistics, but I don't think the Adams of this world, the men, are out there trying to enhance everything the way that women are.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That's why God put the man into a deep sleep. And in that deep sleep, he had to become comfortable with who he was,
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It is also our heartfelt yearning that every woman, young, middle-aged, and older, would know and understand that God handcrafted you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: If we could be who He's created us to be, in the body that He crafted for us there can be a place of peace and a place of wholeness. We are NOT, we're not judging, just saying…
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
[00:08:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We know that there's nothing wrong if I don't have a 38-28-38.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right, right.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: I might have a 32 or even a 30.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Whatever it is, whatever I have, I was handcrafted by a holy God, and it's well.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right. Right. I don't think God minds us enhancing our looks a bit. You know? I don't think he minds that, but to make massive alterations to that which was made perfectly. I don't think it pleases God very much.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It can also become a health challenge as well.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Exactly.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: That's always.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: A man challenge.
[00:09:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, I watch a TV show sometimes about failed surgeries and botched surgeries, and I feel so sad for those women who didn't know who they were and spent thousands of dollars for naught. They are worse off now than they were before. They tried to change what God had wonderfully and fearfully made.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I have a young male relative in my life. He was telling me that a friend has had everything on earth done to her body, and she still doesn't think that she looks good enough. We must be careful because it can become an obsession. You know?
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: It is our responsibility as women of God, as senior women of God to share with the women, not judge them, but share with them that they don't have to do all of that, you know?
[00:10:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Amen.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah. The most important thing is that you be pleasing and acceptable unto God, not unto some man who's only going to use you, misuse you, abuse you, and ditch you.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Well, that's a lot.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah, you know, remember the teaching about the gold diggers. You know, we're virtuous women. We are a mine. We're a gold mine, and there are just too many miners out here looking to go into our mines, dig a little gold out here and there, and leave us.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: I understand exactly what you're saying. It's just our hope that women can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and understand what God went through to make us.
[00:11:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, yes,
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Appreciate the time that He spent to craft you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Think of all that He did to bring you into the earth; cause your father to look at your mother, all that He did to make you who you are. There are so many things that we can work on in our lives to bring us a greater level of peace and a greater level of productivity than external things.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Because external things are just that and they don't last always.
[00:12:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I don't care how many times you get them tucked and lifted and stretched, they're still going to tear apart, and they are still going to droop. We are not perfect beings, and God didn't create us to be perfect in looks, but in character and integrity. Some things are important, much more important than how I look.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: That is so true. When you meet a person who is one with themselves, you've met someone.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: When you meet someone who understands who they are, and there is no fear about who they are, know that there is a oneness with their Creator.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: You know, you've met someone.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Contrary wise, I've been introduced to people and felt like I never really met them because there's not that oneness with who they are. There's this level of discomfort and dissatisfaction. One of the things that we've always learned through our teachings at church is that the flesh is never satisfied.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Never. Never. You can’t.
[00:13:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Sometimes we start off thinking it's going to be just one surgery or one tuck or one something, but it, the flesh can never be satisfied…
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: No. Maybe there are no men who would think like this, but I feel sorry when I meet people who've done so much to themselves and it's so obvious that it's manmade. It is not made by God. Anything that's manmade, it's going to fade away. It's going to change. We are going to age.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Mm-hmm.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You know, we are going to age.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I don't care how many tucks you get or how many lifts you get, we are still going to age.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: And I pray that whoever is listening to this, that the enemy does not allow you to hear our conversation as condemnation.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Exactly.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: I pray that the spirit of God would help you to understand that this is out of love.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right, and we're encouraging you.
[00:14:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Some of us have walked into very dangerous situations with people who are not even licensed. Some people just put up a sign outside, but we're trying to get the best price for what we say that we want, and we come back harmed.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: To avoid all of that, we want you to know that you were fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We want you to know that you have a God who loves you, who is waiting on you to acknowledge Him as your creator, as your Savior, as the one who's going to provide for you, who's going to protect you, and promote you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: He will position you. He is ready for you. And His arms are outstretched still, He's waiting.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, He is.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We want you to know that there's nothing you can do that can cause Him not to love you.
[00:15:00] Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, because He made us. We're fearfully and wonderfully made. Reconcile that in your heart. You might have wrinkles, and so do I. You might have too much weight in one place. So does everybody, you know where. I have never met a person who is satisfied with how they looked or what they had.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Just be at peace with who God made you to be.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Yes,
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You know, we're not condemning, but we are encouraging you to be satisfied. Just be who you are. God didn't make a mistake. You're perfect in his eyes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. And you know what? You're right! If you were endowed with a hinder part, those who have the hinder part don't want it.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Right?
[00:16:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Those who have the chest don't want it. They're trying to reduce it. Those who don't have it are trying to get it.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It's like we are never satisfied with what our creator has done.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: So, I want you to be encouraged. Respect yourself, love yourself. God didn't make a mistake when he made you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: You know, you are perfectly made in his sight and He loves you and we love you. And because we love you, we share our hearts with you.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. Amen. We are hoping and we're trusting that this sharing today will save lives.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Amen.
[00:17:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: We've also lost beautiful women who went to become another idea of what they thought was beautiful, and they're no longer with us. We're hoping to save you some time, some emotion, and some money. Amen!
We hope that you can receive this out of a heart of love because that is the only kind of heart that shared with you today. Amen.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yeah.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: All 30 seconds. 30 seconds to pour. Go.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Okay. Just be the best that you can be. Do the best that you can do. Don't let other people judge you. Don't let other people persuade you to be other than who God made you to be. You are a woman made by God, made to be good, made to look good, and looking good doesn't mean that you have to alter your body or anything that God made for you.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Amen. Amen. My 30 seconds, God loves you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
[00:18:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: God loves you. Trust that what He moved upon our hearts to share with you today, because this was not in our notes. Our podcast is unscripted. We have a topic that we're going to share, but I believe that God is saving lives today.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Mm-Hmm.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: Some women will conclude because God crafted them, that they don't have to recraft what has already been crafted by the Master.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: He's the Master and He is the Master creator, and He created you for good works and the right man will see you for who you are.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes.
Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It's not going to be your body parts that cause Him to know you. It’s going to be who you are on the inside, the work that God does with us always, it's an inside job.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: Yes, it is.
[00:19:00] Speaker Rev. Michele Owes: It's an inside job and the inside job is the one that lasts. Okay, that's it for us in part two. We are coming back for part three. Stay with us. We have more to share. We love you. We love you.
Speaker Rev. Diana P. Cherry: I love you. And thank you for being with us.
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