Yo! If you are a female you need to listen to this PSA I’m about to tell you—it will change your life!
Are you tired of tampons and pads?
Do your periods get messy?
Do you want to save over $18k during your lifetime by not having to buy feminine products for the rest of your life?
If so, let me tell you about this revolutionary product… The Diva Cup!
“What is it,” you may ask; well let me tell you! It is the best thing in the world, since sliced bread!
My testimony:
I began using the Diva Cup about two years ago when my sister gave me one, and as soon as I started using it I just had to begin to tell everyone about it—I wanted their lives to be as radically changed as mine has been! You see, I no longer have to worry about having a tampon to change when my other one became saturated, plus I have saved so much money in the process! I fell in love with this product and how it has been able to benefit my life and now I want to help other females out and change their lives too!
-Bethany Grayczyk, faithful user since 2015
Here on the Race I am on an all-girls team and because of that we talk about anything and everything—including periods and all of the works—and the things we get the most excited about are diva cups.
So, if I am willing to get this excited about a diva cup, why am I not as passionate about sharing the Gospel—something that will actually change people’s lives?
I mean, I could go up to pretty much any female I see and tell them about the diva cup, because I don’t care if they think I am crazy. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t do that—I have some dignity and social awareness—but I have enough enthusiasm that I could.
The first three days of this month in Romania our entire squad was sent out to evangelize to the people of Alba Iulia and to be very honest, I was terrified. Yet, that doesn’t make any sense. Why can I get so hyped up about something as mundane as the diva cup, yet when it comes to a topic that truly matters—one that is legitimately a matter of life and death—I freeze up and can hardly get out the words, “Hi, my name is Bethany, can we talk for a few minutes?” Like, I’m not even talking about the Gospel at that point!
Heck, we were even given prompt questions from our ministry host about what to ask, and I could still barely make the words come out of my mouth.
Although if I am being real and honest, this shouldn’t surprise me—I didn’t really share my faith with people back home, so I don’t know why I had the notion in my head that I would come on the World Race and suddenly have an out-of-this-world boldness for sharing Jesus with others—it’s a spiritual discipline for a reason and disciplines take dedication and work. But just because something is uncomfortable or requires extra work, doesn’t excuse my lack of doing it. I mean I managed to get through six years of engineering school and become the first person at my university to graduate with a double major in bioengineering and mechanical engineering through work, lots of hard work—blood, sweat, and tears (well mostly tears, but some blood and sweat too).
And if I’m being very honest, if I took and applied even half of the dedication and perseverance I showed to engineering school to learning how to apply and applying God’s great commission (Matthew 28:19-20; ‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.’) to my everyday walk in life, and trusted that He would provide, I would probably be a lot bolder with my faith that I am currently. After all, while engineering is important, the Gospel and a relationship with God is a matter between life and death. And not only that, it is incredibly selfish of me to be scared of sharing the Gospel—who knows, I may be the only person that the young lady at the grocery store that I was picking out vegetables next to encounters who knows Christ; yet, I let my fears of looking crazy or being scoffed at lose a chance to increase the size of the Kingdom of Heaven… and that is a truly sobering and heart-wrenching realization. I don’t ever want to know that because of my fears someone isn’t going to make it into God’s Kingdom—that’s just selfish, unimaginably selfish. Thankfully though, God has an unlimited supply of grace that He continues to bestow upon me during those times I let a chance to tell someone about Him slip away.
However, as my friends have heard me quote thousands of times, “that’s a reason, not an excuse.” My reason for not sharing the Gospel with the person next to me in the grocery store or standing next to me at the bus stop—being afraid—is real and valid; but it’s not an excuse and I should never let it stop me. Again, another quote I use a lot is, “it just takes 30 seconds of courage to make a world of a difference”—and it is never more true than when applied to this situation. Besides, what’s the worst that could happen—they think I am crazy and we are right back to where we started? They probably already think I am crazy for one reason or another. (And yeah, you guessed it, that’s another one of my catchphrases.)
During one of our teachings this month our squad mentor Teresa quoted Theodore Roosevelt, who said “at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” This is how I want to live my life—daring greatly for the Kingdom of God, not caring if I fail because I know that I have given my all for the betterment of His Kingdom, living my life to the fullest in order to continually serve, and bring glory to, God.
So, in reality, the best thing in the world isn’t the diva cup, but rather God’s ability to accept each and every one of us, regardless of where we are at in our walks of life, so long as we are willing to jump in and give Him our all. And the eternal life that we receive as a free gift thanks to Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross will be 10,000 times more beautiful that we can even begin to imagine.
(But the diva cup is a close second.)
