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I prayed like I had never prayed before, often waking up in the middle of the night, with an overwhelming compulsion to pray. God impressed Scriptures on my heart to pray for the pastor, the church, and the people in Berlin. I just knew that God had something special for me in Berlin! Unfortunately, I was a single, 19-year-old girl, without the resources (namely money) to make a trip to Berlin. But that didnt worry me. God was so clearly in me going, that surely He was going to make a way. After all, with God all things are possible, right? But when it came close to the time of the rally, and I still didnt have anything more than a dream, I had to accept the reality that it wasnt going to happen. My dream had died. I took this to the Lord in prayer. I didnt question His goodness or love for me, but I couldnt understand why He gave me such a passion to go to Berlin and then slammed the door in my face. I found the answer in the pages of Scripture. Romans 1:8- 13 was Gods specific, clear, unmistakable answer to the question of my heart. It reads, First, I think my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, who I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers, making request if, by some means, now at last I may find a way in the will of God to come to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established that is, that I may be encouraged together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. Now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that I often planned to come to you (but was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles. Those words were written by Paul, but they could have been written by me! How I prayed for these people! How I wanted to find a way in the will of God to come to them! How I longed to see them! And just like Paul, I had been hindered from going. When I read the words, That I may impart to you some spiritual gift I sensed the Lord speaking to me, Rebecca, there will come a time when you will go to Berlin, but if you go now, you will be going with nothing to impart to the people there. You will go in the future, and when you do, you will be going with something to impart. That was my answer, and I gladly embraced it. I kept praying for the people of Berlin and for this local church pastor. God regularly impressed Scriptures on my heart for him, and I began writing them down and mailing them to him. In my letters, I didnt tell him anything about my passion for the people of Germany, or of my unfulfilled desire to go to Berlin. My letters were totally focused on his ministry, and what I felt God was prompting me to pray for him. Rather than dissipating, my passion and burden for Germany increased, so much so that I decided to take some German language courses. In passing, I mentioned this in one of my letters to the pastor. He wrote back, If you want to learn German, the best way is for you to come here. If youd like to do that, I can arrange for you to stay with a woman in my congregation. Wow! This time the money was in the bank, and Id have a free place to stay. How exciting! So, about a year after my initial desire to go to Berlin, I found myself on a plane, headed to Europe. Amazingly enough, I had forgotten all about the passage of Scripture in Romans and Gods promise to me, but God had not forgotten. He was faithful to do what He had promised. Shortly after I buckled my safety belt on the plane, the passage in Romans came back to me. I prayed, Oh Lord, you said I would go with something to impart, but what do I have to impart to the people of Berlin? I have nothing! I know nothing! I have no speaking engagements, and no one even knows of my desire to minister. The pastor just thinks I want to learn German. God, is this a mistake? Mistake or no, there was nothing I could do about it; the plane had taken off and I was on my way to Berlin. A few days after my arrival, Sunday rolled around, so of course we went to church. By German standards, the church was huge, with approximately 1000 people. From across the sanctuary, I noticed a woman staring at me. This continued off and on throughout the service. I had no idea who she was, but I was determined to talk to her after the service. But when the service ended, the woman I was staying with introduced me to people around us, and by the time that finished, the mystery woman had disappeared. Later that week, I was invited to go to the church to help with mailing out a magazine the church produced. Shortly after arrival at the church, I ran into the mystery woman who had been staring at me during church. Come to find out, she was the childrens education director at the church which was exactly what I did in my church in California. After chatting for awhile, she asked me if I would like to go to a teachers training meeting that night. I agreed to go. After the meeting, she asked me if I would be willing to speak at another training meeting two weeks later. The next week, the pastor came to have coffee with me and the woman I was staying with. I told him about my plans to speak, and he asked, Who will interpret for you? When I replied, Gertraud will interpret for me, he said, Oh, let me interpret for you. I agreed, even though I was a bit intimidated by him; he was known internationally, and I was just a 20-year old girl who until then had never even been away from home, much less out of the country. This was my first time working with an interpreter, but he had done it many times and was very good at it. It was as if he knew what I was going to say before I even opened my mouth. 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By Jason Gesham In her essay Cosmetic surgery: Paying for your beauty, Debra Gimlin concludes that women who undergo plastic surgery help to reproduce some of the worst aspects of the beauty culture, not so much through the act of surgery itself as through their ideological efforts to restore appearance as an indicator of character (Gimlin, 107). I believe that women, who decide upon plastic surgery in order to feel better about themselves, have a stronger character than those who stay unhappy with their appearance, although it is obvious to me that women who do get plastic surgery will most likely fight a constant battle with society. Throughout this paper I will be proving my thesis along with discussing what Gimlin means by the above quote. I will compare Gimlins essay to Lisa Carvers article Surrender the Pink, in terms of whether or not the vagina is also an indicator of character, along with discussing the complicating factors that such a comparison between the types of surgery Gimlin discusses and the types Carver discusses. In Gimlins essay she points out a group of women who seem to believe that their culture is judging their outer appearances. These women responded to the judgment, with plastic surgery. It was clear that the women interviewed by Gimlin all had plastic surgery to correct a perceived flaw, and not to please anyone else. In the quote used in the before paragraph, Gimlin seems to be critical, not of the women who get plastic surgery, but of our culture that emphasizes what a beautiful person is. I believe what Gimlin means by appearance as an indicator of character (107) is that this is what she believes women use to judge themselves. Instead of looking at their values and beliefs, they think that others focus on their appearance above and before their character. She is saying that women who give in to plastic surgery to correct a self perceived abnormality are allowing our society to judge them based on super models on magazine covers or billboards. These women are forgetting that appearance is not an indicator of character, but that their character might be questioned after undergoing plastic surgery. Gimlin states, Simply put, if plastic surgery were a successful method for constructing identity, these women would argue that the surgically altered body rather than body work that has proved unsuccessful at shaping the body or establishing the self serves to symbolize identity (Gimlin, 106). This quote is very similar to the above quote. It is easier for women to connect their identity to a surgically altered body, than a body, which will not look how they want it to, no matter how much work they put into it. Although in the quote, I am also given the feeling that women who have had plastic surgery still cannot completely connect their identity to their new body. I believe that women need to learn to love themselves on the inside, before they change their outside. If they do not love themselves before the surgery, chances are they will not feel complete after the surgery. Women want to feel that they can identify themselves as being beautiful, and by turning to plastic surgery after much hard work has not paid off, they can feel better about themselves. Carvers essay focuses exclusively on vaginal cosmetic surgery, and how women feel about their own genitals. My vagina is like an emotion something other can see and judge, but that I cant really look at clearly (Carver, 1). I believe that female genitals are a more sensitive subject to most women that other parts of the body. What Carver is saying is that women have insecurities about almost every part of their bodies, but when it comes to their vagina the fears are much bigger. This is because the vagina is not seen everyday, only you get to choose who can look at it and every women wants to feel normal. Since these women do not know what normal is, except from what they have seen in Playboy, many women feel insecure about their genitals. In Gimlins essay the women tried to make it clear that they didnt necessarily feel judged by others about their appearance flaw, but they judged themselves in Carvers essay it is made clear that womens genitals are being judged both by themselves and by others. Carver says, Do some people go around saying these things about vaginas? (I checked in with my male friend afterwards, and discovered that indeed, terms like roast beef sandwich or the hanging garden are used by certain men to describe long lips) (Carver, 2). I do not believe that the vagina is an indicator of character, just as I do not believe that other body parts are indicators of character, but it is easy to see from the quote above, why women might be insecure about their genitals, when some men make rude comments about them. A persons character does not come from any body part, it comes from their inner feelings, emotions, and beliefs. Since Carver described her vagina as an emotion, one might argue that it does stand for character. But to me, Carver means that women have definite emotions around their vaginas, and if they look normal in societies standards. In one of Gimlins interviews that she documented in her essay, a woman named Ann Marie says that just because she turned to plastic surgery, it does not mean she is a bad and/or vain person. To her, she did not want her personal character to be judged upon her decision to get plastic surgery. In her case she worked hard to keep her body looking young, and when the skin on her face would not tighten, but the rest of her body looked as good as it did thirty years before, she got a facelift. This made her feel better about her outer appearance. When you compare this case to a case of vaginal plastic surgery in Carvers essay, the women seem to have similar views on what is a good reason to undergo plastic surgery. In and interview Carver had with a woman who had vaginal plastic surgery the woman said, I felt droopy and funny looking, one mother of two told me. No one complained, but I was inhibited. Now I feel fabulous! I look like a playboy centerfold (Carver, 2). No matter what kind of plastic surgery is being done, women seem to make it clear, in both readings, that plastic surgery makes them feel better about themselves and that is whats important. Gimlin states, Second, plastic surgery requires a defense. Much like the women I studied in the aerobic classes, those who underwent plastic surgery are working hard to justify themselves (Gimlin, 107). Because of this quote, I believe that women, who make choices in order to feel better about themselves, have a stronger inner character and will, than women who stay miserable with their appearances. In both Ann Maries case and the mother of twos case, these women have gotten rid of their beliefs that they do not look as good as other with plastic surgery, but they both have to defend there solution of plastic surgery. To me, women who feel it necessary to get plastic surgery just cannot win in society. Either they dont feel their appearance is suitable for their culture, or they have to defend their character when trying to do something about their appearance. There are a couple important factors that can complicate the comparison between the types of surgery Gimlin discusses and the types of surgery Carver discusses. The main and most obvious factor is that the surgeries described by Gimlin, were to improve the appearance of women, but they were surgeries that can be see by any person, any time. The women in Gimlins essay care more about how they look, to themselves and others, when they are fully clothed. In Carvers article, these women had surgery to make a private part of their bodies look better. It is clear that these women are more concerned with how they look to a certain, specific person or a set of people. In each of these readings the women were striving to change something about themselves that they think is abnormal, but the difference is that the surgeries discussed in Gimlins essay are more common and noticeable than the surgeries in Carvers article. Another factor that was mentioned in Carvers essay, but not Gimlins was the topic of power. Carver says, He (Dr. Matlock) shines a bright, hot light between your legs and offers you power over a part of yourself you dont understand. We could by harnessing his laserscopy machine, control our vaginas. Thats the snake oil hes offering. In the hour and a half I spent with him, he never mentioned men. It was power he was selling me. Carver brings up the issue of having power over what you want your vagina to look like. Gimlin never mentions having power or playing God. In the cases Gimlin describes, the doctor has the right to pick and chose his patients. If he does not think that they should receive the surgery, he can deny them of that. In Carvers article, each of the doctors she visited were trying to sell her the surgery. She mentioned that when looking at the before and after pictures the before pictures looked fine to her. The last doctor she had seen took the approach above and beyond by selling her the power of having the choice of what her vagina looks like. I believe that this is an oversight on Gimlins part because she did not find out how other doctors go about choosing their patients. She also made the doctor that she was working with aware that she was writing an article about him and his patients, therefore he was not going to say that he tries to sell his work. Because Carver went undercover for her article, she ended-up getting the more truthful side of plastic surgery. After careful reading and analyzing both of these articles, I can conclude that for some women plastic surgery is the way to go. Gimlin writes, Plastic surgery becomes for them not an act of deception but an attempt to align body with self (Gimlin, 102). There are obviously some pro and cons to plastic surgery, as there are with many other large decisions women make in their lives. But in my opinion, if getting the surgery help the woman gain confidence without losing her character and beliefs, then more power to her. 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