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From Isolation to Inspiration: Veronica's Faith-Filled Journey

• Lyanette Talley • Episode 75

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What if you could witness a miracle through relentless faith? Join me, Lyanette Talley, as we journey through a story of unshaken faith and miraculous healing, the narrative of Veronica. This woman, having been isolated for twelve long years, teaches us about determination, the power of seeking help, and the importance of placing faith over fear.

We draw parallels to our own lives, emphasizing the principle of not being afraid to ask for help and trusting in divine timing. Veronica's story also brings to light the concept of everyday warriors, those of us who muster courage to instigate transformation in our lives.

As we wrap up, we reflect on Veronica's struggle and triumph, a testament to the power of faith and an inspiration for us all. Her journey is a beacon of hope for all those facing adversity, reminding us that it's okay to bloom at our own pace, and in our unique way. Embrace your inner warrior and join us on this enlightening journey of faith, healing, and transformation.

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Lyanette Talley:

Hi, I am your host, Lyanette Talley, and you are listening to Virago 24-7. Virago is Latin for female warrior and 24-7 is for all day, every day. Virago 24-7 is a weekly podcast that brings diverse women together to talk about life and our experiences in this world. We share our views on self-love, mental health, marriage, children, friendships and really anything that needs to be talked about. Here you will find everyday growth, everyday healing with everyday warriors.

Lyanette Talley:

Hey everybody, what's going on? Hope you've been having a good past. I think it's been two weeks since last time I was here. Hope everyone's doing well. I am doing great working and working at the office and my youngest went back to school, so we're, and she goes to a homeschool program, so I have to drive her a few times a week, about 30 minutes away. So it's been nice getting back on a routine and, yeah, hope everybody's doing well going back to school.

Lyanette Talley:

And as we were driving today Korynn up to Ballet and she does math tutoring so as we were driving up there this morning, she was all excited about fall is here and almost here, and that got me excited too. I love fall weather and football season so, yeah, we're excited about that. We like summer. Summer's always fun going out of town, but we love our fall and yeah. So, as always, I love being here with you guys today and by myself.

Lyanette Talley:

So we got a solo podcast today and it's so crazy because sometimes I don't even know what I'm going to talk about. Actually, not, sometimes, a lot of times I have no idea what I'm going to talk about. When I'm by myself, when I have people, I can feed off people's energy and I know things to ask and keep the conversation going, but when I'm by myself, I half the time don't even know what I'm going to talk about. So if you've heard me talk, you guys know that I have my faith and that I believe in God and I pray and I meditate and I do all the things. So I just wait for a message to hit me and then I'm like, oh, I'm going to talk about that, and then it'll be like a small little snippet and then I kind of do research and kind of elaborate on that. So that's what happened last week Phillip and I.

Lyanette Talley:

We were watching the Chosen and I've talked about that show before. But we were watching the Chosen and for those who don't know what that is, it's a show about Jesus and his disciples, and the reason we love it is because it really it's one of those shows that brings them to life, like really to life. I know there's a lot of movies and things that have been done in the past, but they really have personalities that you can connect to and the stories that you hear in the Bible it's like they bring them to reality in a way that you feel it. And so the very last episode that we watched because we're a little behind, we've been busy so we haven't been watching it consistently but if you've heard and they had shown this character before in another episode, but this was kind of like the culmination of it coming to fruition, the story of the bleeding woman. So if anybody knows anything about the Bible and I'm not an expert, so I'm just giving you what I know and also what the show is about. But it's this woman who's been bleeding for years, and for 12 years to be exact, and she's an outcast, she lives way away from the town because when you're bleeding you're unclean and it's this whole thing that I have not an expert on, but I just know that there's women that were bleeding, had to be away from people and you couldn't touch them and all the things. So they show her going to the water by herself to clean her robes because she just bleeds through them and basically just living this isolated life. And so there's a day where I believe he's a priest and his daughter is very sick and he's like Jesus, I need you to come to my house, I need you to heal her. And so Jesus is like yes, of course. So he's going and she hears the and, with my research, let's give her a name, because with my research, I read in multiple places on multiple websites that her name could have been Veronica. So let's call her Veronica, not the bleeding woman. So let's give her a name.

Lyanette Talley:

So Veronica heard that Jesus was coming into the town and she's like oh my gosh, if I can just be near him, maybe just touch him. And she knew that touching him was prohibited. So just even the edge of his cloak, if I can just touch it, I know I'll be healed. I just know it, I know it. So Jesus is going through the crowds and there's like a mob when they see him. So imagine him in the middle and just everyone surrounding him like Jesus, jesus, jesus.

Lyanette Talley:

So she's trying to get through this crowd and you see her just like desperately trying to get close to him. And it's crazy because, like you feel it, like you're just like okay, okay, she's so close and she felt so desperate because he was getting away and, you know, because he's trying to get to this 12 year old girl to heal her. And so she finally just falls to the ground and just grabs a hold of this very small corner of his cloak and you can see this energy just being kind of dragged out of him and he felt it and he stopped and she falls to the ground and he turns around. He's like who touched me? Like who who touched me? And and the disciples are like well, everyone's touched you. There's a mob out here so it could have been anybody. He's like no, someone touched me on purpose and it just took the energy out of me. So she's like sheepish, like she's freaking out, like oh my gosh, I'm going to be in trouble.

Lyanette Talley:

And she's on the ground and the crowds part and she's like on the ground and he sees her and he's like did you touch me? And well, he says he says I'm trying to remember, he says my daughter, look up. And she says I'm nobody's daughter. And he says you are a daughter. And she's on the ground and he's kind of standing over her and she and she's like nervous and she's just like she just goes on to say that you know, I knew if I just touched your cloak that I would be healed, that you know, I just knew it. And he says it wasn't my clothing that healed you, it was your faith. And he says and I don't think this is in the Bible they kind of paraphrase a lot and add to the show to kind of bring it to life. But when I read it in the Bible it doesn't go into this whole lengthy thing. But he says you have blessed me today.

Lyanette Talley:

And this is where I start bawling. I'm listening to this and you see her crying and you see her kind of terrified like oh my gosh, I'm in trouble because I touched him. And there was another person who was like I can take her. And he's like no, leave her, leave her. We're having, basically, we're having a moment, just leave us alone. And this is where I just start bawling because he looks at her and he's like you've blessed me today. I know, my daughter, it has been a fight for you for so long you must be exhausted. And she's crying and she's nodding and like, yes, yes, like he sees me, like it's like he saw her and she was seen for the first time, like, yes, been exhausted for so long. And he says to her go in peace, your faith has made you well.

Lyanette Talley:

And when I said I cry like a baby, because sometimes we just go through life and you just feel like, all right, I overcame this, all right, wonderful, now I can breathe. And then something else happens and it's like, okay, let me overcome this, let me learn the lessons, let me, you know, learn the things, and then you overcome that and then something else. So it's just like sometimes it feels like this never ending thing and it doesn't matter what walk of life you're in, it doesn't matter. Like right now I have friends that you know, lately we're sharing our stories and we're all going through something and it's all very different and it all looks very different, but we're all feeling the same. It doesn't matter that, okay, this might be worse or that might be not as bad, but our feelings are valid and our feelings are the same and everything that we are feeling, as we're feeling exhausted, just emotionally exhausted.

Lyanette Talley:

And when I saw that I was crying boo, hoo, hoo tears, philip was like consoling me. I'm like I felt that in my soul and I mean I just feel like as women, we're carrying the mental load. Even if we're married, we're carrying the mental load and we're dealing with sicknesses and illnesses and being a mother and being a daughter and being a good friend and being a good wife and being all the things. And even if you've seen the Barbie movie, we went like after the fact I had heard about the monologue that was in there by America Ferrera and if you don't know, look it up, I'm not gonna read it right now but it's this whole monologue about women and all the contradictions that go along with being a woman, all these things that we have to uphold. But then there's a contradiction to that and it's just exhausting.

Lyanette Talley:

So feeling that I'm like, wow, this woman is so tired and she was like I just need some healing and I just need some peace in my life and that's all she wanted. And it just got me to think there has to be some lessons from that, because with anything, I always wanna find the lesson in it. Why was I touched? Why was I crying? Why did it affect me so much? And it's just when he said you must be exhausted. You've been fighting for so long, you must be exhausted. And I know that most of us, if not all of us, women can truly feel that in our spirit and in our soul, and that's why it touched me so much. So it got me thinking what are the lessons? Let's look it up. What can we learn from Veronica?

Lyanette Talley:

And so I go research in and I'm looking for articles, because I know someone's written something out there about you know, about Veronica. So I found this article on rocksolidfaithca and it was the seven lessons that you can learn from the bleeding woman, and Number one. Number one was patience. It says you know that this woman had to wait 12 long years to receive her healing and she didn't lose patience and even when her condition seemed hopeless and she felt hopelessness, she knew that her healing would come eventually. Her patience teaches us to trust God's timing in our lives. And isn't that the truth? Cause I know my patience is not always the best and we want when we want it, when we want it, and we want it now and realizing that it all is in his timing, and you know as frustrating as it can be, it's always in his timing. Number two from that list was the courage to seek help. You know, it says Veronica was brave enough to seek help Despite the social stigma attached to her condition. She knew that she needed help and was willing to go to great lengths to find it. Her story reminds us we should never be afraid to ask for help when we need it. And you know that's interesting.

Lyanette Talley:

I just had this conversation with my friend Adrienne, who was a missionary in the Dominican Republic and she was, I think she did that for for sure over seven years and then in the past two to three years she's moved back to the States, went to seminary school and now she's back in Georgia, in Atlanta, georgia, and she's pastoring. But she was just saying, you know, coming back to the United States, how she sees the difference in how we all live. You know, americans wanna live in isolation and we wanna do things on our own because we're strong and we don't wanna ask for help and we just kind of all live in our bubbles. And she was saying, like in other cultures, you know, and for her the Dominican Republic, she's been around those, that culture and those people, they are more about community and coming together. Whether you're married, whether you're single, whether you have kids, like they all come together to help each other out. And it's more of an open door policy. They're not afraid to ask for help and it's more of a togetherness.

Lyanette Talley:

And you know, I'm part Dominican. I wasn't raised there. I really don't know the culture. I've only been there, you know, a few times in my life. But you know I can see what she's saying Like when I have been there, I see how they live and they all do live together. You know my family comes from a small village and they're all right there, so you always have somebody to help out or someone to give you food or you know just more community. And here in the US you do feel isolated. You do feel like you have to do life on your own, which is so why for me that's why I love my tribe is because that's my outlet. We can be real, we can open up, we can give each other advice and when you find those people, you know you're not afraid to ask for help or to be vulnerable. But that's so hard, that's really really hard to do. It's very intentional that you have to be in order to get that tribe. And you know, unfortunately, for whatever reason, you know, this country has made it so that we're more individual with our own you know immediate family and but you know, this story teaches us to ask for help no matter what.

Lyanette Talley:

Number three faith over fear. She could have easily been consumed by fear and despair, but she chose to have faith instead. Her story reminds us that we should not let fear control our lives. We should have faith in God's plan for us and trust that he will see us through even the most difficult times. And that's funny that I'm just now reading that, because today I was doing my devotionals and it's this on the Bible app. It is called faith over fear, and so this one today was basically saying sharing that.

Lyanette Talley:

You know, there's times where God gives you this vision and he's telling you I'm taking you here, and then, because we get scared and we see some, like you know, maybe some fault, something faulty in his plan, we don't really see it, so we poke holes in it and we become fearful, and I can totally relate to that. There's times where I doubt myself and, like even recently in my head, I haven't said it a lot. I'm gonna say a lot right here today to you all where I'm like what am I doing? Give up the podcast, give up all these other things that you're trying to do for it. You know I'm trying to do these things behind the scenes, that hopefully eventually I'll let everyone know what I'm trying to do, but I'm like what am I doing? Let's give that up. Let's just like quit, and it's all fear based and I know that I'm being led somewhere, but the fear in me is trying to sabotage that plan. So I could totally relate to that, because today's devotional really spoke to me and there was a prayer that I wrote down. That I don't have in front of me, but I wrote it down and I'm like, anytime I feel like I'm doubting myself, I need to go back to that prayer and really just say it out loud and feel it in my bones and it's just basically reminding myself that God has a plan, he has a plan, he has a plan and I can't let fear get in the way of that.

Lyanette Talley:

Number four on the list was persistence. Veronica had to push through a crowd of people to get to Jesus. Her persistence paid off when she finally touches garment and was healed. This reminds us of the importance of persistence in achieving our goal. We should never give up on our dreams and keep pushing forward, even when the odds seem against us. I love that word, persistence. So I'm trying to teach my kids I think I talked about that last week on my last show, or two weeks ago. Persistence and perseverance, those are two big words that I'm trying to teach my kids.

Lyanette Talley:

Number five was faith. She believed that if she could just touch Jesus's cloak she would be healed. Her faith was so strong that she didn't even need to see Jesus's face to be healed. We can learn that anything is possible if we have faith. Number six is courage, it said in this article. In the culture of that time, a woman with a hemorrhage was considered unclean and was not allowed to touch anyone. Her courage teaches us to have the courage to take risks in our own lives, even if it means going against the norm. And number seven humility. When Veronica was healed, she didn't boast or draw attention to herself. Instead, she tried to quietly slip away. Her humility is a powerful lesson for us today. It teaches us to be humble in our accomplishments and to remember that our blessings come from God. So in watching that scene, I knew there was lessons to be taken away and I was right when I found this article like this is it? These are great. So it's patience, courage to seek help, faith over fear, persistence, faith, courage, humility those are the lessons we can take away from Veronica. I really needed that.

Lyanette Talley:

I'm like a roller coaster with my emotions. Some days I feel like I got it, I have got this, and some weeks I'm just like life is hard, it's crazy, because my outwardly life looks amazing and it is amazing. It doesn't just look amazing, it is pretty awesome. But my internal struggles are real and the doubts that we have within ourselves are very real. And that exhaustion that he was seeing in her, I think he sees in all of us women. He sees that we're doing the best that we can, even though emotionally we're just ready to tap out like a wrestler. Just tap out like uncle. Was that called uncle? Yeah, like back in the day when I used to wrestle with my brothers, they were like just call uncle and you're like kidding the crowd. Uncle, uncle. Anyways, ["Uncle Uncle"].

Lyanette Talley:

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Lyanette Talley:

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Lyanette Talley:

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Lyanette Talley:

So, going back to Veronica and the lessons that we've learned After watching that, I just feel like, any time I'm going through something, whatever it is, if it's something that is taking up space in my spirit and my mind, I will sit with it and I feel the feelings and I'll feel every emotion that comes with it, which is like Could be a lot, but I kind of isolate myself through all the emotions and I'm learning, though, that I Can't live there. So, you know, when I'm watching something like this, like Veronica, or I read something that helps me to put things into perspective. You know, I try to find the lesson that I should learn from it and I and I pay attention so that I comply to my life and I never want to sit in those deep Feelings forever. I want to feel them and understand where they're coming from and keep it moving. Learn the lessons that keep it moving. You know feeling those emotions from that scene which is in Veronica, and you know reading these lessons, you know it brings me peace and comfort. You know I just feel like with anything that we go through and then we can see the lesson from it. You know, sometimes while we're in it we're not going to see it, but in retrospect we can see it and it does bring me peace and comfort to know that, that I can learn something from it. You know, these are the moments when I go back to Rorago's mission statement. You know tagline, motto I haven't figured out what, what it is. I think it's a mission statement Everyday growth, everyday healing, with everyday warriors.

Lyanette Talley:

And Veronica Was an everyday warrior. She was out there by herself for 12 years Trying to figure out what was wrong with her, being isolated from people, going through turmoil within, being exhausted, fighting a good fight. And I just love to learn from that and I just love to learn from those people and listen, I'm not trying to be a preacher, I'm not trying to preach, I'm just letting you know. For those who don't believe, you can still take From this, you can still learn lessons from this. You know, some people look at the Bible and they don't think the stories are real. Listen, it doesn't matter. This is a story. We can take lessons from it. We can understand what she was feeling as far as the exhaustion and like when is it going to be my time, when is it finally going to be my time to be healed so that I can Live in this world in a in a content, happy way, you know, in a fulfilled way.

Lyanette Talley:

So Veronica, to me, was an everyday warrior. You know, she's just like you and me, and All I can say is that I take the lessons from any everyday warrior that I come in contact with. I don't care where it's from and and I hope you can too, you know. So whatever, virago, that we can grow from and heal from, let's do it. So I would love more stories about everyday warriors, so if you have any, please email me. If you have my number, text me. My email is Virago247podcastatgmailcom. Wherever you listen to podcasts, there's some notes in there explaining what the show's about, and at the very bottom. I have links to everything, to my socials, to emails, because I'm always wanting to learn from other people, I always want to heal from other people's stories, I always want to grow, I want to do all the things. So any stories like this one I would love to hear so that I can share them here on Virago247. I will leave you all with this Bloom beautifully, dangerously, loudly, bloom softly. However, you need Just bloom, bloom, bloom.

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