Praying for Production
Written by Frosty Rose
As we all know, Mary Kay is an overtly Christian company. The illustrious founder, Mary Kay infinite last names Ash herself built her dream company on the solid foundation of her faith, despite countless marriages and divorces resulting in aforementioned infinite last names. In fact, faith forms the number one priority that all good consultants should live by: #1 Faith, #2 Family, #3 Career.
They certainly talk a good game. When new consultants are presented with this information in their initial indoctrination, ahem, training, you can see them go starry-eyed at the thought of days off to take little kids to the zoo, leisurely Sundays without the dread of an 8 am staff meeting on Monday, and, perhaps, a weekend here or there to get away with their husbands.
Of course, the reality is far from this idyllic picture painted by eager directors selling initial inventory. Consultants must constantly be “on” with their business. Zoo day with the kids? That’s fine, I suppose, but make sure your makeup is on point and you have oodles of goodie bags to hand out to the other moms.
Sundays are a day off, but only kind of. You still need to make a weekly plan sheet, meal prep for the nights you’ll be out at “parties”, and set some time aside to call your hostesses for the week and coach them. Don’t have any parties booked? Well, double time on that phone! This business works if you do!
And just forget about a weekend away with your husband. Saturdays are prime party time—you do want to grow your business, don’t you? He’ll be so proud of your progress, and you’ll be able to dedicate more time to him after you finish this goal (and the next one, and the next one, and the next one after that, until you quit or die!)
Nonetheless, Mary Kay is a strong Christian company. Directors are consistently caught praying at conferences, sneaking away from the crowd to go to the Lord with a consultant in need, or, in this case, blasting their prayers all over social media.
Recently, the Director Tips Facebook group was graced with this beauty.
Praying for production. For a “strong, miraculous finish.” Praying, in effect, for money. For ill-gotten gains. Wrapping a deceitful, exploitative pyramid scheme in pretty words, directed towards God, but clearly only meant for humans to read.
I wonder what God has to say about that?
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Christ himself called out the religious of his day for missing the point of scripture and exploiting their religion or position for personal gain…especially the leaders. His criticism was so on-point and irrefutable, these leaders tracked him down and killed him in the most humiliating way possible.
John The Baptist had some choice words as well. He was ultimately killed for daring to call out Harod’s sinful relationship with his wife Herodious. She made sure of it.
Both were punished for telling the truth.
It is fair to say God does not take kindly to those who do evil in his name. The Bible is filled with examples.
Say you have a family where the mom is a sales director.
She’s praying she makes production this month because if she doesn’t, she’ll lose her title and her car.
Husband is praying that is wife finally sees the light and gives up this pipe dream. Their finances and her sanity are in danger.
Daughter is praying Mom quits Mary Kay. She misses spending time with her while worrying that Mom will offer a pampering session or will to recruit any of her friends???
NSD is praying the director makes production this month. She isn’t making it herself and needs every bit she can.
Whose prayer will God listen to?
Or the daughter of the NSD who is hoping the director fails so she can get assigned her consultants by her mom?
Or the sister director who hopes she fails she she can be the queen of the “Anyone Can Do It” Unit at Seminar?
Or Ryan Rogers who prays that he can survive the fallout when he decided to take the company to affiliate?
“You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” ~ James 4:3 ESV
Praying they can convince their downline to order more inventory they don’t need so they can keep their status. Wow. Suuuuper Christlike. 😒
I was briefly in a Bible study with former NSD Mary Pat Raynor and we prayed for Red Jackets and production to come into our units. It was very strange. I asked my Priest about it, and he said he would recommend a different Bible study. We were also shamed for not driving Pink Cadillacs (I was a new director and had the red Grand Am at the time) She also called me a “baby Christian.” I felt like a total failure and quit making the 100 mile round trip shortly after. She ignored me when she saw me at events.