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280: Becky Antkowiak and Faithfulness Through Grief

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Becky Antkowiak is a writer, leader of the 540 Community for writers, and my new best friend. Today, Becky shares with us her story of following a calling that seemed to not work out only to discover how God uses everything. Becky also opens up about a season of grief and lets us in on how she found the Lord when he seemed absent. Becky leads a group of writers called the 540 Community and explains why everyone has a story to tell. Becky’s story reminds us that no matter where we find ourselves, God is working.

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Stories Becky shared:

  • Homeschooling and working at Redemption Press
  • Growing up in Virginia
  • Going to Bible college
  • The pastor that she looked up to
  • Convincing her grandfather that she loved Jesus at 4 years old
  • The spiritual biographies that influenced her
  • Learning that teaching was not for her
  • Feeling angry that the Lord didn’t take her overseas
  • Why “living for God” does not mean “ministry” work
  • How her husband helped her through the anger
  • Receiving a lupus diagnosis
  • Sensing God’s distance while grieving her sister
  • Processing her grief and where God is in the middle of grief
  • Why she started the 540 Community

    • Great quotes from Becky:

    You don’t need a crazy education to homeschool but you do need to have commitment.

    As long as you are putting your best effort in, you’re working hard, and you’re happy,  find a way to do that for Jesus.

    I lived in a bubble until the last year.

    Resources we mentioned:

    • Becky’s website
  • 540 Facebook group
  • Redemption Press
  • Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot
  • George Müller: Delighted in God

    • Related episodes:

    • September McCarthy and Suffering as Sanctification
  • Douglas Groothuis and Walking Through Twilight
  • James Prescott and Processing Grief Well

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