“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
I was raised in a mildly religious home (rather chaotic due to long-term parental overuse of alcohol) but knew little of the truths of the Christian faith, and nothing of the Bible. Somehow, I believed the Bible had magical properties causing answers to prayer if one laid on hands while praying. Having no Bible in our home, it was an easy thing to believe without testing to see if it might be true.
Coming of age in the late 1960s/early 1970s I willfully chose to deny the existence of God. I got married at age 23 and moved from Minneapolis, MN to Whitefish, MT where I lived as a ski-bum atheist for several years until our first child was born. The second baby came within a year and a half, and, to put it mildly, atheism was no longer working for me.
Marital problems coupled with being a young mom, among other life-challenges (thank You, Lord!!) brought me face to face with a compassionate & godly Christian pastor whom the Lord used over a period of several months in 1983 to lead me to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I was instantly hungry for the Word of God, drinking it in as from a firehose.
In 1984 I began to study in Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) with my then 2- and 3-1/2-year-old daughters. Oh, how we grew! And how the Lord began to bring life to my marriage! He gave me the privilege of various leadership positions in BSF over the next 35 years. My husband Charlie also received the instruction & leadership training provided there for several years before his unexpected death in 2013.
The Lord has seen me through so very much!! Surely, He IS The Good Shepherd, having proved again & again that, with Him as my Shepherd, “I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). In 2018 He brought into my life the widowed husband of a friend. Though neither of us were looking to marry again, our Lord had other plans. Curt & I were married in April of that year and find ourselves thoroughly enjoying our Lord’s “other plans” for us.
Having heard Rosemary explain her earliest vision for Rafiki in the 1980s, I’ve been privileged to follow our Lord’s working in & through this ministry all these years. In 2019 I began leading Rafiki Bible Studies, first in our home, and in the last 3 years in the home of a disabled friend. To my surprise, my pastor recently requested that I begin leading a Rafiki Bible Study (RBS) for the women in our church.
So, apparently the Lord isn’t finished with me!~Becky
P.S. from Rosemary: Think of all the people Becky’s RBS studies are affecting—in homes and in her church. You could do the same by checking with Rafiki about how to start an RBS group. It will be amazing how much you and they learn and how much fun you will have as you meet together! But besides that, Becky has a daughter, and her story is beyond amazing! I will blog it to you next week. Keep watch!
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