280: Becky Antkowiak and Faithfulness Through Grief

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.

Listen to Becky’s story now!

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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