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Becky Green
From Hopeless Horror
to Redeeming Love
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warned, the first part of her story is not pretty. No child should ever be subjected
to the treatment endured by Becky Green. Yet she recalls some good from her early
days in Imlay City (Michigan). She was ‘daddy’s girl’ until,
at age seven, she was devastated by the unspeakable horror of her father committing
suicide. Her mother then suffered a nervous breakdown but refused help. As a
result, a great deal of neglect and abuse both verbal and physical followed.
Becky was kept locked up in a basement room, “just because.” Her
squalid home was infested with roaches and she was not allowed to bathe. By age
eight, an uncle moved in and she was ordered to call him dad. Before long he
began molesting her.
While school was difficult, she did graduate. Soon after however, Becky fell
into drug and alcohol abuse. Not surprisingly, she made several attempts at taking
her own life.
Through it all, somehow, she did her best to look after her mother who was ailing
with diabetes and heart trouble. Becky began attending church and made a profession
of faith in Christ. Her blossoming activity as a youth leader, Sunday School
teacher, board member and junior church director was instrumental in her mother
also accepting Christ before she passed away.
Unfortunately, Becky’s church involvement placed her on the inside track
enough to observe some improprieties that disillusioned her. “And I played
the act,” she admitted, “but was [also] one that didn’t walk
the talk.” Today she reflects that her activity was from a sense of obligation
rather than a form the heart. Embittered, she left the church and plunged back
into the world.
After the demise of her 6½ - year marriage, Becky’s search for love
strayed into the wanton ‘swing lifestyle.’ I would go to any measure
for a little fun or a lot,” she recalled. Her next relationship subjected
her to eighteen months of brutal battery. Three more failed attempts to end her
own life landed her in the hospital.
Happily, from the addiction recovery facility where she ‘went straight,’ she
was referred to the Good Samaritan Rescue Mission of Bay City, a division of
City Rescue Mission. “I remember thinking, oh my god, a homeless shelter.
But when I met Miss Ellie [a shelter assistant], I felt safe. I was crying and
she was grabbed me saying, “It’s okay. Miss Ellie loves you and so
does God.” “On June 14, 2005, I gave my life back to the Lord,” declared
Becky. Through the persistent love shown her, she would enter and complete the
residential Discipleship Program in Saginaw. “It has turned my life totally
around. Now I know why the Lord spared my life all those times—so I could
live for Him.” |
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City Rescue
Mission of Saginaw
P.O. Box 548
Saginaw, MI 48606
(989) 752-6051
info@rescuesaginaw.org
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