ask and you shall receive. a hot water bottle and a dolly...

I came across a video this morning
of Dr. Helen Roseveare (aka Mama Luka)
upon following a link from one of my
favorite blogs, "Rebecca Writes".

If you're not familiar with Dr. Helen Roseveare,
you need to be.

She was a missionary in The Congo
during the 50's through the early 70's.
Her faith in God, her love for Jesus,
her love for The Congo people,
her joy in counting all things loss
for the sake of gaining Christ...
are amazing testimonies to the grace of God
and the redeeming love of Jesus.

Dr. Roseveare has lived Philippians 3:10-11
to a degree that many of us will never experience.

In October 1964, while in Congo,
she was beaten, raped and taken hostage
by a group of Simba rebels.
Feeling forsaken by God, she tells of praying
and asking God why the rebels were doing this to her...
and she felt God answering her that
the rebels were not attacking her, but Him,
and that she was experiencing the fellowship of Christ's suffering.
As God answered her, she describes a feeling of being washed over
by a flood of peace and comfort that she had never known.
She was released by the rebels in early 1965.

As for this video...
I was struck by the magnitude of faith
demonstrated in the prayer of the child
in the story Dr. Roseveare shares.

Oh, to have the humble faith of a child...
to believe that nothing is too hard for God,
not even a hot water bottle and a dolly.

After you watch this video,
I would suggest you head on over to
Desiring God's website where you can listen
to Dr. Roseveare's message she gave
during the 2007 National Conference.

It would be a fabulous way to spend an hour of your life.


Mama Luka Comes Home from CTA on Vimeo.