From Torment to Identity and Purpose (Part 1)
My guest in part 1 of this episode is Rebekah Wen. Rebekah will share her story and testimony of growing up disconnected from her identity and purpose, how she found it and how you can find yours too. This is one you’re not going to want to miss.
Part 2 of this story can be heard in the next episode.
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Transcription - From Torment to Identity and Purpose (part 1)
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Today I have a guest who will share her story and testimony of how she found her identity
in purpose and how you can find yours too.
This is one you're not going to want to miss, so don't go anywhere.
Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awaken and inspire fathers everywhere,
to take great pride in their role, and a challenge society to understand how important fathers
are to the stability and culture of their family's environment.
Now here's your host, Jonathan Guerrero.
Greetings everyone, thank you so much for joining me.
Rebecca Wynn is here with me to share her story of how she grew up disconnected from
her identity and life purpose and how she found it.
This is going to be a powerful story, so buckle up.
Rebecca, thank you so much for joining me on the Fatherhood Challenge.
Thank you so much for having me.
Rebecca, let's start from the very beginning.
What is your story of how you found your identity in purpose?
Well my story actually begins back before World War II in the early 1930s, even before
then, on my father's side of the family where Ashkenazi Jews, and so sometime in the early
like first 1000 years BC, my family was taken from Israel and brought up to Germany into
the modern day Rhine River, that area, at Suiustis lives, and over hundreds of years they
had built a community, and my family, they were the rabbi and the religious leaders in
the community.
In that time my family were, they were serving the Lord.
And there are records like obituaries that were written for my great-great-grandmother,
she passed away in 1933, and there are obituaries that were written by the German population
of the city where they lived.
And those obituaries paint her in a very loving way.
She was a powerful woman of prayer who was known for being loving and kind and nurturing
to absolutely anybody who came to her, which is, she had no problem reaching out to them
regardless of their faith.
And so this was an obituary that was written by the German population, not by the Jewish
population in that city.
The next account of my family is from the Crystal Night, and it's an account of my relatives
being dragged out into the streets and beaten as their house was burnt down.
The synagogue was burnt down, the cemetery was destroyed.
That was obviously Crystal Night, so a few years after that, by 1942, all of the people
in my family, my father's bloodline, who were 50 years old and younger, they had fled
Europe.
They left everyone who was 50 years old and older in Germany.
And the result was that all of the elderly people in my family were killed in camps.
And since that time in my father's bloodline, absolutely nobody has been a believer in
Christ or practicing Judaism.
He has been financially successful or physically healthy.
And I believe very strongly that their choice to abandon the elderly at that time brought
some kind of a curse on our family that we no longer protect, took some kind of protection
away from us
