The Paternal Instinct: Foundational or Fabricated?
Today we are going to dive deep into the origins of fatherhood and what it was designed to be. We’re also going to explore how fatherhood is connected to identity and purpose.
My guest is my pastor Meshach Faaeteete. Pastor Faaeteete is husband and a father of two boys. He is passionate about helping men connect with their true God given identity and purpose.
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Phone: (650) 636-6811
Email: faaeteete@andrews.edu
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Transcript:
00:16.58
Jonathan Guerrero
Today we're going to dive deep into the origins of fatherhood and what it's designed to be. We're also going to explore how fatherhood is connected to identity and purpose in just a moment. So don't go anywhere.
00:29.12
Jonathan Guerrero
Greetings, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me in this episode called The Paternal Instinct, Foundational or fabric Fabricated. My guest is Pastor Mishak Faitete. Pastor Faitete is not only a pastor, but a husband and a father of two boys.
00:43.49
Jonathan Guerrero
He is passionate about helping men connect with their true God-given identity and purpose. Pastor Faitete, welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge.
00:53.60
Meshach
Thank you. Glad to be here.
00:56.60
Jonathan Guerrero
Okay, my favorite question of all, what is your favorite dad joke?
01:01.48
Meshach
Favorite dad joke. Okay. um So it goes, my wife complains that I don't buy her flowers. To be honest, I didn't know she sold them.
01:14.53
Meshach
That's all I got.
01:18.20
Jonathan Guerrero
ah That's perfect. All right. Well, this episode is going to go a little deep. So, so we'll not waste any more time. So let's dive in. Let's start with your story about the moment you became a father for the first time.
01:32.21
Jonathan Guerrero
Were you scared, excited, both? What thoughts ran through your mind?
01:38.48
Meshach
Yes, so I both, I was both scared and excited. i was excited because having a child was something my wife and I ah really wanted. and We had been praying for some time for it.
01:51.99
Meshach
But I was also scared for a number of reasons. For one, having a child, another life, another life, in my, as part of my responsibility to nurture and raise, that task seemed pretty pretty big task. And so that that scared me at first. Another thing I was scared about was before my firstborn, Niles, we had experienced a pretty heartbreaking miscarriage.
02:24.03
Meshach
And that one was, it was, I think, the I forgot which one of the first checkups that we had and it was going to be the one with the ultrasound where we could see the baby and when we looked, there was no baby and we had already told our families and so that that one was that experience was pretty heartbreaking. And so I was fearful of like, what if this happens again or something like that? So I'm fearful for for us and and especiall
