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.Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrhttps://zencastr.com/?via=thefatherhoodchallengeTranscription - From Torment to Identity and Purpose (part 1)---Today I have a guest who will share her story and testimony of how she found her identityin 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 fathersare 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 fromher 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 beforethen, on my father's side of the family where Ashkenazi Jews, and so sometime in the earlylike first 1000 years BC, my family was taken from Israel and brought up to Germany intothe modern day Rhine River, that area, at Suiustis lives, and over hundreds of years theyhad built a community, and my family, they were the rabbi and the religious leaders inthe 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 populationof 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 nurturingto absolutely anybody who came to her, which is, she had no problem reaching out to themregardless of their faith.And so this was an obituary that was written by the German population, not by the Jewishpopulation in that city.The next account of my family is from the Crystal Night, and it's an account of my relativesbeing 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 peoplein my family, my father's bloodline, who were 50 years old and younger, they had fledEurope.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 inChrist 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 broughtsome kind of a curse on our family that we no longer protect, took some kind of protectionaway from us on a generational curse level.And that filtered down to me many years later.So my parents divorced as an infant.I was five months old when they had finalized their divorce.The reason that they divorced is because there were a lot of reasons, but domestic violencewas the main one.So I spent my first year of life growing up in a shelter for battered women with my motherand siblings.So from a very early age, my mother was very religious.She was a believer.She clung to the Lord through all of these situations, but my father was a hardened atheist.And so I grew up seeing these polar opposite identities, these polar opposite worldviews.And my mother was a Republican.My father was a liberal.I was just like, they had nothing in common.So I grew up, I learned very quickly that I had to be a different person when I was withmy mother versus when I was with my father.So with my father, I grew up hearing Bible stories, listening to adventures in honesty,praying before we go to bed, before we eat all these kinds of things with my father.If he saw us praying, he would beat us.If we had anything Christian, the Bible or anything that we brought to his house, hewould destroy it.And at his house, we were surrounded with new age things, with witchcraft, with a lot of thingsthat were even, a lot of D and D and things that were basically soft core pornography.When you get into those like artwork and everything, that's out of the world, a lot of animeand things like this.And then as we got older, that progressed into things like more explicit things like AustinPowers and those movies he thought they were...
