Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Aaron Bekkela
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000130C
|
00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues
00:03 related to addictive behaviour. 00:05 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:06 may be too candid for younger children. 00:13 Welcome back, you know, we're talking about Aaron 00:16 and his life in... 00:17 You know, his family owned a number of strip clubs, 00:20 that was their business and they did it very well. 00:24 And all of the sudden, God steps in and I love that. 00:27 So, Aaron, God steps in. 00:29 The club gets sold, 00:32 it is now a church and incredible. 00:35 You're now a Christian counselor, 00:37 went to school, got your degrees, 00:38 all of that kind of stuff. 00:40 And so I would like you to say a little bit about, 00:44 you know, the kind of the bad guy in the story, 00:47 looks like dad. 00:48 All right, and say a little bit about that. 00:50 You know, Michel, 00:52 actually it kind of co-interphrase amongst us 00:55 with my dad, where he was just kind of a bigger than life 00:59 kind of guy or whatever and Michel just said, 01:01 "Oh, he's just the dark side of John Wayne." 01:03 You know, and it was something that really... 01:06 When all of a sudden done, you know, 01:08 as he was dealing with cancer 01:10 and like literally on his deathbed and stuff like that 01:13 or as you go through it, yeah, there is. 01:16 There almost has to be a villain or something, 01:18 you know, and the first... 01:19 And at that point even in his life at that point, 01:23 he's left your mom, he marries somebody half his age... 01:26 Right, he married. 01:27 It's just like a story somewhere 01:29 that he married the stripper half his age 01:31 or whatever and he did. 01:33 And there is so many things with that, you know, 01:36 a brand new will that nobody had ever talked about 01:38 or seen or whatever, literally three weeks before he passes, 01:42 this comes into play, 01:43 which just created a change of events and court 01:46 and this and that, I mean, it was just... 01:49 It was easy to make him a villain for sure. 01:52 Because of the past, 01:53 because of what we were dealing with at that time 01:55 and everything but, yeah. 01:58 If... How did you... 02:00 What do you think about that now? 02:03 You see the villain. No, he's not. 02:04 He's not, he isn't any different 02:06 from the rest of us. 02:07 I think getting... 02:09 Going through everything that I went through 02:11 in getting my degree especially. 02:14 Getting to know some people that I could really trust 02:17 outside of my family, 02:18 that had some skills like a clinician or whatever. 02:23 It was very helpful 02:25 because I was able to look and go who is he? 02:28 Who was he? 02:29 How did, where did this start? How did this go? 02:32 And he had passed, so I couldn't ask him 02:35 but I could reflect back to conversations 02:37 that we had, you know, and why... 02:41 I guess one of the biggest questions for me 02:43 as I look back on it was, why is he so... 02:47 I mean, it's animated, it's like a, almost a hatred 02:50 where anything Christian is concerned, you know. 02:53 And through that thought process I thought, 02:56 I mean, he was a Catholic Altar boy, 02:58 he was, you know, like where do these things come from? 03:01 Where you start out on this path 03:02 and end up or handed up, you know. 03:04 And nobody knows that they've, less back ground, 03:07 did he have any of that kind of stuff you don't know? 03:09 You really don't, you really don't. 03:11 I mean, my dad was a... 03:12 He was unlike the smallest guy in my family sort of thing 03:15 and so it's really hard to envision 03:20 anybody taking advantage of my father 03:22 but he was a 10 year old too at one point, you know. 03:24 Did you ever forgive him, were you able to forgive him? 03:26 Yeah, absolutely, for sure. For sure. 03:28 I just want to say, you know what? 03:30 I welcome to the family. 03:33 Thank you for coming and sharing your story 03:35 of how incredible grace is, how incredible God is 03:39 and there is nothing outside of the reach of God. 03:43 Sometimes we'll say, you know what? 03:44 That family is too gone, that guy is too gone, 03:48 she is too lost, they are evil, that's not true. 03:53 That is not true and what God says is, 03:55 "If you trust me, 03:56 if you turn your life around that I promise you, 03:59 I will change everything." 04:01 So if you're out there watching this, 04:03 remember, turn it around, surrender it. 04:05 And not just somewhere, 04:06 it's only with a very poor of who you are, 04:09 surrender everything. 04:10 Until next time, always remember 04:12 that God is crazy about you, me too. 04:16 God bless. |
Revised 2016-10-10