Unfolding Short Stories: "I drink from a well I didn't dig." Rebekah Albaugh
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Rebekah Albaugh recounts the rich legacy of faith that precedes her, beginning with her grandparents, who first met at a Moody Bible Institute rally in the 1940s. This legacy continued with her parents, who remained steadfast in their devotion to Jesus until their final moments. Tragedy struck when Rebekah lost her father at the young age of 18, yet her mother never stopped praising God. Even as her mother battled cancer and endured suffering and memory loss, she recalled the hymns from her youth, and sang until her last days. This is why Rebekah says "I drink from a well I didn't dig."
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:11.0 | I come from a legacy of believers. I often say I drink from a well. I didn't dig. And I am so blessed to be able to say that I was introduced to Jesus |
| 0:25.2 | at a young age. My mother's parents met at a Moody Bible Institute rally in the 1940s. |
| 0:34.9 | And they were instantly attracted to each other in the sense that, as my friend, |
| 0:40.7 | Tessa would say, they're deep called to each other's deep. And my grandfather was a super |
| 0:47.2 | musical person. He was a pastor of music in Chicago, in a church in Chicago. And my mom had the privilege and the gift to grow up in a |
| 0:59.1 | household full of worship. And that was her upbringing. My grandfather played many instruments, |
| 1:08.4 | and they sang. They sang with joy. They sang in habit. They sang |
| 1:16.2 | probably when they didn't want to sing, but that was their reality. And so when I was a little |
| 1:23.4 | girl, my mom introduced me and my sisters and my brother to all those beautiful traditional |
| 1:29.6 | hymns that they grew up singing. And that was just part of our lives growing up. We grew up in a |
| 1:37.3 | Bible-based church with traditional hymns, which is very different than my love language. Now I'm a very |
| 1:44.1 | contemporary worshipper, |
| 1:46.1 | kind of the charismatic girl dancing crazy like David in the front. But those traditional |
| 1:52.5 | hymns, they just have so much richness and roots in them. I lost my father, who was a lover of Christ and actually very tone-deaf. |
| 2:05.4 | This was not his gift, nor did he participate in the singing, but he enjoyed it. I lost |
| 2:10.3 | my father when I was 18 years old of a cardiac arrest and went through a dark time, as we all do, as we're all promised, to go through hardship and |
| 2:21.4 | trial and tribulation. And my mom didn't stop singing in those days. I mean, she lost the love |
| 2:30.1 | of her life, the man she was married to for 30 years, but she's still saying. And that was a |
| 2:34.9 | testament in my life. And then fast forward 20 years. And my mom was diagnosed with cancer, |
| 2:42.3 | an ongoing battle with cancer between the years of 2012 and 2020, off and on for eight years battling various forms of cancer. |
| 2:54.1 | And God continued to say yes to extending her life. |
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