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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving morning. Hey, it's Delilah, and I want to know
Speaker 1: what you are most thankful for.
Speaker 2: Hi, Opel, Hello, how are you today?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: It's fine?
Speaker 1: Tell us your story.
Speaker 2: Well, when my husband and I returned to San Antonio,
Speaker 2: he's retired Army and I worked for the Air Force.
Speaker 2: We decided that we would start a Thanksgiving tradition of
Speaker 2: getting two Army guys into air Force because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people who don't get to go home. So
Speaker 2: we signed up. We got our two from the Army
Speaker 2: and our two from the Air Force. Our children know that,
Speaker 2: you know, Thanksgiving Day you come home, you know, if
Speaker 2: you can possibly make it. So Paul, it was in
Speaker 2: the Army at the time, he calls and says, oh,
Speaker 2: my friend can't make it to the East coast. Can
Speaker 2: he come home with me? And I'm gonna out find
Speaker 2: no problem because everybody knows, you know, we invite everybody,
Speaker 2: and you know somebody's there and you need to bring
Speaker 2: me you bring them along. Long story short, Paul's brother,
Speaker 2: James's brother came in with his mom and his family.
Speaker 2: Then his sister showed up with her five kids, and
Speaker 2: then her daughter showed up with her two children, and
Speaker 2: then people from work showed up for some unknown reason
Speaker 2: that didn't make their connections or something I don't remember
Speaker 2: right now. So in this little two bedroom house we
Speaker 2: had twenty five people. I think it was twenty five
Speaker 2: or thirty two anyway, And at the end of all this,
Speaker 2: the TV station people showed up to interviews because we
Speaker 2: had been doing it for over seventeen years and they
Speaker 2: were wondering how come we did it and buy and
Speaker 2: you know, I'm going, well, you know, we're a military family.
Speaker 1: This is what we do.
Speaker 2: This is what we do here.
Speaker 1: Good for you, all right, God bless you, opl Thank
Speaker 1: you for calling, Thank you for sharing your story.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you being there for us, and I
Speaker 2: really appreciate you going and supporting troops that way, because
Speaker 2: I can guarantee you you never know how much that
Speaker 2: one drop of kindness will mean.
Speaker 1: God bless you, honey, Thank you, Ephrian. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Delilah sholl Tell me what you are most thankful for
Speaker 1: grateful for this holiday season.
Speaker 4: I'm grateful for lens, connection, family, and being present to
Speaker 4: enjoy every single person in my life.
Speaker 1: Have you always been emotionally available and present or is
Speaker 1: this a new thing? Hard to do sometimes, isn't it?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: What was your go to in the past to disassociate,
Speaker 1: to fill your head in your time with nonsense so
Speaker 1: you didn't have to deal with, you know, real life
Speaker 1: or the pain of love.
Speaker 4: It was through a breakup that I that hit me
Speaker 4: in the morning, when I woke up and trauma just
Speaker 4: beat me up for like five minutes to my bed.
Speaker 4: I got out and I felt a huge aura around
Speaker 4: me of just just here, present, gloved.
Speaker 1: Okay, this might be the most miraculous story I've ever
Speaker 1: had on my show, because that's not the way it
Speaker 1: happens for most of us. Ephraying.
Speaker 4: No, I think sometimes I'm just walking through life and
Speaker 4: I feel emotionless, Like I talk to people and it's
Speaker 4: hard for me to smile sometimes, and it's like when
Speaker 4: I get to that point, it's maybe because yeah, I've
Speaker 4: been on my phone too much and I drained my battery,
Speaker 4: or maybe the food I'm eating, maybe the exercise that
Speaker 4: I'm not pursuing you though, that gets me to those states.
Speaker 4: So it's hard work to just focus on the right
Speaker 4: things to do and keep myself happy and present. You
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Well, I am proud of you. I am going to
Speaker 1: play a song for you, and I'm going to encourage
Speaker 1: everybody listening to learn from Ephraim and make sure their
Speaker 1: their mind and their spirits and their body are in
Speaker 1: the same room at the same time.
Speaker 4: Oh, I appreciate you so much. Though I've been here,
Speaker 4: I've been listening to your voice for years now, and
Speaker 4: and you're just an amazing person. I love you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Darling. Happy holidays, God bless you likewise. Hi,
Speaker 1: good evening, Welcome to the Delight Sila Show. Who is
Speaker 1: on the phone line sharing a little Thanksgiving gratitude with me?
Speaker 3: Hi, Delilah, It's Eileen from New York.
Speaker 1: Hi, Eileen from New York. Welcome aboard, Happy holidays.
Speaker 3: Thank you, same to you. I just want to share
Speaker 3: that I am so grateful and so thankful for a
Speaker 3: woman that I don't even know from the UK who
Speaker 3: donated her stem cells so that it could cure my leukemia.
Speaker 3: I had a stem cell transplant almost a year ago
Speaker 3: and my health is restored. There's no trace of the
Speaker 3: leukemia anymore. I no longer need blood transfusions, which I
Speaker 3: was dependent on for a long time.
Speaker 1: Wow. And so someone you've never met, someone you don't know,
Speaker 1: donated what that cured.
Speaker 3: You, her stem cells? Her stem cells. And I hope
Speaker 3: after two years go by that I will be able
Speaker 3: to meet her. There's a privacy issue. You can't write
Speaker 3: for a year and you can't reveal who you are,
Speaker 3: and then after two years, if both parties agree, we
Speaker 3: can meet, and I'm hoping that will happen.
Speaker 1: That is a silly rule. I'm sure there's some reason
Speaker 1: that they came up with that, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: put it out there into the universe. Who knows who
Speaker 1: this might inspire to go donate right right?
Speaker 3: It's so important, so so important. I mean, I'm seventy though.
Speaker 3: I was kind of feeling sorry for myself last year
Speaker 3: because I spent Christmas Eve in the hospital Christmas Day,
Speaker 3: my birthday, which was the twenty ninth December New Year's Eve,
Speaker 3: New Year's Day. But you know what the nurses said
Speaker 3: to me, You're getting the best gift of all.
Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, and here's to another thirty or forty years.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh, I'll be happy with twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: All right, you have a great holiday.
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling, Thank you for taking my call. Hi,
Speaker 2: this is Delilah.
Speaker 3: How can I help you.
Speaker 5: I just kind of wanted to call and say that
Speaker 5: I had my family here tonight, my sister and her husband, kids,
Speaker 5: and my best friend and her family, and you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes you just stop me think what a wonderful life
Speaker 5: and how God's blessed you. It's just been I was
Speaker 5: sitting here at night and I thought we had a
Speaker 5: fabulous time, and it's I don't know, it was just wonderful.
Speaker 2: One of those nights to remember.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's one of those nights you think, you know,
Speaker 5: you forget the little things to stop and say, you know,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you God forgiving me everything you have
Speaker 5: given me tonight, because it was just everybody had a
Speaker 5: wonderful time and we sang and we played guitar and
Speaker 5: it was just like everybody just folded together. And when
Speaker 5: everybody left, I was sitting here and I looked at
Speaker 5: my husband and I said, you know, I've been married
Speaker 5: fifteen years. I have an eleven year old son and
Speaker 5: a nine year old daughter, And I thought, you know,
Speaker 5: how wonderful my life has been, and how he has
Speaker 5: blessed me every step of the way. And I just thought,
Speaker 5: you know, I was listening to your show a lot,
Speaker 5: and I hear a lot of negative and I hear
Speaker 5: a lot of positive, and I thought, you know, if
Speaker 5: I could just call one night and say how absolutely
Speaker 5: wonderful he is even through the tough times, if you
Speaker 5: can just stop and remember to thank him for the everything,
Speaker 5: the green grass and the air and everything. You know,
Speaker 5: sometimes it's really hard to stop and just thinking for
Speaker 5: the little things he gives you. I think at night
Speaker 5: when you pray, you think it's so hard sometimes and
Speaker 5: you pray for this, and you pray for that, but
Speaker 5: you don't stop and see, you know what, but just
Speaker 5: thank you for the little things, like when you hold
Speaker 5: your little baby at night. You know you thank you
Speaker 5: for just the little things you have in your life.
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