Speaker 1: Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
Speaker 1: put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
Speaker 1: share with you on our daily podcast. Hey it's Delilah.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here. It's no secret Santa Claus
Speaker 1: is coming to town. You can meet me right here
Speaker 1: each weekday for holiday audio, hugs and gifts in the
Speaker 1: form of your memories, your stories, things you anticipate, and.
Speaker 2: Your traditions all season long.
Speaker 3: Hi, good evening, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Is this Marie?
Speaker 4: Yes, it is Hello.
Speaker 3: Happy holidays, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say my angel story.
Speaker 3: Tell me your story.
Speaker 4: It was Christmas last year and our family has always
Speaker 4: struggled with money, but last year it was really hard.
Speaker 4: And on Christmas Eve, my friend Julie came over to
Speaker 4: give me my Christmas present, and she and I had
Speaker 4: planned this out just right. So a few weeks before,
Speaker 4: she and I went shopping and bought all the needs
Speaker 4: that my family had, including food and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And while Julie was at my housegiving, she and I
Speaker 4: had planned somebody to leave his food and stuff at
Speaker 4: our door outside, so when she opened the door to lease,
Speaker 4: she and I both acted as surprise as we could,
Speaker 4: and my mom looked down the stairs and started crying,
Speaker 4: and I smiled, and we bought all the stuff in
Speaker 4: as Julie left, my mom and I were still all
Speaker 4: happy as can be, and we were watching a Christmas
Speaker 4: movie and the doorbell rang about nine forty five pm
Speaker 4: and we went down Wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, First off, how old are you? I am seventeen,
Speaker 3: so you were sixteen? This was last year?
Speaker 4: Yes. We went downstairs and we opened the door and
Speaker 4: there was two black garbage bags full of gifts for
Speaker 4: all of our family, and I couldn't believe. I started crying.
Speaker 4: My mom started crying, and I went to bed like
Speaker 4: happy as ever, and I thought it was going to
Speaker 4: be a great Christmas. But at six o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 4: I heard the doorbell and I went outside and my
Speaker 4: mom was standing at the door, and she looked like
Speaker 4: she'd seen a ghost. I was all worried, so I
Speaker 4: ran down the stairs and she opened the door more
Speaker 4: all the way and my mouth fell open, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't believe that there was a fireplace out on our steps,
Speaker 4: and it was made out of cardboard, and all around
Speaker 4: there there was presence everywhere. We just couldn't believe how
Speaker 4: many we saw, and we left count there was so many,
Speaker 4: and so that Christmas it was really hard for my mom.
Speaker 4: She didn't think she was able to do much, but
Speaker 4: there was so much other going on that.
Speaker 3: First you and your friend, yeah, and then somebody else
Speaker 3: that you don't know, and then somebody's some Misanta.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It was amazing, like incredible.
Speaker 2: Wow, three visits by angels.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it was amazing.
Speaker 2: Let me find a great song for you.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, Thank you, Helloa.
Speaker 5: My name is Lenni Lenny Welcome.
Speaker 2: What can I do for you tonight as we celebrate
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 5: Wonderful season. I have a short story I'd like to
Speaker 5: share with you. Many years ago, I graduated from nursing
Speaker 5: school and I moved back in with my family for
Speaker 5: a little while, and we went to a Christmas Eve
Speaker 5: service was below zero, icy, and when we came out
Speaker 5: of the service, it started to snow and somehow we
Speaker 5: slipped into a ditch. Could not move the car, so
Speaker 5: we got out in our little stockings and little pumps
Speaker 5: that were about an inch I and walked this glorious
Speaker 5: neighborhood with about two or three hundred people, the only
Speaker 5: light on that we found. The family welcomed us into
Speaker 5: their home, gave us hot chocolate treats, let us use
Speaker 5: the phone, and it turned out to be a Jewish
Speaker 5: family celebrating Hanukkah that.
Speaker 3: Evening, and the miracle of lights was shared. Absolutely, what
Speaker 3: a great story, what a great memory.
Speaker 5: Is something I'll never forget, and it lives in.
Speaker 3: Your heart as real as if it were yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yes, because the world has changed so today, and I
Speaker 5: wonder if that whatever happened again.
Speaker 3: Of course it would somewhere. The world has changed, people
Speaker 3: have reached out in a myriad of ways and crossed
Speaker 3: boundaries that they never would have before. This is true,
Speaker 3: and the love that has been shown, the stories I hear,
Speaker 3: I mean I could write movies. I could write books
Speaker 3: every night from listeners like you who call in and
Speaker 3: share amazing stories of people simply reaching out and doing
Speaker 3: small things, but with so much love.
Speaker 5: And a lot less fear.
Speaker 3: So though the world has changed and evil has grown,
Speaker 3: love has grown exponentially as well. Amen, you have a
Speaker 3: blessed season. Thank you for calling, Hunt.
Speaker 5: Thank you God bless you, and have a great holiday.
Speaker 3: You two, Hunt.
Speaker 2: Wanda Merry Christmas.
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, Delilah.
Speaker 2: Tell me your Christmas story.
Speaker 6: Well, I grew up in a house that can on
Speaker 6: even described as Tanna's workshop. My mother changes everything out
Speaker 6: from Christmas, including the toilet seat covers and the shower curtains.
Speaker 2: And she has a santed toilet seat cover.
Speaker 6: Yes, when it's down, it has Santo with his glove
Speaker 6: and it says ho ho ho.
Speaker 4: And when you.
Speaker 6: Flip it up like it to go to the restroom,
Speaker 6: it has him covering his eyes. It says, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 3: That's now I've heard of it. That's as bad as
Speaker 3: the singing toilet paper.
Speaker 6: She has the the Christmas toilet paper nut doesn't sing.
Speaker 6: But then the shower curtain has Santa in the shower
Speaker 6: with the elves covering parts with a brush and his
Speaker 6: towel looking away.
Speaker 3: So Mom goes all out for the holidays.
Speaker 6: All out. And each year growing up, we used to
Speaker 6: go out to this wonderful Christmas tree farm that when
Speaker 6: my dad knew the owner, and we go out the
Speaker 6: day after Thanksgiving to pick out our tree, and we
Speaker 6: go early in the morning and tag our tree because
Speaker 6: we knew we'd be there all day, because they always
Speaker 6: chatted and want my mom.
Speaker 3: And the kids ran through the trees and played and
Speaker 3: got all muddy while mom and.
Speaker 2: Dad drank hot cocoa and talked to all their friends.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: Actually I ended up working off the tree every year.
Speaker 6: I just thought it was so much fun. I ran
Speaker 6: the shaker, put the tree in a shaker and turn
Speaker 6: it on, and then rake up all the needles and
Speaker 6: then help them bag the trees.
Speaker 3: So you enjoyed working while everybody else was out running
Speaker 3: through the trees.
Speaker 6: I just enjoyed watching everybody. So at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, well, my dad would try and actually pay
Speaker 6: for a tree to go. Was always like, no, she's
Speaker 6: worked it off.
Speaker 3: She worked, so you got a free tree because of
Speaker 3: your hard work. Well, you have a wonderful Christmas this year.
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling.
Speaker 2: Thank you the merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Wanda, Hi Liz, Hi, welcome aboard. How are you this evening?
Speaker 7: I'm fine? How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm wonderful. I hear you have a wonderful Christmas tradition
Speaker 3: to share with me.
Speaker 7: Yes, my sister and I her and her husband live
Speaker 7: down the street and they come over for dinner probably
Speaker 7: about once a week. You know, the four of us
Speaker 7: were all very close, and one night in particular, it
Speaker 7: was probably, you know, just after Thanksgiving, and the boys
Speaker 7: were out doing their thing, and I was home with
Speaker 7: my girls, and my sister had come over and we Mike.
Speaker 7: She helped me decorate my house and my Christmas tree,
Speaker 7: and we sat down at the kitchen table, just lit
Speaker 7: by all the Christmas lights, nothing else, and we sat down,
Speaker 7: we were drinking some wine and listening to your show,
Speaker 7: and every Christmas song that came on, we just would
Speaker 7: start to, you know, tear up and get emotional, and
Speaker 7: we just kind of reminisce about our childhood and we
Speaker 7: just had such a wonderful night. It was just, you know,
Speaker 7: just full of memories and just being silly and all that.
Speaker 7: And so we decided that every year we were going
Speaker 7: to do that, and sure enough, this year we did.
Speaker 7: We sat down, they came over and we decorated my
Speaker 7: house again, and we did the same thing. And the
Speaker 7: difference was that this year something something terrible. It happened
Speaker 7: to my husband this summer. He was involved in a
Speaker 7: very bad fall, and miraculously he is okay, you know,
Speaker 7: So that was one of the things that we were
Speaker 7: just counting our blessings this year that thank God, you
Speaker 7: know that he's okay, and that four of us were
Speaker 7: together again, and so.
Speaker 3: All those all those songs, all those stories, all those
Speaker 3: memories mean even a thousand times more.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely absolutely. We were sitting there saying to ourselves,
Speaker 7: you know, as bad as it was that had happened
Speaker 7: over the summer, could you imagine if it happened now,
Speaker 7: you know, over the holiday season, and the fact that
Speaker 7: I have him here and he's okay, and you know,
Speaker 7: my girls have their dad back, and it's just it's
Speaker 7: a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 3: It is a Christmas miracle, and I'm so glad that
Speaker 3: I could be a part of it here on the show.
Speaker 7: Oh, we're glad too.
Speaker 3: Oh you go count your blessings and have a wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 3: God bless you, sweetie.
Speaker 7: You too.
Speaker 3: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments.
Speaker 1: As much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll
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