Speaker 1: Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 2: I have put together some of my favorite radio moments
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Speaker 2: my friend. Welcome aboard, Come in, Come in, Come in.
Speaker 2: I am here to talk to you. I am here
Speaker 2: to listen to you, to listen to you, to listen
Speaker 2: a lot of times to what you're not saying. You know,
Speaker 2: that's where the truth lies. The truth lies usually in
Speaker 2: what you're not saying. It's easy to reveal the things
Speaker 2: there really don't matter much, the stuff that's just sort
Speaker 2: of surface. But when you go a little deeper, when
Speaker 2: you dig a little deeper, that's when it gets hard
Speaker 2: to share it. And honestly, that's where the miracles happen,
Speaker 2: in that true intimacy and that true depth of your heart.
Speaker 2: And that's what I want to get to. I want
Speaker 2: to find out what's really going on in your heart.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have divorced your heart to such a point
Speaker 2: you don't even know what you're feeling. Well, I'm here
Speaker 2: to remind you to reconnect with your heart.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: Who is this?
Speaker 4: Hi? This is Wendy.
Speaker 1: Wendy Welcome. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to go on and request a song.
Speaker 1: Who are you thinking of?
Speaker 4: And well, actually everything that has finally gone right in
Speaker 4: my life after so many years of things going bad.
Speaker 1: So right now you're enjoying the highs of a good
Speaker 1: time instead of the lows of difficult times.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, First, first off, I'm blind. I you know,
Speaker 4: became blind at a young age. Married a wonderful man,
Speaker 4: but I lost them two years ago and then virtually
Speaker 4: lost everything I own And now all of a ud
Speaker 4: sudden things have turned around. I've met somebody wonderful and
Speaker 4: I'm closing out a house.
Speaker 1: Wow, I would say things have turned around.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And through it all, through the trials and tribulations, did
Speaker 5: you falter in your faith?
Speaker 1: Did you ever say I give up God?
Speaker 4: Yes I did. I crashed. I actually wound up in
Speaker 4: the hospital. Some stress. You know, things just went you know,
Speaker 4: like how can always happen to me? But it's turned
Speaker 4: around and now.
Speaker 1: You're dancing again. You're feeling joy again.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, you're in love again.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 1: What's your boyfriend's name?
Speaker 7: Ray?
Speaker 1: Well? You sound good?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: I feel really good through all this. You know, I
Speaker 4: put on quite a bit away with my husband because
Speaker 4: he was in a nursing home for five years and
Speaker 4: I've taken off forty pounds and feeling great.
Speaker 1: Ah, good for you. So you're making lots of positive choices.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, and I'm back to church.
Speaker 1: So you're walking with God. And it sounds like maybe
Speaker 1: you're just walking and getting into shape.
Speaker 4: Yes, I am play.
Speaker 5: A song for you and for this new person in
Speaker 5: your life, and for the wonderful things God is bringing about.
Speaker 1: Sloca. Yes, that's a name I haven't heard before.
Speaker 4: Nope, what can I.
Speaker 1: Do for you?
Speaker 3: I have a daughter, Stephanie, who's nineteen and she's at university.
Speaker 3: This is her second year at university, and I just
Speaker 3: wanted to let her know that I'm very, very proud
Speaker 3: of her because her grade twelve year was really hard.
Speaker 3: Her dad left me after twenty five years of marriage
Speaker 3: and she's been finding it hard.
Speaker 5: So she's been finding it hard to see what she
Speaker 5: thought was the ideal family go down the dream.
Speaker 3: You have down the dream very badly.
Speaker 6: Ann.
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing better now, but it was very hard watching
Speaker 3: her go through. It made me feel very guilty.
Speaker 1: Why guilty I just did? I mean, you're not the
Speaker 1: one who chose to end the marriage.
Speaker 3: No, but I just feel she deserves better. I love
Speaker 3: her with all my.
Speaker 1: Heart, that is obvious.
Speaker 5: But we all make mistakes, we all make bad choices,
Speaker 5: and all we can do is the best we can do.
Speaker 5: Don't beat yourself up anymore, okay. And I know we
Speaker 5: want to protect our children at all times from feeling
Speaker 5: pain or being uncomfortable or experiencing heartache. And that's because
Speaker 5: you know, we love them and we never want somebody
Speaker 5: we love to suffer.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, through those difficult.
Speaker 5: Times that Stephanie is going through, she will develop an
Speaker 5: even stronger character than she had before.
Speaker 1: I hope so, I know. So okay, because she's got
Speaker 1: her mama's love to fall back on.
Speaker 5: All right, God, bless you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 1: This is Delilah who's with me on the phone lines? Becky, Becky,
Speaker 1: how can I help you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I was just hoping that you could play a song
Speaker 6: for me. Having a real tough time handling the teenage years.
Speaker 1: How old are you?
Speaker 6: I'm fourteen.
Speaker 1: Ooh, so you've got quite a few of those teenage
Speaker 1: years ahead of you.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Well, the good news is, Becky, just when you figure
Speaker 5: out how to handle them, you'll be out of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I was hoping that you could give me
Speaker 6: some of your words.
Speaker 5: Well, the best words that I have are to believe
Speaker 5: in yourself, believe in God, and make healthy choices. If
Speaker 5: you will do those three things, you won't get yourself
Speaker 5: in the trouble that I got myself into during the
Speaker 5: teenage years.
Speaker 6: Well, i think I'm stearing myself in the right direction,
Speaker 6: and my parents tell me the same, and I'm just
Speaker 6: hoping that everything is going to be okay in the end.
Speaker 5: It Well, you're going to have some rough spots and
Speaker 5: some rocky roads because this is the time of life
Speaker 5: when you really determine who you are, what your gifts are,
Speaker 5: You discover your talents and your skills. You're deciding, Okay,
Speaker 5: do I want to go into theatrics or do I
Speaker 5: want to take up you know, engineering, what are my interests?
Speaker 5: You're so influenced by your friends. Your peer groups become
Speaker 5: so important, and if they're steering you down the wrong path,
Speaker 5: you're going to get in trouble.
Speaker 6: So I wanted to tell you that it's an honor
Speaker 6: to talk to you, and you are my idol.
Speaker 5: Oh, well, thank you, but trust me I'm not somebody
Speaker 5: to idolize.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, God bless you, honey. You're going to
Speaker 1: be just fine.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Hi, Renee. Hello, this is Delilah. How can I help you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I just want to let people know that, See, I
Speaker 7: have been clean now in a year, and I've been
Speaker 7: struggling drug and alcohol for ten years, and there is hope.
Speaker 5: So, Renee, what was your drug of choice? If you
Speaker 5: don't mind me prying, and you've been clean over a year? Yeah, wow,
Speaker 5: good for you. Could you do me a favor? Yeah,
Speaker 5: take your right hand, reach it across to your left shoulder,
Speaker 5: and give yourself a big.
Speaker 1: Pat on the back.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I'm very proud you should be for the first
Speaker 7: time in my life.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this, did you did you
Speaker 5: decide to seek recovery on your own? Did somebody do
Speaker 5: an intervention? How did you make a.
Speaker 3: Decision that I got tired of the life.
Speaker 7: You know, I had been fighting this off and on
Speaker 7: for ten years, you.
Speaker 5: Know, so a miracle you're still alive. Yeah, and today
Speaker 5: you're clean and sober.
Speaker 7: Yeah I am. And it's just it's so wonderful because
Speaker 7: now I have a chance. I have a little boy,
Speaker 7: and I'm trying to get my visitation rights back and stuff,
Speaker 7: you know, because I didn't take some attention to my
Speaker 7: little boys the last two years of my life because
Speaker 7: of the drugs and alcohol and the men. But today
Speaker 7: I can sit down and realize that I don't need it,
Speaker 7: and that God has helped me out, and I'm just
Speaker 7: amazed that I'm clean and sober again. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: Well, if you continue to work your program, and you
Speaker 5: continue to maintain that faith in God, I have a
Speaker 5: feeling you'll continue to be amazed at the miracles that'll
Speaker 5: come into your life with sobriety.
Speaker 2: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 2: much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
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