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
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Speaker 2: How do you keep your peace of mind?
Speaker 1: For me, it begins and ends with prayer, with knowing
Speaker 1: that there is a higher power in charge, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to be and when I remember that, I
Speaker 1: can have peace in the midst of the storms of life.
Speaker 1: With all the insanity going on in the world, it
Speaker 1: is so hard to stay focused when there are all
Speaker 1: these distractions. So what do you do? What do you
Speaker 1: do to maintain your peace of mind, to maintain your equilibrium,
Speaker 1: to be at peace, to continue to be effective, and
Speaker 1: your relationships and your job and your family. You can't
Speaker 1: let all these things steal your joy.
Speaker 2: Hi Dan, Welcome to the Delilah Show. What can I
Speaker 2: do for you?
Speaker 3: Hi, Delilah, I'm going to let you know I work
Speaker 3: three jobs and I don't have much time to listen
Speaker 3: to the radio during the day. So after my last job,
Speaker 3: I usually listen to other stations. And I was flipping
Speaker 3: the jails one night and got you on and you know,
Speaker 3: listening to you talking about you know, life and you know,
Speaker 3: instead of just playing music. You're talking about real instances
Speaker 3: in life. You kind of motivated me a little bit
Speaker 3: to kind of get back to talking to the Creator.
Speaker 3: So what I do is on the way home, when
Speaker 3: listening to you, I will pull over in an area
Speaker 3: and kind of look up at the stars and just
Speaker 3: chill out and just kind of relax a little bit
Speaker 3: and just kind of talk to God a little bit
Speaker 3: and get back to that instead of just you know,
Speaker 3: the daily grind and just forget about everything, you know,
Speaker 3: like the religious stuff, and just forget all about that.
Speaker 3: And I don't need to do that. I need to
Speaker 3: get back more with God. And you've kind of inspired
Speaker 3: me to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. When you talk to him again, would
Speaker 2: you put in a good word for me?
Speaker 3: I will put in as many good words as you are.
Speaker 3: But it's just, you know, when you see the stars
Speaker 3: at night, it's you know, and there's not much traffic,
Speaker 3: so you know, I'm it's just really kind of really
Speaker 3: basically relaxing, relaxing, and you get back to, you know,
Speaker 3: where life needs to be. You kind of try to
Speaker 3: put it in perspective instead of the daily grind all
Speaker 3: the time. Hurry up, hurry up. Hurry up.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times people make God so
Speaker 1: complicated or so difficult to understand, or so pious or
Speaker 1: so distant out there, when just like you said, just
Speaker 1: looking at the stars, enjoying the magnificent beauty he created,
Speaker 1: Being able to love completely and deeply and get in
Speaker 1: touch with that side of us that hungers and lungs
Speaker 1: for that connection.
Speaker 2: That's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for bringing me back to reality.
Speaker 2: Hi Diane, thanks for calling. This is Delilah. What can
Speaker 2: I do for you?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to tell you how I met my sweetheart.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, tell me your story.
Speaker 4: When I was a little girl, my sister in law,
Speaker 4: who was dating my brother at the time, had a
Speaker 4: subscription to a magazine that was written by missionary kids,
Speaker 4: and we would read this magazine together every month and
Speaker 4: then pray for one of the kids for the whole
Speaker 4: month that we liked their story the best. And one
Speaker 4: month we picked this story because the picture of the
Speaker 4: boy and the story. He had a monkey on his shoulder,
Speaker 4: and we just thought it would be really cool to
Speaker 4: have a monkey for a pet, so we picked him,
Speaker 4: and as time went by, he kept coming to mind.
Speaker 4: The picture stuck in my head, even though you know,
Speaker 4: life goes on, and we didn't get together to rethrough
Speaker 4: the magazine anymore once we grew up. But so when
Speaker 4: I was in college, I met somebody who also was
Speaker 4: had grown up as a missionary kid, but he wanted
Speaker 4: to go back and work with his parents, and so
Speaker 4: we dated and we ended up getting married, and we
Speaker 4: never actually went to the mission field, but we had
Speaker 4: a family, and we were moving into a house about
Speaker 4: three years ago. We'd been married for about seventeen years,
Speaker 4: and I was going through a box of old stuff
Speaker 4: and trying to a.
Speaker 2: Long time later, yes, and I.
Speaker 4: Found an issue of this magazine that my sister in
Speaker 4: law used to get and I thought, oh, that's cool.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen this magazine in years. And I suddenly
Speaker 4: was staring at the picture of the boy with the
Speaker 4: monkey on his shoulder that had been in my head
Speaker 4: for all those years. And I discovered that it was
Speaker 4: my husband who wrote the article. He wrote the article
Speaker 4: when he was on the mission field with his parents.
Speaker 1: Did you just start screaming when you discovered that I
Speaker 1: was faking?
Speaker 4: I was crying.
Speaker 3: I was like, you won't believe this.
Speaker 4: You have to come see this. He's like, I know,
Speaker 4: I've seen it. I wrote it, and I was like, but.
Speaker 3: You don't understand.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, go enjoy your life, your husband, your blessing, and
Speaker 1: let me find a song for you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Lily.
Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
Speaker 5: You've done so much already. I have to tell you,
Speaker 5: I've been through the worst two and a half years
Speaker 5: any person could be going through, and you brought me
Speaker 5: such hope and keep bringing me back to my faith
Speaker 5: that I sometimes feel i'm losing that. I had to
Speaker 5: call and thank you.
Speaker 1: Now. See, here's the secret that you don't realize that,
Speaker 1: no matter what it is that you're going through, or
Speaker 1: whatever mistakes you've made that are stealing your joy and
Speaker 1: making you restless, I've made bigger mistakes.
Speaker 5: Well it wasn't my mistake.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So you're struggling with life issues that have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with life issues that have everything to do
Speaker 1: with my foolishness. Oh does it.
Speaker 2: I can't even blame God or blame fate. I can
Speaker 2: only blame myself.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, see I lost someone very dear to me,
Speaker 5: and I mean very dear, and now I'm very sick.
Speaker 2: And you need a safe place to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and sometimes you just you wonder, God, what are
Speaker 5: you doing to me? You know? And how much is
Speaker 5: one person supposed to bear? And I realized that if
Speaker 5: I keep my faith, it'll work out. And I absolutely
Speaker 5: adore you. You're great.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you? And can I just say this.
Speaker 1: I heard somebody say one time, if God has led
Speaker 1: you to it, he's going to get you through it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he will get you through it if you have faith
Speaker 1: and nothing else. You need a mustard, see the faith
Speaker 1: that whatever trials and tribulations you're facing, you're going to
Speaker 1: come out on the other side as stronger person.
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Chris. Hi.
Speaker 2: This is Delilah. How are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Deliah? If I told you my whole life story start
Speaker 6: to finish to where I'm at right now, see the
Speaker 6: things I've been through. I called you about three years
Speaker 6: ago going through a really bad divorce and I actually
Speaker 6: had to get a paternity test on my daughter because
Speaker 6: I found my wife cheating, and whatever the case may be.
Speaker 6: It called you about three years ago, got on the
Speaker 6: air with you and whatnot, and at that point in
Speaker 6: my life, I thought things were just terrible, and I
Speaker 6: thought it couldn't get me worse, you know, And now
Speaker 6: here I am three years later, and my life is
Speaker 6: just it's a completely happy place because it's not about
Speaker 6: what you want. It's not about what's going on in
Speaker 6: your mind, because you're not in control, and God is.
Speaker 6: And I promise you that, more so than I can
Speaker 6: ever possibly fathom to tell you. God is in control
Speaker 6: and he would do miraculous things in your life. And
Speaker 6: I'm telling you I'm fit, yours living proof. Three years ago,
Speaker 6: I'm telling you it was a different place, and I
Speaker 6: thought that life was falling apart on me. And now
Speaker 6: here I am, and I'm living well. I'm living very good.
Speaker 6: My career is going very well. I don't have a
Speaker 6: girlfriend in my life. I told her, yours sistant. I
Speaker 6: either can have a girlfriend or a good career. I
Speaker 6: can't have both. If you could play it's not a
Speaker 6: love song, I guess, but it's more of a triumphant
Speaker 6: kind of a thing. Then if you can play don't
Speaker 6: stop believing from journey, that would be an awesome thing.
Speaker 6: I've been through drugists, I've been through everything you can
Speaker 6: possibly imagine, and I hold a white collar job with
Speaker 6: no high school education whatsoever, no college degree, no nothing.
Speaker 6: And God is in control. He can give you anything.
Speaker 6: The Bible says God will give you the desires of
Speaker 6: your heart. And if you believe that with everything you've got,
Speaker 6: there is nothing God's not willing to do for you.
Speaker 1: Well hang on to that faith because times are going
Speaker 1: to get rockier and we're going to need people with
Speaker 1: a strong faith to lenan.
Speaker 2: So hang on to that and let me play that song.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, God, bless you honey by christ.
Speaker 2: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 2: much as I enjoy bringing them to you.
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