Speaker 1: Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
Speaker 1: put together some of.
Speaker 2: My favorite radio moments here to share with you on
Speaker 2: our daily podcast.
Speaker 1: Can I share something with you that I truly believe?
Speaker 1: I mean, I believe this with all my heart. I
Speaker 1: believe we all have gifts. We are all given gifts.
Speaker 1: Some of us only have one or two, some of
Speaker 1: us have a multitude of gifts we've been given. What
Speaker 1: is your gift? Once you figure that out and you
Speaker 1: develop that gift, then you get to give it away.
Speaker 1: You get to give it away to make the world
Speaker 1: a better place.
Speaker 2: Hello, good evening.
Speaker 3: Who's this Hello? This is Ellen.
Speaker 4: Ellen.
Speaker 1: What can I do for you?
Speaker 3: What I would like to tell you about is a
Speaker 3: friend of mine, This woman I had hired. She works
Speaker 3: for me, and I hired her originally for cleaning and
Speaker 3: so forth. I have some disabilities. I have epilepsy and
Speaker 3: so forth, and I'm not able to drive, and so
Speaker 3: as I got to know her through the cleaning and
Speaker 3: so forth, I hired her for transportation. Once a week
Speaker 3: she comes and takes me to the grocery store and
Speaker 3: doctor's appointments, all sorts of things. And she has become
Speaker 3: the biggest help in my life. She's just absolutely wonderful
Speaker 3: and I just want to thank her so much all
Speaker 3: the time. She goes above and dian what she does
Speaker 3: just as a friend. You just have no idea. My
Speaker 3: husband is wonderful, my family's wonderful, and they've helped me
Speaker 3: NonStop since the accident where I've acquired things, but she's
Speaker 3: started to enable me to operate again. She's another woman,
Speaker 3: so she's enabled me to see things as I should
Speaker 3: and so forth.
Speaker 2: To help you start living life to the fullest exactly.
Speaker 2: And what's your friend's name? Ellen Nappy? Hi, Marla, Welcome
Speaker 2: to the Delilah Show. Who are you thinking of tonight?
Speaker 5: I am thinking of my mother and my two boys.
Speaker 5: My two boys are both adopted from India, and I
Speaker 5: have a mother who if it were not for her,
Speaker 5: I don't think i'd have them, either one of them.
Speaker 5: And I just, you know, had just was just feeling
Speaker 5: like I just needed to do something to kind of
Speaker 5: honor her more than anything.
Speaker 1: So how old are your boys?
Speaker 5: My boys are seven and four.
Speaker 2: And how old were they when you got custody?
Speaker 5: My oldest one was seven months and my youngest one
Speaker 5: was fourteen months. And they are my mother has My
Speaker 5: mother never met my youngest son, Micah, but she was
Speaker 5: with me every step of the way through Mason's adoptions,
Speaker 5: my older son.
Speaker 2: So, your mom saw you through this, gave you.
Speaker 5: The courage to do it, oh so much?
Speaker 2: Are you a single parent or did you think parents?
Speaker 2: So mom was really thereby our song.
Speaker 5: Was the She was the one that was supportive from
Speaker 5: the very beginning. She was she was a very she
Speaker 5: was a tremendous lady. And you know, I just really,
Speaker 5: like I said, I'm just profoundly grateful because I know
Speaker 5: that was ever, I would never have had the courage
Speaker 5: to have gone through with a second adoption. You know,
Speaker 5: she was said, she was so supportive of this. My
Speaker 5: brother and I are both adopted, So I think she
Speaker 5: understood at a deeper level and I need to do this.
Speaker 5: You know, I truly am blissed.
Speaker 2: Hi, good evening. Welcome to the Delilah Show. Is this Sandy,
Speaker 2: Yes it is well Sandy, welcome. Tell me your story.
Speaker 2: I hear you've got quite the generous heart.
Speaker 6: Yes, my name is Sandy. I'm a visually impaired person.
Speaker 6: I volunteered my time at the American Red Cross to
Speaker 6: throw that people with visual and physical challenges can do
Speaker 6: just about anything if they just set their mind to
Speaker 6: it and stopped thinking that the glass is half empty
Speaker 6: and realize that they can be a contributing factor to America.
Speaker 6: And that's what I stand for, and that's what I
Speaker 6: believe in, and that's what I chose to do, because
Speaker 6: even though I couldn't do other things, I felt that
Speaker 6: volunteering is a part of me.
Speaker 2: Oh good for you, Sandy, thank you for calling, but
Speaker 2: mostly thank you for caring and for volunteering.
Speaker 6: Oh You're welcome. And I also have a visionally mPire
Speaker 6: daughter who also volunteers for her community. Then I taught
Speaker 6: her that spirit, and between the two of us, we
Speaker 6: believe that blind people can do anything they set their
Speaker 6: mind to do, and to stop whining because they can
Speaker 6: do it as long as they have the correct help
Speaker 6: and the equipment to a system.
Speaker 2: In this you don't sound like the kind of person
Speaker 2: who would sit around and whine about anything.
Speaker 6: No, because I've learned in the School for the Blind
Speaker 6: when I was a child, that you've got to get
Speaker 6: up and you gotta wipe yourself off at any cost
Speaker 6: and just do it. Just put it to the limit.
Speaker 2: Well, God bless you. You have a great night hunting, Brenda.
Speaker 1: What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: Well, I just want to tell you that you inspired
Speaker 4: me so much my husband and I to going to
Speaker 4: Africa that we just got back from a missionary trip
Speaker 4: to Costa Rica and we did a lot for the
Speaker 4: children and they just seemed to bless us more than
Speaker 4: we bless them.
Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing? When I went over to Ghana and
Speaker 2: went to work with the refugees, I had this silly
Speaker 2: notion that somehow I would do something good for them,
Speaker 2: And when I got back, I was like, Lord, there's
Speaker 2: nothing I can give them that even begins to compare
Speaker 2: to what you have given me through their love and
Speaker 2: through their friendship.
Speaker 4: I know, Delilah, I know, and listening to you, my
Speaker 4: husband and I listened to you all the time. We
Speaker 4: had been separated for a while, and listening to you
Speaker 4: got us back together and got us on the right path.
Speaker 4: And we had this opportunity. We got to go into
Speaker 4: hospitals and to orphanages where the mothers are very young
Speaker 4: and the children are young, and mothers and children are
Speaker 4: in the orphanages because they're so young, and we handed
Speaker 4: out different things that coloring books and things and little
Speaker 4: dolls and toys that we took down, and they just
Speaker 4: hugged us and hugged us and hugged us. And I
Speaker 4: just want to say what a terrific person you are
Speaker 4: and how much you inspire others. And I am just
Speaker 4: thrilled I got through to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Now, well, I'm thrilled you got through to talk, but
Speaker 2: I'm even more thrilled that you got to go on
Speaker 2: a life changing trip.
Speaker 4: It was it was, Delilah, It was absolutely life changing
Speaker 4: for both of us.
Speaker 2: What's your hobby's name, Richard? And are things better between
Speaker 2: the two of you now?
Speaker 4: Yes? Oh yes, Delilah.
Speaker 2: God bless you, Oh.
Speaker 4: God bless you, Delilah.
Speaker 1: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 1: much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
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