Speaker 1: So in addition to being on the radio every night,
Speaker 1: I've decided that I want to do a podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do a podcast, at least one a week
Speaker 1: for you with you, where we explore in a little
Speaker 1: more depth some things we talk about on the year
Speaker 1: at night. See on when I'm on the radio at night,
Speaker 1: I can only talk for a few minutes because you know,
Speaker 1: we have to play those songs which I love and
Speaker 1: which are great. But there's so much more that I
Speaker 1: want to say. There's so much more that I want
Speaker 1: to share and explore with you. And so we're going
Speaker 1: to be doing a podcast, maybe one a week, maybe
Speaker 1: two or three a week, who knows, depends on how
Speaker 1: inspired I am right now. I am inspired to talk
Speaker 1: about the new year, about hopes and dreams and goals
Speaker 1: and aspirations. And the folks at Twining's t have asked
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Speaker 1: we've created this broadcast podcast. You can listen anytime you want.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be at night, and you can
Speaker 1: pause and stop the podcast and think about what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. You can come back to it, you can
Speaker 1: share it with friends, and I would invite you to
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Speaker 1: the podcast. So the new year is upon us, this
Speaker 1: new month, peace, joy, good health, happiness, universal wishes. Everybody
Speaker 1: is thinking about. It's a new year, a clean slate,
Speaker 1: an opportunity to begin again. And we ask you to
Speaker 1: share some of your specific hopes and dreams and goals
Speaker 1: for And Nita wrote to me and this just really
Speaker 1: broke my heart. But um, I know many of you
Speaker 1: will relate. Nita says, my husband has cancer. So my
Speaker 1: hopes and dreams are for another moment, another day, another month,
Speaker 1: another year with my love enjoying our life together moment
Speaker 1: by moment, we are thankful for another year together. Nita,
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing that, Thank you for writing that.
Speaker 1: Anyone who has loved a person who is critically ill,
Speaker 1: seriously ill, or terminally ill, knows that feeling. And let's
Speaker 1: be honest, we're all terminally ill. Every person born on
Speaker 1: this earth will eventually die. But some people are told
Speaker 1: sooner than others. They know that it's coming. That's that's
Speaker 1: what a diagnosis is. A diagnosis like that where it's
Speaker 1: like a head's up, this is coming. But for many
Speaker 1: of us who have lost loved ones, we didn't get
Speaker 1: the heads up. It was an accident, it was a
Speaker 1: plane crash, it was an infection, something that happened that
Speaker 1: you weren't prepared for. I know that feeling, Nita, of
Speaker 1: praying for one more day, facing those excruciatingly beautiful but
Speaker 1: numbered days. It's it's a holy time. It really is.
Speaker 1: Is when you are walking through those treasured days with
Speaker 1: someone you love, it's holy. It's like you shut the
Speaker 1: world out, you really do. You shut the world out
Speaker 1: and you focus on what really matters, and that's the
Speaker 1: love that you share, the memories that you've created, the
Speaker 1: conversations that you've had. You recognize, you are acutely aware,
Speaker 1: like a not just a magnifying glass, but like a telescope,
Speaker 1: like a powerful microscope. You are acutely aware of how
Speaker 1: precious every moment is and what a gift every moment is,
Speaker 1: and you become so enriched by letting your walls down
Speaker 1: and letting that person all the way in, Because when
Speaker 1: you know that time short, when you know that the
Speaker 1: angels are one day going to come and take your
Speaker 1: loved one home to Heaven, I hope you know that.
Speaker 1: I hope you at least have that peace. When I
Speaker 1: was young, before I made a commitment to God and
Speaker 1: had faith, I lost my brother and I didn't know
Speaker 1: where he was. I didn't have a belief system. I
Speaker 1: wasn't raised with the belief system. I didn't have a
Speaker 1: belief system, and I was so crushed, not knowing, not understanding,
Speaker 1: not having any peace about what happened to my brother
Speaker 1: and his young wife. They were in their twenties. After
Speaker 1: I did a whole lot of reading and a whole
Speaker 1: lot of exploring, and a whole lot of investigating into
Speaker 1: a multiple multitude, I should say, of different belief systems,
Speaker 1: I came back to where my brother had been all along.
Speaker 1: My brother had a very strong faith. He and his
Speaker 1: wife used to go to churches and sing and perform
Speaker 1: and share their story. He had a very strong faith,
Speaker 1: and he tried to share it with me dozens of times,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want anything to do with what he
Speaker 1: had to say. I thought he was being I thought
Speaker 1: he had been brainwashed. I thought he had lost his backbone.
Speaker 1: I thought that everything he was saying was contrary to
Speaker 1: my very progressive thoughts. I was in my early twenties,
Speaker 1: and I thought I knew it all. But after my
Speaker 1: brother and his wife died and I started exploring different theologies,
Speaker 1: different belief systems, I found myself right back where my
Speaker 1: brother had been. I found my faith through losing my brother,
Speaker 1: and I found that everything he said rang true in
Speaker 1: my heart. Everything he had tried to tell me rang true.
Speaker 1: And I asked God into my heart, and my faith
Speaker 1: became the cornerstone of everything that I do. And in
Speaker 1: finding that faith, I also found so much peace in
Speaker 1: knowing where my brother and his wife were. And since then,
Speaker 1: God has called my mom home, my dad home, my grandparents.
Speaker 1: I became the oldest person in our immediate family when
Speaker 1: I was thirty five. Thirty five years old, and I've
Speaker 1: lost a child, I lost a son, but I have
Speaker 1: that peace of knowing where my family is and knowing
Speaker 1: that I will be with him one day. But when
Speaker 1: you are walking through that process of caring for someone,
Speaker 1: loving somebody who has been told there's there's no cure,
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing more the doctors can do, and your
Speaker 1: living moment by moment, hanging on to each moment. When
Speaker 1: you are walking through that that process of watching someone
Speaker 1: you love, whether it's your spouse, your partner, your child,
Speaker 1: your parents, your best friend, when you are watching them battle,
Speaker 1: using all their energy to just get through the day,
Speaker 1: and you want to take away their pain. How many
Speaker 1: of us have prayed God, just take it away and
Speaker 1: put it on me, especially when it's your child. You
Speaker 1: are so focused on how precious each and every moment is,
Speaker 1: and it shows you how foolish the rest of life
Speaker 1: can be. When you are holding the hand of someone
Speaker 1: you love who you know is dying, suddenly you realize
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what kind of car you drive, or
Speaker 1: if your hair is perfect or not, because there's his
Speaker 1: fallen out, and you realize how much of our time
Speaker 1: and energy is wasted, flushed down the toilet on foolishness.
Speaker 1: When you are walking through that process, as Nita our
Speaker 1: listener who wrote sharing her her gratitude for every day
Speaker 1: with her husband who has cancer. When you are walking
Speaker 1: through that process with someone you love, you realize that
Speaker 1: all that matters is love. All that matters is love
Speaker 1: and the moments that you share and the depth of
Speaker 1: your connectedness to that other person. So, if that is
Speaker 1: what you're going through, if you are facing this new
Speaker 1: year and walking through that process with someone you love,
Speaker 1: or maybe you're the one who's who's sick, maybe you're
Speaker 1: the one that has the diagnosis and the doctors are
Speaker 1: not giving a lot of hope. Please please let the
Speaker 1: people in that you love. Let them all the way in,
Speaker 1: even though you don't want them to hurt, even though
Speaker 1: you want to protect them, even though you want to
Speaker 1: be strong for them because you don't want them to
Speaker 1: suffer with you, Let them in, Let them all the
Speaker 1: way into your heart. I hope this podcast has touched
Speaker 1: your heart given you encouragement for this new year as
Speaker 1: we uh, as we stand in this first month, this
Speaker 1: month of January and look forward to the months, the weeks,
Speaker 1: the days ahead, I hope you have been encouraged, and
Speaker 1: I hope you listen to my radio show every night.
Speaker 1: I hope you visit my website, Delilah dot com and
Speaker 1: look for more podcasts to come.