July 30, 2025 • 27 mins
I know the way we meet people has evolved through modern technology, dating apps, Facebook, etc… But never underestimate God as a match maker.
He might put the love of your life right in front of you at the supermarket or maybe in a Bible study, maybe an art class or maybe he just sends them right to your front door.
In this episode I will share a few beautiful stories of love that didn’t require an internet connection because they had a God connection.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, my friend. Welcome to have a Little Faith with Delilah.
This is our new podcast, we just started it a
few months ago, where I get to be very bold,
very very bold, and honest and transparent about my faith
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and what role that plays in my life. My faith
in my life plays a similar role to my spinal column,
my spinal cord, my spinal bones in my body. Yep,
that's how important it is. My faith is my backbone.
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It is the thing that keeps me going, is the
center of everything that I do. It brings me back
to everything I should do when I know that I'm
making bad choices. It guides me. I was twenty six
before I found my way to God. Not that I
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didn't have plenty of opportunities before that, but I'm pretty stubborn,
pretty hardheaded, and because when you come to God, you
got to surrender it. You got to just lay it
down and lay down. I just fell on my face
before him and said, Okay, I give up. I cannot
do this thing called life by myself. I guess I
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do need you, after all. I was twenty six and
I made a lot of different choices, choices that I
thought were good at the time. Looking back. We're probably
trauma bonds, not love. But when I was in my forties,
I was working out at a gym that was maybe
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half a mile from my house, and it is there
that I met the man that is my husband. I
wasn't looking to date, I wasn't looking for love. I was,
in fact, in a relationship that I thought I had
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convinced myself was going to lead to marriage and a
happy ever after. It wasn't meant to be. And I
knew that. I knew that day one. I am so
good at lying to myself. And even though I knew
the relationship that I was in was not God's will
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and had evidence of that, I convinced myself that I
could convince God to see things my way. Just this
one's God, Please, And God kept saying, please don't do this,
Please don't do this, Please do not do this. Stop
doing this. And I couldn't stop doing that, because when
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I am obsessed, when I am addicted, when I am
locked in, you can't get me off course, when I
am bound and determined to run into that brick wall,
you can't stop me. God said, no, it's not going
to work, not because I don't want you to be
blessed and happy. But because this is not right. What
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you are doing, the relationship you are trying to create,
trying to force, it's not right. And I knew that.
I was talking with my friend Sarah Dorman. And if
you know Sarah, she does not mince words. She is
a woman after God's own heart, and she does not
mince words. And she said, Dee, you got to knock
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this off. This is ridiculous. Knock it off. And I said, Sarah,
I would if I could, but I can't. I can't.
The heart wants what the heart wants. And she said,
what's it going to take you recognize this is wrong
and you're still going down that path. Well I went
down that path until there was a cliff and I
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could go no further. And I was so broken hearted.
I was not the least bit interested in dating. And
I was going to the gym trying to keep my
bearings because when I work out, I feel so much better.
And when you see me go to the if you
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see me go to the gym, you know, I am
not like those influencers that you see on social media
and they're cute little outfits, and they're cute little workout
garb and you know their hair pulled back looking cute. No,
I am a hot mess. I am a hot mess
when I go to the gym. And I had a
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white dog, a yellow lab actually, and as you know,
lab shed, so my black workout outfit was further looking
a hot mess because I had dog hair all over it.
And I didn't fix my hair or put makeup on.
I just went to the gym and I worked out,
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and I'd get all hot and sweaty, and I'd come
home and shower and get dressed. But I was not
looking to impress anybody, or flirt with anybody, or look good.
And it was in that situation with a broken heart,
a realization that I should have listened to God in
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the first place, but I didn't, a realization that the
man that I loved deeply completely could not be with me.
He couldn't. He had a life that he had to
live out that did not include me and my children
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in the way that I wanted, not in the way
that I had imagined. And while wrestling with that truth,
I met the man that is my husband, also working
out at the gym, also going through heartbreak as his
marriage of almost thirty years was crumbling and the last
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thing either one of us had in our mind was
dating or flirting or anything of that nature. But it
was there, covered in dog hair, looking like a hot mess,
that I met the man that I would later six
years later Mary. And the sweet thing is we were friends.
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We became friends. We both had teenagers, both that had
learning disabilities, both were struggling in school, and we talked
about it. We didn't talk about our love life, we
didn't talk about our past, we didn't talk about anything
but our faith because he also is a Christian and
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our kids. That's it. Oh and my dog because he
noticed the dog hair and he had a black lab
and so we talked about that, and from that friendship
grew the foundation of what has now been almost a
twenty year relationship. He is certainly not what I imagined
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I would marry, but he is everything I needed. And
in today's podcast, we are going to talk about how
God is the best matchmaker, is the best one to
arrange your forever love up. First, we have Tellia, who
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met her guy at Bible study. She is so young,
but she is fully aware of what she wants and
perhaps this gentleman feels the same. Let's listen to Talia's
love story right now. Talia, what a pretty name. How
can I help to make your night a little sweeter?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I wanted to dedicate a song to my amazing boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What is your amazing boyfriend's name?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
His name is Kevin.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
How long has Kevin been by your side?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We've been together almost two years.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now, Talia. How old are you?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You sound like you're about eighteen. You sound very sweet,
you sound like a good kid. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, we met when I was eighteen at a Bible study.
And I don't know. This one's different. I think maybe
it could be the one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And does he feel that way?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely? He brought up marriage three months into us eating.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tell me what you love most about Kevin?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I honestly think it's just his open mind and his
heart and the fact that he has so much passion
and dedication to put into our future, in the fact
that he's willing to put aside his own wants and
needs sometimes to invest in our future.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And what do you think your future looks like?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hopefully married and living in a beautiful house with two
little kiddos. And maybe I don't I'd love to live
on a ranch, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So when I was twenty, I had a vision of marriage,
a house, a picket fence, a yard, one husband for
the rest of my life. Didn't quite turn out that way.
Oh No, did not turn out that way at all.
At my thirtieth birthday, I was crying because I only
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had one child and I was divorced and I was
in a crazy destructive relationship. And I was just sobbing
in my pizza. At my thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Party, Oh that's so horrible it was.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And ten years later, at my fortieth party, I was
crying again because I was in a marriage but it
was not a healthy or happy marriage, and I was
nursing a baby, and I had adopted kids, and I
knew I was going to be a single parent. Was
six and I was like, God, this is not the
picture of my life I had pictured.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh man, I firmly believe that. You know, sometimes life
doesn't make sense to us, But I think God puts
us and whoever ends up in our life wherever we're
meant to be.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, let me tell you my fiftieth birthday party. I
was rejoicing my sixtieth birthday party. I was really rejoicing,
and I am so looking forward to my seventieth when
that happens, because the more I let go of my
images and my life plan and embrace what God has
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in store for me, every day, it just gets better
and better and better and better.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Absolutely, I agree. It was crazy when we met. I
wasn't going to go to this Bible study and I
had just left the gym and got home, and I
was looking a mess with no makeup, and I had
nobody to go with. And I used to really depend
on having friends and other people. And I was like, no,
I'm not going to go, and something told me to go,
and I went and the only spot left in the
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room was next to him, and we clicked that day.
We met on a Wednesday, he met my parents that Friday,
he met my grandparents that Sunday, and then a month
later he asked me to be his girlfriend under the
same gazebo that my parents got married under at sunset.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, let me play a sweet song for you too.
I hope if this is the one, if this is
God's plan, that all your dreams times a thousand come
to pass.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You have a good night. Let me ask you a question.
How did you meet person you love? Your partner, your spouse,
your significant other. Probably if you've met in the last
five ten years, it was on the internet. It was
on a dating app back in the day before that.
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We had to meet the old fashioned way, you know,
going places and talking to somebody and exchanging phone numbers
or whatever. And just a moment, I'm going to share
one of the sweetest love stories I have ever heard
in my life. How this young girl met her husband
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in the meat section. She didn't want steak, she wanted him.
We're going to find out how that turned out all
these years later. Hi, good evening, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
My name is Betty.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hi Betty, thank you for calling. You have a very
sweet voice. What can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm just so thrilled big I got through. I've been
wait trying to try it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just wanted to call and tell you about my husband.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right, Betty, tell me about your hobby.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
He's a gift from God. I met him. He and
his family had a small grocery store, and one day
I happened. I had never been there, and I went
in there, and I went back by a meat coner
and he was standing behind the meat conor and I
looked at him, and I knew then I was going
to marry him.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So you weren't interested in the ground beef or the
pork chops. You were interested in the grinning young man
behind the counter.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And he said, can I can I give you, you know,
package up a pound or two of ground round And
you said, no, no, I'll take some of some of
that right there.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I picked up a few things and he put him
in a bag and he said, can I carry it
out for you? It was just a small bag, and
I said no, and he is just done carrying it out.
So anyway, we got married sixteen months later, and we've
been married for forty six years.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So you had a small bag of groceries that he
insisted on carrying out. So obviously the attraction was mutual.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yes, it was really mutual, as quick.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
For him as as it was for you, in the
knowing that this was more than just a chance meeting. Yes.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yes, I didn't even know his name. And the first
time he asked me out, I was in the store
and I said, yes, I would go out with him
and I left, and then I thought he has three brothers,
and I didn't know which brother he was, you know,
because he's got Tim, Tom, Tony, and Ted, and I
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didn't know which one, which one he was, and.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Which one was he He was Tim good. I like
that name. That's a good, strong name. Timothy.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
He's a pastor.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh God bless you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
He went to school, he left the store, and he
had to go to college first. We had a we
had a hard time, you know, he had to go
to college before he goes seminary. But it all worked out.
And now, like I said, we've been there for forty
six years, and he does all the grocery shopping. He
brings a gro she's home and puts them all away.
He does all the cooking and all the cleanup. He's
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just he's just I don't know. I just feel like
God brought me to that store that day.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh, he clearly brought you to that store that day.
I would not be surprised when you get to heaven
if you ask for an instant replay, if the Lord
shows you how many angels were following you down the
sidewalk going no, no turn here, go in here, go
right here, right here, this go through this door. Okay,
back to the back, back to the meat section. Go
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walking walking, We're walking.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It was it was amazing. I'm just so thrilled that
I got to talk to you. I listen to you
every night. I go to bed early so I can
lay in bed and listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How is it that he does all the shopping and
all the cooking, Like, are you are you disabled? Did
you choose not to do that? Or is he just
a great guy?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I had an episode this past April. I had a
fib and a slight stroke, and I was in the
hospital for seven days and acute care, and then I
had to go to a rehab place for eighteen days.
So I was gone from home for almost a month.
So I'm on the road to recovery. You know, I
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can get around now, I can. I can do the
laundry and things like that, but I don't. I don't
go out really really too much. I go to church
and stuff like that. You know, if he goes to
the store sometimes I write in the store, wait in
the car for him.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well you sound wonderful for somebody that was knocking on
death's door.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, it's exactly right. He didn't even think I was
gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
God said, Nope, not ready for you yet, Betty. A
little more work to do down there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You know what, I don't remember anything about when I
went to the hospital. I was in the emergency where
I went to because I had a store on my foot,
and this doctor noticed at my feet and ankles were
swall and I was breathing funny, and they wheeled me
into the hospital. But I don't remember anything that happened
that whole week. I don't know what kind of tests
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they druined me, or how they were throwing me around,
you know, doing this and doing that. I don't remember
any of it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But you're here today, Praise God.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I know that God was there. I mean, you know
he had to be there because I'm here, so I
know he was with me all.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right, forty eight years, loving the same man, probably the
only man I'm guessing you ever really truly loved. Best
wisdom you could share with a newlywed. I have a
granddaughter that just eloped. She and her sweetheart, they have
a family. God bless them with a daughter when she
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was only seventeen. But he's a beautiful young man. And
he loves my granddaughter so much and they just got married.
Best advice wisdom you could share with a young couple
just starting their journey.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I guide my daughters. You know, we've got four, four children.
They're all grown up, but you know, I just try
to teach them that you got to learn to be
accepting and you know, loving your spouse, you know. And
just I don't know, we just really we are so
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much in love yet that you know, I just I
don't know. Well now, you know, since I've been out
a little bit and stuff, people tell me how much
he missed me and how sad he was that I
was gone. But he came to visit me every single day.
He told me that I asked him to stay overnight
at the hospital, but I don't remember that either.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I am glad God sent you such a gentle gentle man.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I wish you could meet him. He is the kindest
and he's so handsome. He's the kind of man, you know,
he does everything for me. He waits emmy. He was
so kind, so tender, and.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm so glad Betty, you made it through that health scare. Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I know, he's very, very protective of me now. But
he actually, you know, he's a full time pastor, but
he also is a chaplain at a hospital three mornings
a week, so he goes around and visits the patients
in the hospital only or if they want a prayer,
then he prays with them and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Can I say a quick prayer for you, Yes, Father, God.
I thank you Lord for letting Betty get through on
the phone lines tonight. I thank you God for the
gift of love that you've given her and Tim all
these years, almost five decades. Lord, what a gift. I
thank you God for the family that you've built, the children,
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the grandchildren now the great grand babies, and all the
memories and all the love and all the joy that
you have brought through these two. Father, I thank you
for Betty, for her life, for saving her life. And Father,
she said she's on the road to recovery. I pray
that you would grant her good health all the days
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of her life. Father, All of our days are numbered
before a single one comes to pass. We know that
full well. But God, while she's here, while she and
her husband have these days together, these years together, I
pray she would be fully restored, fully healthy, able to
go and do and see and experience and live life fully.
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I pray God you would give her health and strength
and joy and laughter and love. Bless her husband, Bless
his ministry, Bless the people he prays for. Give him
the gift of healing. Lord. So when he's at the
hospital and he prays for someone, Lord, miracles will happen.
Miracles will happen like happen when you were here on earth,
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that the blind would see, that the death would hear,
that the lame would walk again and leap again. Father,
I prayed that you would give him that anointing. And
I asked this in your precious and your holy name. Amen.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, thank you, Amen. I love you, Tlila, I really do.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you, sweetheart, God bless you. That call from Betty
was amazing, especially to get that call on the same
night as Talia. A beginning love and a mature, seasoned love,
both matches made by God. Bill reunited with his first
love and a surprise surprise, a surprise package he never
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knew about. We are going to talk to him next. Hi, Bill,
this is Delilah. What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yes, ma'am, I've been listening to you for Oh, I
was twelve when I started listening to you. I think
my wife now met her back when I was seventeen,
and he got pregnant and got scared and ran off.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Wait a second, stop right there, Bill, Did you know
she was pregnant? Did you know you had a child
out there for eighteen years?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
No, ma'am? What No, ma'am. I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So she just she saw the little plus mark, she
ran and she she left the area. She left the
state where.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
She go that's the state way back when before this
all happened, and she got married down here. I got
married up there, didn't work out, did not work out whatsoever.
When my daughter was eighteen, she wanted to meet me,
so they came up to Massachusetts BOMBI, and all of
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a sudden things worked out again. And now we are
fifty five years old, thirteen kids, eleven girls, two boys,
and twenty two grandkids and.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Back together we are now married. How did the first
meeting go? And what in the world did you think
when you saw a grown daughter?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I couldn't even describe it. I'm like, I have a daughter.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Did she call you? Did she contact you on like Facebook?
Or did she show up? At your front door.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
No, she just showed up the front door.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Was your daughter with her at the time or did
that come later?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Nope, daughter was with her at that time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And when you looked at her daughter, did you see
a mini you? Or does she look more like mom?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Say my same nose, same yes?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And did you look at her and go wait a minute,
wait a minute, that's a female me? Where did this
come from?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
He?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Exactly. It was a very shocking experience.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So was your other wife out of the picture this
time or was she on her way out?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
So she was out of the picture at that time.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So you were single, ready to mingle. And now there
is your ex girlfriend and your daughter standing on your
front porch. Yes, wow, yes, How many children do you have?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Now? We have eleven kids?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
No, I got that. But how many were yours with
another woman?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I have one and we've adopted all the rest?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
God bless you. So you had one child besides your
daughter that you just found out about, or is that
the one?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So I have two?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So you have two bio children, one with her, one
with someone else. She had four bio children with somebody else. Yes,
so you had six biological children, and then together you
have adopted.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
How many more We've adopted seven more.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And twenty two grandkids. How many still live at home?
How many children are under your roof?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You have nobody living under our roof.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They're all grown and gone and bringing home grand babies
every other day.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yep. Wow, they all have good lives. I've told them
hard lessons and they all have good lives.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Well, what you're gonna have to send me? You can
go to my Facebook page and or just send it
to d at Delilah dot com. You're going to have
to send me a family picture.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh, yes, we can do that, because this.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Is too sweet. All right, I'm going to play a
sweet song for you and your whole family. Bill, thank
you for calling.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You're welcome, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I appreciate you, and I appreciate the fact that you
and your wife, when you got back together, decided to
share the love and adopt children.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You have a great night, honey. Thank you, Thank you.
So it's fun. It's wonderful when God literally puts the
love of your life in front of you when you
are young. Often we can miss that and go a
different path. Bill and his girls found their way back
to one another. I know the way we meet people
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has become modern technology apps, text, Facebook, dating apps mostly,
but never underestimate God. He might put the love of
your life right in front of you at the supermarket,
maybe in a Bible study, maybe in art class, maybe
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when you're covered in dog hair at the gym. You
never know. Just trust, pray and believe. Thank you for
spending this time with me, and have a little faith.
Find me on the radio, find me every single night
and join me once again and for my next episode
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of have a Little Faith with the line up delight
Hello, my friend. Welcome to have a Little Faith with Delilah.
This is our new podcast, we just started it a
few months ago, where I get to be very bold,
very very bold, and honest and transparent about my faith
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and what role that plays in my life. My faith
in my life plays a similar role to my spinal column,
my spinal cord, my spinal bones in my body. Yep,
that's how important it is. My faith is my backbone.
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It is the thing that keeps me going, is the
center of everything that I do. It brings me back
to everything I should do when I know that I'm
making bad choices. It guides me. I was twenty six
before I found my way to God. Not that I
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didn't have plenty of opportunities before that, but I'm pretty stubborn,
pretty hardheaded, and because when you come to God, you
got to surrender it. You got to just lay it
down and lay down. I just fell on my face
before him and said, Okay, I give up. I cannot
do this thing called life by myself. I guess I
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do need you, after all. I was twenty six and
I made a lot of different choices, choices that I
thought were good at the time. Looking back. We're probably
trauma bonds, not love. But when I was in my forties,
I was working out at a gym that was maybe
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half a mile from my house, and it is there
that I met the man that is my husband. I
wasn't looking to date, I wasn't looking for love. I was,
in fact, in a relationship that I thought I had
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convinced myself was going to lead to marriage and a
happy ever after. It wasn't meant to be. And I
knew that. I knew that day one. I am so
good at lying to myself. And even though I knew
the relationship that I was in was not God's will
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and had evidence of that, I convinced myself that I
could convince God to see things my way. Just this
one's God, Please, And God kept saying, please don't do this,
Please don't do this, Please do not do this. Stop
doing this. And I couldn't stop doing that, because when
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I am obsessed, when I am addicted, when I am
locked in, you can't get me off course, when I
am bound and determined to run into that brick wall,
you can't stop me. God said, no, it's not going
to work, not because I don't want you to be
blessed and happy. But because this is not right. What
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you are doing, the relationship you are trying to create,
trying to force, it's not right. And I knew that.
I was talking with my friend Sarah Dorman. And if
you know Sarah, she does not mince words. She is
a woman after God's own heart, and she does not
mince words. And she said, Dee, you got to knock
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this off. This is ridiculous. Knock it off. And I said, Sarah,
I would if I could, but I can't. I can't.
The heart wants what the heart wants. And she said,
what's it going to take you recognize this is wrong
and you're still going down that path. Well I went
down that path until there was a cliff and I
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could go no further. And I was so broken hearted.
I was not the least bit interested in dating. And
I was going to the gym trying to keep my
bearings because when I work out, I feel so much better.
And when you see me go to the if you
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see me go to the gym, you know, I am
not like those influencers that you see on social media
and they're cute little outfits, and they're cute little workout
garb and you know their hair pulled back looking cute. No,
I am a hot mess. I am a hot mess
when I go to the gym. And I had a
(04:44):
white dog, a yellow lab actually, and as you know,
lab shed, so my black workout outfit was further looking
a hot mess because I had dog hair all over it.
And I didn't fix my hair or put makeup on.
I just went to the gym and I worked out,
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and I'd get all hot and sweaty, and I'd come
home and shower and get dressed. But I was not
looking to impress anybody, or flirt with anybody, or look good.
And it was in that situation with a broken heart,
a realization that I should have listened to God in
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the first place, but I didn't, a realization that the
man that I loved deeply completely could not be with me.
He couldn't. He had a life that he had to
live out that did not include me and my children
(05:45):
in the way that I wanted, not in the way
that I had imagined. And while wrestling with that truth,
I met the man that is my husband, also working
out at the gym, also going through heartbreak as his
marriage of almost thirty years was crumbling and the last
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thing either one of us had in our mind was
dating or flirting or anything of that nature. But it
was there, covered in dog hair, looking like a hot mess,
that I met the man that I would later six
years later Mary. And the sweet thing is we were friends.
(06:28):
We became friends. We both had teenagers, both that had
learning disabilities, both were struggling in school, and we talked
about it. We didn't talk about our love life, we
didn't talk about our past, we didn't talk about anything
but our faith because he also is a Christian and
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our kids. That's it. Oh and my dog because he
noticed the dog hair and he had a black lab
and so we talked about that, and from that friendship
grew the foundation of what has now been almost a
twenty year relationship. He is certainly not what I imagined
(07:12):
I would marry, but he is everything I needed. And
in today's podcast, we are going to talk about how
God is the best matchmaker, is the best one to
arrange your forever love up. First, we have Tellia, who
(07:33):
met her guy at Bible study. She is so young,
but she is fully aware of what she wants and
perhaps this gentleman feels the same. Let's listen to Talia's
love story right now. Talia, what a pretty name. How
can I help to make your night a little sweeter?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I wanted to dedicate a song to my amazing boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What is your amazing boyfriend's name?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
His name is Kevin.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
How long has Kevin been by your side?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
We've been together almost two years.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now, Talia. How old are you?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You sound like you're about eighteen. You sound very sweet,
you sound like a good kid. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, we met when I was eighteen at a Bible study.
And I don't know. This one's different. I think maybe
it could be the one.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And does he feel that way?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely? He brought up marriage three months into us eating.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Tell me what you love most about Kevin?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I honestly think it's just his open mind and his
heart and the fact that he has so much passion
and dedication to put into our future, in the fact
that he's willing to put aside his own wants and
needs sometimes to invest in our future.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And what do you think your future looks like?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hopefully married and living in a beautiful house with two
little kiddos. And maybe I don't I'd love to live
on a ranch, but who knows.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So when I was twenty, I had a vision of marriage,
a house, a picket fence, a yard, one husband for
the rest of my life. Didn't quite turn out that way.
Oh No, did not turn out that way at all.
At my thirtieth birthday, I was crying because I only
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had one child and I was divorced and I was
in a crazy destructive relationship. And I was just sobbing
in my pizza. At my thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Party, Oh that's so horrible it was.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And ten years later, at my fortieth party, I was
crying again because I was in a marriage but it
was not a healthy or happy marriage, and I was
nursing a baby, and I had adopted kids, and I
knew I was going to be a single parent. Was
six and I was like, God, this is not the
picture of my life I had pictured.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh man, I firmly believe that. You know, sometimes life
doesn't make sense to us, But I think God puts
us and whoever ends up in our life wherever we're
meant to be.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, let me tell you my fiftieth birthday party. I
was rejoicing my sixtieth birthday party. I was really rejoicing,
and I am so looking forward to my seventieth when
that happens, because the more I let go of my
images and my life plan and embrace what God has
(10:40):
in store for me, every day, it just gets better
and better and better and better.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Absolutely, I agree. It was crazy when we met. I
wasn't going to go to this Bible study and I
had just left the gym and got home, and I
was looking a mess with no makeup, and I had
nobody to go with. And I used to really depend
on having friends and other people. And I was like, no,
I'm not going to go, and something told me to go,
and I went and the only spot left in the
(11:07):
room was next to him, and we clicked that day.
We met on a Wednesday, he met my parents that Friday,
he met my grandparents that Sunday, and then a month
later he asked me to be his girlfriend under the
same gazebo that my parents got married under at sunset.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well, let me play a sweet song for you too.
I hope if this is the one, if this is
God's plan, that all your dreams times a thousand come
to pass.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
You have a good night. Let me ask you a question.
How did you meet person you love? Your partner, your spouse,
your significant other. Probably if you've met in the last
five ten years, it was on the internet. It was
on a dating app back in the day before that.
(11:59):
We had to meet the old fashioned way, you know,
going places and talking to somebody and exchanging phone numbers
or whatever. And just a moment, I'm going to share
one of the sweetest love stories I have ever heard
in my life. How this young girl met her husband
(12:19):
in the meat section. She didn't want steak, she wanted him.
We're going to find out how that turned out all
these years later. Hi, good evening, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
My name is Betty.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Hi Betty, thank you for calling. You have a very
sweet voice. What can I do for you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I'm just so thrilled big I got through. I've been
wait trying to try it.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
I just wanted to call and tell you about my husband.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
All right, Betty, tell me about your hobby.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
He's a gift from God. I met him. He and
his family had a small grocery store, and one day
I happened. I had never been there, and I went
in there, and I went back by a meat coner
and he was standing behind the meat conor and I
looked at him, and I knew then I was going
to marry him.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
So you weren't interested in the ground beef or the
pork chops. You were interested in the grinning young man
behind the counter.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And he said, can I can I give you, you know,
package up a pound or two of ground round And
you said, no, no, I'll take some of some of
that right there.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I picked up a few things and he put him
in a bag and he said, can I carry it
out for you? It was just a small bag, and
I said no, and he is just done carrying it out.
So anyway, we got married sixteen months later, and we've
been married for forty six years.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So you had a small bag of groceries that he
insisted on carrying out. So obviously the attraction was mutual.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yes, it was really mutual, as quick.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
For him as as it was for you, in the
knowing that this was more than just a chance meeting. Yes.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yes, I didn't even know his name. And the first
time he asked me out, I was in the store
and I said, yes, I would go out with him
and I left, and then I thought he has three brothers,
and I didn't know which brother he was, you know,
because he's got Tim, Tom, Tony, and Ted, and I
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didn't know which one, which one he was, and.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Which one was he He was Tim good. I like
that name. That's a good, strong name. Timothy.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
He's a pastor.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh God bless you.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
He went to school, he left the store, and he
had to go to college first. We had a we
had a hard time, you know, he had to go
to college before he goes seminary. But it all worked out.
And now, like I said, we've been there for forty
six years, and he does all the grocery shopping. He
brings a gro she's home and puts them all away.
He does all the cooking and all the cleanup. He's
(15:05):
just he's just I don't know. I just feel like
God brought me to that store that day.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh, he clearly brought you to that store that day.
I would not be surprised when you get to heaven
if you ask for an instant replay, if the Lord
shows you how many angels were following you down the
sidewalk going no, no turn here, go in here, go
right here, right here, this go through this door. Okay,
back to the back, back to the meat section. Go
(15:33):
walking walking, We're walking.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It was it was amazing. I'm just so thrilled that
I got to talk to you. I listen to you
every night. I go to bed early so I can
lay in bed and listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How is it that he does all the shopping and
all the cooking, Like, are you are you disabled? Did
you choose not to do that? Or is he just
a great guy?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I had an episode this past April. I had a
fib and a slight stroke, and I was in the
hospital for seven days and acute care, and then I
had to go to a rehab place for eighteen days.
So I was gone from home for almost a month.
So I'm on the road to recovery. You know, I
(16:20):
can get around now, I can. I can do the
laundry and things like that, but I don't. I don't
go out really really too much. I go to church
and stuff like that. You know, if he goes to
the store sometimes I write in the store, wait in
the car for him.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well you sound wonderful for somebody that was knocking on
death's door.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, it's exactly right. He didn't even think I was
gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
God said, Nope, not ready for you yet, Betty. A
little more work to do down there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You know what, I don't remember anything about when I
went to the hospital. I was in the emergency where
I went to because I had a store on my foot,
and this doctor noticed at my feet and ankles were
swall and I was breathing funny, and they wheeled me
into the hospital. But I don't remember anything that happened
that whole week. I don't know what kind of tests
(17:10):
they druined me, or how they were throwing me around,
you know, doing this and doing that. I don't remember
any of it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
But you're here today, Praise God.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I know that God was there. I mean, you know
he had to be there because I'm here, so I
know he was with me all.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Right, forty eight years, loving the same man, probably the
only man I'm guessing you ever really truly loved. Best
wisdom you could share with a newlywed. I have a
granddaughter that just eloped. She and her sweetheart, they have
a family. God bless them with a daughter when she
(17:50):
was only seventeen. But he's a beautiful young man. And
he loves my granddaughter so much and they just got married.
Best advice wisdom you could share with a young couple
just starting their journey.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I guide my daughters. You know, we've got four, four children.
They're all grown up, but you know, I just try
to teach them that you got to learn to be
accepting and you know, loving your spouse, you know. And
just I don't know, we just really we are so
(18:29):
much in love yet that you know, I just I
don't know. Well now, you know, since I've been out
a little bit and stuff, people tell me how much
he missed me and how sad he was that I
was gone. But he came to visit me every single day.
He told me that I asked him to stay overnight
at the hospital, but I don't remember that either.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I am glad God sent you such a gentle gentle man.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I wish you could meet him. He is the kindest
and he's so handsome. He's the kind of man, you know,
he does everything for me. He waits emmy. He was
so kind, so tender, and.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm so glad Betty, you made it through that health scare. Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I know, he's very, very protective of me now. But
he actually, you know, he's a full time pastor, but
he also is a chaplain at a hospital three mornings
a week, so he goes around and visits the patients
in the hospital only or if they want a prayer,
then he prays with them and stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Can I say a quick prayer for you, Yes, Father, God.
I thank you Lord for letting Betty get through on
the phone lines tonight. I thank you God for the
gift of love that you've given her and Tim all
these years, almost five decades. Lord, what a gift. I
thank you God for the family that you've built, the children,
(19:50):
the grandchildren now the great grand babies, and all the
memories and all the love and all the joy that
you have brought through these two. Father, I thank you
for Betty, for her life, for saving her life. And Father,
she said she's on the road to recovery. I pray
that you would grant her good health all the days
(20:12):
of her life. Father, All of our days are numbered
before a single one comes to pass. We know that
full well. But God, while she's here, while she and
her husband have these days together, these years together, I
pray she would be fully restored, fully healthy, able to
go and do and see and experience and live life fully.
(20:35):
I pray God you would give her health and strength
and joy and laughter and love. Bless her husband, Bless
his ministry, Bless the people he prays for. Give him
the gift of healing. Lord. So when he's at the
hospital and he prays for someone, Lord, miracles will happen.
Miracles will happen like happen when you were here on earth,
(20:58):
that the blind would see, that the death would hear,
that the lame would walk again and leap again. Father,
I prayed that you would give him that anointing. And
I asked this in your precious and your holy name. Amen.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, thank you, Amen. I love you, Tlila, I really do.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Thank you, sweetheart, God bless you. That call from Betty
was amazing, especially to get that call on the same
night as Talia. A beginning love and a mature, seasoned love,
both matches made by God. Bill reunited with his first
love and a surprise surprise, a surprise package he never
(21:45):
knew about. We are going to talk to him next. Hi, Bill,
this is Delilah. What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yes, ma'am, I've been listening to you for Oh, I
was twelve when I started listening to you. I think
my wife now met her back when I was seventeen,
and he got pregnant and got scared and ran off.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Wait a second, stop right there, Bill, Did you know
she was pregnant? Did you know you had a child
out there for eighteen years?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
No, ma'am? What No, ma'am. I had no clue.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So she just she saw the little plus mark, she
ran and she she left the area. She left the
state where.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
She go that's the state way back when before this
all happened, and she got married down here. I got
married up there, didn't work out, did not work out whatsoever.
When my daughter was eighteen, she wanted to meet me,
so they came up to Massachusetts BOMBI, and all of
(22:53):
a sudden things worked out again. And now we are
fifty five years old, thirteen kids, eleven girls, two boys,
and twenty two grandkids and.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Back together we are now married. How did the first
meeting go? And what in the world did you think
when you saw a grown daughter?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I couldn't even describe it. I'm like, I have a daughter.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Did she call you? Did she contact you on like Facebook?
Or did she show up? At your front door.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
No, she just showed up the front door.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Was your daughter with her at the time or did
that come later?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Nope, daughter was with her at that time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And when you looked at her daughter, did you see
a mini you? Or does she look more like mom?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Say my same nose, same yes?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And did you look at her and go wait a minute,
wait a minute, that's a female me? Where did this
come from?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
He?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Exactly. It was a very shocking experience.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So was your other wife out of the picture this
time or was she on her way out?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
So she was out of the picture at that time.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So you were single, ready to mingle. And now there
is your ex girlfriend and your daughter standing on your
front porch. Yes, wow, yes, How many children do you have?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Now? We have eleven kids?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
No, I got that. But how many were yours with
another woman?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I have one and we've adopted all the rest?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
God bless you. So you had one child besides your
daughter that you just found out about, or is that
the one?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
So I have two?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So you have two bio children, one with her, one
with someone else. She had four bio children with somebody else. Yes,
so you had six biological children, and then together you
have adopted.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
How many more We've adopted seven more.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And twenty two grandkids. How many still live at home?
How many children are under your roof?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You have nobody living under our roof.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They're all grown and gone and bringing home grand babies
every other day.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yep. Wow, they all have good lives. I've told them
hard lessons and they all have good lives.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Well, what you're gonna have to send me? You can
go to my Facebook page and or just send it
to d at Delilah dot com. You're going to have
to send me a family picture.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Oh, yes, we can do that, because this.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Is too sweet. All right, I'm going to play a
sweet song for you and your whole family. Bill, thank
you for calling.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You're welcome, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I appreciate you, and I appreciate the fact that you
and your wife, when you got back together, decided to
share the love and adopt children.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I appreciate what you do.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You have a great night, honey. Thank you, Thank you.
So it's fun. It's wonderful when God literally puts the
love of your life in front of you when you
are young. Often we can miss that and go a
different path. Bill and his girls found their way back
to one another. I know the way we meet people
(26:19):
has become modern technology apps, text, Facebook, dating apps mostly,
but never underestimate God. He might put the love of
your life right in front of you at the supermarket,
maybe in a Bible study, maybe in art class, maybe
(26:40):
when you're covered in dog hair at the gym. You
never know. Just trust, pray and believe. Thank you for
spending this time with me, and have a little faith.
Find me on the radio, find me every single night
and join me once again and for my next episode
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