October 2, 2025 • 16 mins
Today’s episode really touches my heart. It is a reminder to appreciate all that we have in this country. It is a reminder to put our own problems into perspective…
My solo call today is from a humble man who is not angry, is not bitter, is not looking for anything but prayer for his family trapped in a war torn country.
Please remember and care about those who suffer….
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little faith with
Delilah where we talk about our faith and we talk
about what role faith plays in our lives. It's not
for me, and I'm just talking about me. But for me,
my faith is not something that I put on a shelf,
(00:22):
put in a box on a shelf, and take it
down on a Sunday morning or when it's convenient. It's
not something that I turn to in crisis because I
need God to intervene and be my Genie in a bottle.
My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
(00:43):
It's why I live my life the way I do.
It's why I adopted special needs children. And I say
that because it is. It's not. It doesn't compel me
to do that so that I can earn my way
into Heaven. My faith gives me the strength and the
tools that I need to parent special needs children, even
(01:07):
into my sixties.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
And as I watch the world grow increasingly dark and
increasingly violent, I lean on my faith and on the
mercy of God all the more. There is so much
(01:31):
violence going on in and around the world, and it
feels like the darkness is growing every single day. We
are inundated, and it could be just because social media.
Mass media makes drama and heartache more accessible. The visuals
(01:52):
are so realistic, and they're in our faces, They're in
our living rooms, they're at our dining tables, they're in
our pockets and our device. Our grandparents, my grandparents went
through World War Two. My grandpa served in World War Two.
But I guarantee you my grandmother, who is in America,
had no clue the atrocities that my grandpa was going
(02:16):
through to the degree that he did, because there were
no cameras there filming and putting it on the evening news.
The evil exists, and it is here in our neighborhoods.
Every time you see another mass shooting event, you get
(02:39):
a little more numb and a little more numb to
the atrocities of violence. Where I live, we are still
lucky enough to worry about are the kids going to
get on the bus, are they going to make it
to school on time? Am I going to make a
great dinner tonight? Or as it left dovers. But in
(03:02):
some parts of the world, folks are just worried about
getting their kids to and from school alive. Some are
worried because their kids can't go to school. In some
places in the world right now, children are attending school
in bunkers, underground, in bunkers to learn to read and write.
(03:25):
In some places in the world, kids have no food,
they have no light, They're losing hope. And if you're
like me, you probably feel pretty helpless to do anything
about it, pretty helpless to make a difference. But you're
not powerless. You have the power of prayer. That is
(03:50):
a powerful tool to send thoughts and prayers to say, God,
please intervene, please help, please be there, Please be a
light in the darkness, Please bring about miracles. You don't
have to be politically motivated or inclined to care about children,
(04:13):
to care about the women and men that are desperately
trying to survive. I would encourage you to drop your
notion of a person saving us. Drop the idea that
a political party or a political figure a king is
(04:33):
going to rise up and everything is going to be fine.
God is the only one who can do that. I
have a call from a gentleman named Max that I
want to share with you. On this episode of Have
a Little Faith he is very much caught up in
the violence and the lack of understanding in his home country.
(04:57):
He's not blaming. He is begging for his family and friends,
his relatives, his loved ones, to be safe, to be okay.
And I think we can all understand that. As a
mom who has adopted children whose parents fled a horrific
(05:19):
civil war in Liberia, West Africa, I have heard first
hand accounts of the atrocities of war and that trauma
has affected my children. I'd like you to meet Max
and hear his story.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Hi, my name is Max.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Hi'm Max. Why do you sound so stressed.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I'm always stressed, to be honest, I'm very glad that
I've finally made it through. And I wanted to say
that I love your show and very much and thank
you for being And I don't want to take a
lot of time.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Max, do me a favor. Take a deep breath, leave
the stress, leave the stress wherever you want to lay
it down. But you're in no rush. I'm in no rush.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yes, I understand, but I also think that there's so
many people who want to reach out, you know, and
talk to you, and I just don't want to be
in the way, just want to be quick?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Wow, So do you feel that intrusive always with other people,
like you're a bother?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, good, because I love my job and I love
talking to people, and I don't like being rushed when
I'm in the middle of a project or the middle
of doing something. So why would I want to rush you?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, thank you for that. And the reason why I
decided to call in addition to talking to you, of course,
is because I wanted to ask you to put on
the song called The Hanging Tree by Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Such a sad song, such a very sad, very dark song.
Why do we want to hear this tragic song?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, to be honest, I would like to dedicate that
song to all those who have lost their lives in
the battlefield and specifically in Ukraine, and for that matter,
to anyone who actually lost their life in the battlefheld
(07:41):
while resisting the tyranny.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think that applies to just about every square foot
of this planet. Yep has faced tyranny and slaughters and
horrific genocides forever.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, at least for now. I would like to dedicate
that song to all those people who find it somehow
in themselves, you know, to stand up and fight and
not to give up, regardless of how big the force
is opposing them.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the hardest battle you've ever had to fight?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Philosophically, I say the hardest battle is always fighting yourself,
you know, facing yourself, if we'll say in practice, I
guess the hardest one was when I was losing somewhere,
when I couldn't do anything to help. When you know,
(08:48):
you see a person just fading in front of you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's a pretty halicious battle to have to fight.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Play that song. I will say a prayer for folks
in Ukraine, folks everywhere, folks right here, because who knows
what the future holds, but it's looking a little terrifying
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, I'm sorry if I so, how long have you
been here?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm here for nine years so far. But I have
my family back there and many friends and doing what
I can, sending money and helping in some other ways,
because I'm sure there'll be folks who would say, hey,
if you care so much, why are you're not in
the battlefield? Well, because not everyone's a built to actually fight,
(09:41):
but any help is helping. Anything that can be done.
Is one more brick in the wall that stands between
the freedom and the evil. So and if anyone can
do you know that matters?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And do you have family and friends here that you
can lean on when you're feeling exhausted and weary.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I have my family here, yes, but my mom and
my brother and his family and some other relatives and
many of the friends are still there. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So you go to sleep with the very real reality
that you may not speak to them again tomorrow ever.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Say today. For a little over three years now, and
every time the folly dinks, you never know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know, we're so spoiled. Except for those of us
that have family or friends in the military serving in
the military, we have forgotten what that's like. You know,
our grandparents knew my grandpa served in World War Two.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But oh yeah, that's a good thing. One of my
friends told me, like, why do you especially when the
world just started and I was here and he was there,
and I said, you know, it's so weird to see
people just going about their day. And he said, while
being there, he said, what do you expect them to do?
They live their lives And that's good, that's really great.
(11:20):
That they don't have to go through that. They don't
see it, they don't hear it, they don't have you know,
their children recognizing what exactly is flying just by the
sound of it, whether it's a drone or a missile,
and what kind of missile they can tell now. And
he said, that's good. Let them live their lives. You know,
(11:43):
they're happy, and that's good. And that's when I realized,
and yeah, I mean, it's our tragedy. It's not like
it's someone else's tragedy, right, I mean in any other country,
because people well, they can't care, but they don't have
to think about it all the time. It's not their job.
They have their own lives and they have to live
(12:03):
them to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Amen. I have three children. I have six children total
that are adopted out of Africa, but several of them,
three of them have a mother, that have mothers that
escaped to civil war in Liberia and everybody in their
(12:25):
village was slaughtered, exterminated except for a couple of people.
A couple of children escaped and you know, they were seven, eight,
nine years old when they witnessed their whole village being exterminated.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's a lot imaginable, to be honest, it's so hard
to imagine that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And they made it on foot to Ghana, West Africa,
and they made it to a refugee camp and they survived,
but they were not capable of parents the children that
they gave birth to, and so I have adopted some
of them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Very very nice of you, and I can't imagine what
they had to see. And it's unforgettable, pretty much like
you know, if anywhere in the world, and I can
speak about Ukraine because I know that in the eastern part,
which is closer to Russia, children are actually studying underground.
(13:27):
They've built schools there for them and they study underground
so they don't see the light, you know, the sunlight.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I mean, so they don't have to be bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, yeah, So they stayed underground and because that area
there is being bombarded like like hell on a daily basis.
Just the other night there were almost a little over
five hundred drones and a little close to fifty miss
(14:00):
overnight all over your crime. And that's like a normal
Sunday or Monday, whatever does really matter?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Wow? Can I say a prayer with you?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Father God? I thank you Lord for allowing Max to
get through on the phone lines tonight. I thank you
God for his generous, kind, generous spirit. Lord. I pray
for his family. I pray for his friends. I pray
for his country. I pray for his loved ones. We
stand up against tyranny, control, manipulation everywhere, everywhere, the sins
(14:43):
that are being committed, the lives that are being destroyed,
and the children that are being terrified and are suffering
and hurting and dying everywhere. Father, God, come quick, Marianatha.
We need you. We need your peace, the peace that
(15:04):
surpasses all understanding. I pray God that you would shelter
us and blanket us with that peace in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Amen, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What a gentle man you are. I wish I could
give you a big hug.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, I would love that, and thank you. I just
try to be me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You know you're a good man. So we keep praying
and believing. Yes, by all names, all right, I'll be
in touch. God, bless you, honey, Thank you, Thank you man.
Thank you Max for your vulnerability, but mostly your ability
to remain loving and kind throughout all of this. I
(15:48):
am going to check in with you. Often, but I
want you to know that you and your family will
be in my daily prayers because love matters. Loving people,
reaching out, being generous, being kind, that matters. It matters
when you go above and beyond in unselfish love. That
(16:11):
is my best best words of advice for you tonight.
Thank you for giving me your time today. I do
not take that for granted. Call me this evening, any
evening Monday through Friday, and we will talk about it
and we will pray about it. One eight eight, eight, six,
three three five four five two, Follow and subscribe right
(16:34):
now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you
listen to your podcast. I will be back next week.
Until then, remember to have a little faith, be love,
Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little faith with
Delilah where we talk about our faith and we talk
about what role faith plays in our lives. It's not
for me, and I'm just talking about me. But for me,
my faith is not something that I put on a shelf,
(00:22):
put in a box on a shelf, and take it
down on a Sunday morning or when it's convenient. It's
not something that I turn to in crisis because I
need God to intervene and be my Genie in a bottle.
My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
(00:43):
It's why I live my life the way I do.
It's why I adopted special needs children. And I say
that because it is. It's not. It doesn't compel me
to do that so that I can earn my way
into Heaven. My faith gives me the strength and the
tools that I need to parent special needs children, even
(01:07):
into my sixties.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
And as I watch the world grow increasingly dark and
increasingly violent, I lean on my faith and on the
mercy of God all the more. There is so much
(01:31):
violence going on in and around the world, and it
feels like the darkness is growing every single day. We
are inundated, and it could be just because social media.
Mass media makes drama and heartache more accessible. The visuals
(01:52):
are so realistic, and they're in our faces, They're in
our living rooms, they're at our dining tables, they're in
our pockets and our device. Our grandparents, my grandparents went
through World War Two. My grandpa served in World War Two.
But I guarantee you my grandmother, who is in America,
had no clue the atrocities that my grandpa was going
(02:16):
through to the degree that he did, because there were
no cameras there filming and putting it on the evening news.
The evil exists, and it is here in our neighborhoods.
Every time you see another mass shooting event, you get
(02:39):
a little more numb and a little more numb to
the atrocities of violence. Where I live, we are still
lucky enough to worry about are the kids going to
get on the bus, are they going to make it
to school on time? Am I going to make a
great dinner tonight? Or as it left dovers. But in
(03:02):
some parts of the world, folks are just worried about
getting their kids to and from school alive. Some are
worried because their kids can't go to school. In some
places in the world right now, children are attending school
in bunkers, underground, in bunkers to learn to read and write.
(03:25):
In some places in the world, kids have no food,
they have no light, They're losing hope. And if you're
like me, you probably feel pretty helpless to do anything
about it, pretty helpless to make a difference. But you're
not powerless. You have the power of prayer. That is
(03:50):
a powerful tool to send thoughts and prayers to say, God,
please intervene, please help, please be there, Please be a
light in the darkness, Please bring about miracles. You don't
have to be politically motivated or inclined to care about children,
(04:13):
to care about the women and men that are desperately
trying to survive. I would encourage you to drop your
notion of a person saving us. Drop the idea that
a political party or a political figure a king is
(04:33):
going to rise up and everything is going to be fine.
God is the only one who can do that. I
have a call from a gentleman named Max that I
want to share with you. On this episode of Have
a Little Faith he is very much caught up in
the violence and the lack of understanding in his home country.
(04:57):
He's not blaming. He is begging for his family and friends,
his relatives, his loved ones, to be safe, to be okay.
And I think we can all understand that. As a
mom who has adopted children whose parents fled a horrific
(05:19):
civil war in Liberia, West Africa, I have heard first
hand accounts of the atrocities of war and that trauma
has affected my children. I'd like you to meet Max
and hear his story.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Hi, my name is Max.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Hi'm Max. Why do you sound so stressed.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I'm always stressed, to be honest, I'm very glad that
I've finally made it through. And I wanted to say
that I love your show and very much and thank
you for being And I don't want to take a
lot of time.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Max, do me a favor. Take a deep breath, leave
the stress, leave the stress wherever you want to lay
it down. But you're in no rush. I'm in no rush.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yes, I understand, but I also think that there's so
many people who want to reach out, you know, and
talk to you, and I just don't want to be
in the way, just want to be quick?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Wow, So do you feel that intrusive always with other people,
like you're a bother?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, good, because I love my job and I love
talking to people, and I don't like being rushed when
I'm in the middle of a project or the middle
of doing something. So why would I want to rush you?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, thank you for that. And the reason why I
decided to call in addition to talking to you, of course,
is because I wanted to ask you to put on
the song called The Hanging Tree by Jennifer Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Such a sad song, such a very sad, very dark song.
Why do we want to hear this tragic song?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, to be honest, I would like to dedicate that
song to all those who have lost their lives in
the battlefield and specifically in Ukraine, and for that matter,
to anyone who actually lost their life in the battlefheld
(07:41):
while resisting the tyranny.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think that applies to just about every square foot
of this planet. Yep has faced tyranny and slaughters and
horrific genocides forever.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, at least for now. I would like to dedicate
that song to all those people who find it somehow
in themselves, you know, to stand up and fight and
not to give up, regardless of how big the force
is opposing them.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the hardest battle you've ever had to fight?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Philosophically, I say the hardest battle is always fighting yourself,
you know, facing yourself, if we'll say in practice, I
guess the hardest one was when I was losing somewhere,
when I couldn't do anything to help. When you know,
(08:48):
you see a person just fading in front of you.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That's a pretty halicious battle to have to fight.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Play that song. I will say a prayer for folks
in Ukraine, folks everywhere, folks right here, because who knows
what the future holds, but it's looking a little terrifying
right now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, I'm sorry if I so, how long have you
been here?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm here for nine years so far. But I have
my family back there and many friends and doing what
I can, sending money and helping in some other ways,
because I'm sure there'll be folks who would say, hey,
if you care so much, why are you're not in
the battlefield? Well, because not everyone's a built to actually fight,
(09:41):
but any help is helping. Anything that can be done.
Is one more brick in the wall that stands between
the freedom and the evil. So and if anyone can
do you know that matters?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And do you have family and friends here that you
can lean on when you're feeling exhausted and weary.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I have my family here, yes, but my mom and
my brother and his family and some other relatives and
many of the friends are still there. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So you go to sleep with the very real reality
that you may not speak to them again tomorrow ever.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Say today. For a little over three years now, and
every time the folly dinks, you never know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You know, we're so spoiled. Except for those of us
that have family or friends in the military serving in
the military, we have forgotten what that's like. You know,
our grandparents knew my grandpa served in World War Two.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But oh yeah, that's a good thing. One of my
friends told me, like, why do you especially when the
world just started and I was here and he was there,
and I said, you know, it's so weird to see
people just going about their day. And he said, while
being there, he said, what do you expect them to do?
They live their lives And that's good, that's really great.
(11:20):
That they don't have to go through that. They don't
see it, they don't hear it, they don't have you know,
their children recognizing what exactly is flying just by the
sound of it, whether it's a drone or a missile,
and what kind of missile they can tell now. And
he said, that's good. Let them live their lives. You know,
(11:43):
they're happy, and that's good. And that's when I realized,
and yeah, I mean, it's our tragedy. It's not like
it's someone else's tragedy, right, I mean in any other country,
because people well, they can't care, but they don't have
to think about it all the time. It's not their job.
They have their own lives and they have to live
(12:03):
them to the fullest.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Amen. I have three children. I have six children total
that are adopted out of Africa, but several of them,
three of them have a mother, that have mothers that
escaped to civil war in Liberia and everybody in their
(12:25):
village was slaughtered, exterminated except for a couple of people.
A couple of children escaped and you know, they were seven, eight,
nine years old when they witnessed their whole village being exterminated.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's a lot imaginable, to be honest, it's so hard
to imagine that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And they made it on foot to Ghana, West Africa,
and they made it to a refugee camp and they survived,
but they were not capable of parents the children that
they gave birth to, and so I have adopted some
of them.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Very very nice of you, and I can't imagine what
they had to see. And it's unforgettable, pretty much like
you know, if anywhere in the world, and I can
speak about Ukraine because I know that in the eastern part,
which is closer to Russia, children are actually studying underground.
(13:27):
They've built schools there for them and they study underground
so they don't see the light, you know, the sunlight.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I mean, so they don't have to be bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, yeah, So they stayed underground and because that area
there is being bombarded like like hell on a daily basis.
Just the other night there were almost a little over
five hundred drones and a little close to fifty miss
(14:00):
overnight all over your crime. And that's like a normal
Sunday or Monday, whatever does really matter?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Wow? Can I say a prayer with you?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Father God? I thank you Lord for allowing Max to
get through on the phone lines tonight. I thank you
God for his generous, kind, generous spirit. Lord. I pray
for his family. I pray for his friends. I pray
for his country. I pray for his loved ones. We
stand up against tyranny, control, manipulation everywhere, everywhere, the sins
(14:43):
that are being committed, the lives that are being destroyed,
and the children that are being terrified and are suffering
and hurting and dying everywhere. Father, God, come quick, Marianatha.
We need you. We need your peace, the peace that
(15:04):
surpasses all understanding. I pray God that you would shelter
us and blanket us with that peace in Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Amen, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
What a gentle man you are. I wish I could
give you a big hug.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, I would love that, and thank you. I just
try to be me.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You know you're a good man. So we keep praying
and believing. Yes, by all names, all right, I'll be
in touch. God, bless you, honey, Thank you, Thank you man.
Thank you Max for your vulnerability, but mostly your ability
to remain loving and kind throughout all of this. I
(15:48):
am going to check in with you. Often, but I
want you to know that you and your family will
be in my daily prayers because love matters. Loving people,
reaching out, being generous, being kind, that matters. It matters
when you go above and beyond in unselfish love. That
(16:11):
is my best best words of advice for you tonight.
Thank you for giving me your time today. I do
not take that for granted. Call me this evening, any
evening Monday through Friday, and we will talk about it
and we will pray about it. One eight eight, eight, six,
three three five four five two, Follow and subscribe right
(16:34):
now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you
listen to your podcast. I will be back next week.
Until then, remember to have a little faith, be love,
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Dateline NBC
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