August 20, 2025 • 33 mins
This episode of “Have A Little Faith” is about taking chances. Taking chances is where growth begins. Have you ever heard that saying that boats are only safe when they’re in the harbor? Boats weren’t built to stay in the harbor, it’s a safe place to rest, but it’s not where a boat belongs. A boat belongs out at sea, it belongs in the water. Its purpose is to sail, is to go out into the unknown and the same is true for you and I. Taking chances is where growth begins. It’s where our faith grows. Stepping out into the unknown without a guarantee is difficult. Be brave and remember that with God at the helm you can do anything.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, my friend, Welcome to my new podcast, Have a
Little Faith with Delilah. I call it my new podcast
even though this is our ninth episode, because it feels
so new and I'm so energized and excited because I
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get to share my faith with you. Do you know
what a big deal that is to me. I have
been fired from radio stations simply for saying things like
God bless you or I'll pray for you on the air.
I have been told to keep my faith to myself.
I have been told that nobody wants to hear Jesus jabber,
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a term coined by one of my old program directors
who despise the fact that I love God, that I
love Jesus, and I love to share that love with
other people. And so the fact that I get to
do a podcast where I get to talk about my faith,
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explore my faith, share my faith, pray for people, pray
with people, you don't understand what a huge thing this is.
I feel like I'm able to be completely and totally
myself and I get to share that excitement with you
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via this podcast. So I am so happy that you
found me, and I hope you tell your friends, anybody
you know who needs a little more faith or needs
to have their faith strength, and I hope they find
us here. Today's podcast is about taking chances. Taking chances
is where growth begins. Have you ever heard the saying
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that boats are only safe when they're in the harbor.
But boats weren't built to stay in the harbor. It's
a safe place to rest, but it's not where a
boat belongs. A boat belongs out at sea. It belongs
in the water. It's what it's meant to do. It's
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the reason a boat was built is to sail, is
to go out into the unknown, and the same is
true for you and I. Taking chances is where growth begins.
It's where our faith grows. It's stepping out into the
unknown without a guarantee. Trusting can be so difficult. I
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know people who have lived let's say, more than one
or two or three or four decades, and yet they
still find trusting an impossible thing to do. They want
to stay in their safe harbor, they want to be
a boat in their safe harbor. But it is required
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no matter where you find yourself in life. And what
I'm talking about is not throwing caution into the wind
like I do and charge downhill on a sled without
a crash helmet. I'm talking about being brave and trusting
in the Lord. Taking chances often does not pay off
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right away. But here's the thing. If you are taking
a chance, believing that God is leading you and asking
you to do it, even if things fall apart, you
are still where you're supposed to be because see, God's
perspective is different than our perspective. For sure. Think about Mary.
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She was a teenager. She was engaged to be married.
She was betrothed, which is kind of like what we
view engagement, but different you're preparing. It was like a
year long period of time where the women learn from
their mothers and their grandmothers and the elder women in
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their community. Is going to be required of her in
the role of maintaining a house, of managing her home,
of being a wife and a mother. And the men
were off building the home that would be theirs, oftentimes
close to his father's homestead. A betrothal was a marriage
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kind of where you were apart, but you couldn't get
out of it easily. You had to go through a divorce.
And here's Mary, a teenager who wakes up to an
angel telling her, by the bye, you're going to carry
the Son of God in your womb, even though you've
never been with a man. You're going to be pregnant,
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and you're gonna raise God. How many people in their
right mind would say yes to that, knowing it could
cost you your life, knowing it would definitely probably cost
her her engagement, her betrothal, her marriage to Joseph, Knowing
she would be ridiculed, knowing she would be put out
of the community. She's like, Okay, God, if this is
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what you think is best, yes, I'm all yours. I
will follow where you lead. And when things fell apart,
when Joseph's like, how can this be? Can you imagine
saying yes to that? But she did? She said yes.
She said yes. She said yes to God. I will
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accept this challenge and I will do what you ask me,
and I will be the best mama I can possibly
be for this baby. Taking chances doesn't always pay off
right away. Things don't always turn out as planned, that's
for sure. I cannot tell you how many times I've
taken a chance on love on children. I've adopted children
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that I believed God was leading me to. Taking chances
doesn't all always, In fact, it rarely in the way
you think that it might. But taking a chance might
lead to the success or the lesson or the growth
that you really needed, maybe the healing that you really needed.
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I can tell you I was in a failed relationship,
a relationship that I thought was going to lead to
marriage and forever, and it didn't. But do you know
what it did do? It healed parts of my heart
that were so broken. I didn't believe I was worthy
of love by a kind and compassionate and competent and
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hard working and gentle man. And in that relationship, I
learned that I was so worthy of that kind of
gentle and kind and nurturing love, and it made me
such a much better person. Sometimes there are parts of
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your heart that need to be healed. Sometimes there are
things you need to learn or places you need to go,
and you can't do that from the safety of the harbor.
You got to leave the harbor and go explore and
take those chances for your confidence to build, for your
wisdom to build. Truly, the biggest risk of all is
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not taking a risk, staying stuck in the same place,
staying safe, never daring to see what could have been.
I know people that live in the same town they
were born in. I know people that live in the
same house that they were born in, unable to leave
the safe harbor and go explore. I know other people
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that have the same house they were born in, but
they have explored the world. They have gone and seen
and done, but they have a safe harbor to come
home to. I think that's the best plan of all.
I want to encourage you in this podcast to trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
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on your own understanding, but in always acknowledge him. If
you trust in God and God is telling you, I
want you to move. I want you to go. I
want you to preach. I want you to go to college.
I want you to give this person a chance. I
want you to adopt. I want you to be a
foster parent. I want you to go to a developing nation.
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I want you to go and try something new. I
want you to switch careers. I want you to be
able to trust that voice within when the Lord is
guiding you and leading you. And I'm going to share
some phone calls today in this podcast from folks who
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are struggling to take a chance up first is a
young man named Casey. He is struggling with taking a
chance on putting his career over the love of his life.
Let's listen to Casey right now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hey, this is Casey. I am just calling. Had kind
of a rough week last week. I just had a
girl that I'm in love with and she decided that
the distance was too much. We live a cross country
and things are great. I think we still love each
other and the first girl I've met that honestly takes
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my breath away. So I just want to give a
shout out to her, and hopefully the distance won't always
see an issue for us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How old are you, Casey?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I am twenty nine, actually, so.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What are the ties that are binding you to where
you are right now instead of letting you go be
with the one you love?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Honestly, not much. I think that that's a possibility for us,
and hopefully you know. The way that we communicated actually
through music, So it's kind of cool that you know,
we actually listen to your show quite a bit and
talk about it, and yeah, I think that I think
that eventually we will come back around. But right now
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we both have some pretty good careers, so we're we're
focused on that for the time being.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, do you want my response to that or do
you just want me to play a song?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know what? I think. I'd love you to respond.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Are you sure because you might not like what I
have to say?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's okay, you say it, let me have it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I heard you say fifty seven seconds ago that she's
the only woman that's ever made you feel this way.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Those were your words.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Maybe she doesn't feel the same. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's scary, and that's that's a big scary if she doesn't.
But if she does, that kind of love is a
gift and it doesn't come around very very often. And
if you've been blessed by God to enjoy that kind
of gift, A career means nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I love my career. I stink and love my career.
I love my career. I love being on the air.
I used to love modeling when I was young, and
you know, thirty pounds thinner. I love my career. But
if I couldn't have my husband, who does live in
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another state, we have a commuter relationship. But if he
said I can't do it, anymore. You got to come
and be with me, I'd say, I'd hang up these
headphones so dang fast and make care your head spin.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I think I'm with you. I'm with you a lot.
I'm totally with you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
If she's using the distance as an excuse to distance herself,
if she's not on the same page as you, if
she doesn't see her future in your eyes, then that's
a sad thing. But if she does go be with your.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Girl, I will, Delilah, I definitely will. I don't believe
it's an excuse. And like I said, we communicate through music,
so like to play a song for her?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And what's her name?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Her name is Laura.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Okay, I need to speak with Laura some night. Tell
her to call me because I gotta. I gotta get
to the bottom of this, I really do. I got
to pry into her business and find out what's keeping
her from you. Because you sound like a are you
as cute as your voices?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Thanks? Thank you. I give me feel better. And I
don't know if I'm blushy.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you're as good looking as your voice sounds and
as nice as you are, she could being the knucklehead
here not moving having on earth to be with you.
I don't know which one of y'all is being a knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I don't know. I can't. I mean, yeah, maybe I
should get into radio and love my job and focus
on that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So what do you do? What's this career that's keeping you?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So I work in the technology field. It's just a
lucrative career for me. I kind of came from a
small town, middle of nowhere, and so now I live
the big city and it's just a lucrative career for me.
And same with her, both kind of similar backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Guess what money means nothing except the good that you
can do with it. Money means absolutely nothing except the
good that you can do with it to make life
better for others.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I know you're so right. I totally would. I would
give it. I would give it up. I think I
just needed somebody to say it in the right words.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
If you came to my house, Casey, and you saw
the way I live, you would have no clue that
I ever made any money.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now, I'm a bigger fan.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Because I learned long ago. First Off, I was blessed
that I didn't make a lot of money until I
was older, But The only value money has is how
it can improve the life of yourself and others around you.
And if you have your basic needs met, if you've
got food, water, shelter, that's it. That's all you need.
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Everything else is just stuff, and stuff means nothing. It
means nothing. What kind of couch you set on means nothing.
I work in Africa. I go twice a year, sometimes
three times a year. They don't have couches, they don't
have houses, they don't have cars, they don't have food
or water. So the money that I make means everything
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to me because it can provide food and water and
shelter for kids. But once my basic needs are met,
I need nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah. And the most basic need also complicated need, but
most basic need is love.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah. And if you've got that, figure out how the
heck to be with your.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Woman, babe. If need the right push, I appreciate that. Delilah.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm going to play your song for you, and I'm
going to say a prayer for you. Lord, God, Heavenly Father,
Precious Jesus, guide Casey into the right direction. Guide him, Lord,
open the doors that need to be open, and close
the doors that you want closed. Show him that he
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can get a job in another state. He's hesitant because
he's not entirely sure that his partner feels the same.
Show him your plan, God, make it so clear, so obvious.
There will be no questions no matter what happens in life. Casey,
when you seek the Lord, when you ask for him
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to direct you, you will have peace. When he does that.
When God directs you and he moves mountains for you,
you will have peace. Amen. Up next, we have Brittany
who's dealing with a long distance marriage. Her husband needs
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to take a job out of state to support their family,
and we're going to talk about that. Because I have
a little experience with that. I think there's some things
Brittany can do to be with him. I think she
needs to be creative. I think Brittany needs to take
some chances. I'm going to share that conversation now. Hi, Brittany,
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welcome aboard. What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm not sure, Like I'll just have you pick something
for me. My husband just started a new job and
he's pretty much permanently going to be working out of
town and only coming back home every now and then.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And my youngest daughter is starting preschool.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
This year, and I'm just not ready to come home
to a completely empty, silent house.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why can't you move with him?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Because he's going to be in different places.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So he'll be in Central Florida right now, and then
in a couple months he'll be in North Carolina, and
so he's kind of just going to be all over
the place. So it's best for me to just stay
here with the kids. And while they're going the school,
he's all around the place working.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What does he do that he moves so much.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He is a solar contractor and he just got a
job doing commercial solar installation, so it's going to be
a lot of big projects all over the southeast part
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well as somebody who is living with my husband for
the first time. In our nineteen years together, we enjoyed
long distance marriage. It worked for us, but we're at
different places in our life. You know, his kids were
grown and gone, and I was still adopting kids, and
he wasn't really interested in going to cub Scout meetings.
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So it worked for us all those years, and now
it's very hard getting used to being in the same house.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, well, my husband and I we've been together for
fifteen years. We're about to celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary.
And we met when I was sixteen and he was seventeen,
and we haven't left each other ever since. So this
is like a huge change for us because we're each
other's best friend and alone time for us means alone
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time with each other because like we are like attached
to each other. So this is a very big deal
for us to be separated like this.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I think you need to get a motor home and
make it an adventure.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, that's kind of that's the long term goal. And
we were going to try out homeschooling and just kind
of ride around together. And eventually when he becomes an
electrician and all of that, we're hoping that we can
just come back to the house and be stable again
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and he can just get a good job back in town.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But for now, it's going to be him.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
If I were young and I was that connected to
a hobby, I would get a motor home.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, that's part of our plan.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, whatever you end up doing, if you're a part
and commuting on weekends or whatever, I will be here
for you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, thank you, you have a great night.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Are you struggling because a situation is not playing out
the way you had hoped. A relationship or I don't know,
an application to a college or a job. Things are
not going according to your script. You had it written
out in your head, you had it scripted out, you
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had it planned out, and now it's just not working out.
H I hate it when other people don't follow my script.
In just a moment, I'm going to talk with a
young woman who hast to say goodbye to someone who
unfortunately is planning to be a doctor, and he's practicing
by carving her heart out of her chest with his leaving.
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I'm gonna try to find some words of hope for her.
Coming up next, Hi, beca, what can I do for
you tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I am Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm thinking about a boy.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
He's we've known each other since high school, but he's
going off to his residency to be a doctor. He
doesn't want a long distance relationship, and I get it,
but also I'm sad.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Because it's finally linking up for us. But yeah, he's
going after his three So if you could play a.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Song, a song that says fine, pursue your dreams, just
don't even think about me. Here with a broken heart,
missing you, mister doctor to be literally like oh go,
like go him, but I'm gonna miss him?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh him?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But did you have to take my heart out of
my chest before you laughed?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
How old are you and how old is he?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm twenty three and he's twenty five, so.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That's plenty old enough to navigate a long distance relationship.
You know, if you were seventeen eighteen, I would say, yeah,
go live, go have fun, don't try to stay tied down.
But you guys are young adults. But I guess it's
really not up to you. Huh. If he said don't
want to do the long distance thing, too bad for him.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That's what I'm trying to tell myself is too bad.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So said, too bad for him. He's missing out on
the sweet lady, thank you Doilah. As much as you
care for him, and he's not the right one, imagine
how happy you'll be when God sends the right one
your way.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I got to keep his plan and check because my
plans don't matter when it comes to his.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, they matter, but they're not going to work out
if they're not in line with his will. Even if
you get your way, there have been times God and said, Okay,
have it your way to me, and he says, just
let me know how that works out. And guess what,
it never works out. Well, no it doesn't. So trust him,
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trust him, trust him.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Get the same and thank you, Becca.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Becca, Becca, Becca, This man is not willing to take
a chance on you or to invest in you for
the long haul. Let me tell you something about that.
It's a gift. It doesn't feel like it or look
like it right now, but it is a gift. When
someone doesn't value you enough to plan a future with you,
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let them go, Let them walk out the door. Thank
the Lord for that. Do not ever beg somebody to stay.
If they want to go, let them go, Let them
go with a blessing, and make room in your life
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for the person who sees your value and will do
anything to make that work. That's my best best words
of advice for you, Becca, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I hear from a lot of folks who have reconciled
with someone from their past, those wonderful sweetheart stories. We
dated in junior high, we dated in high school, and
then folks go their separate ways. Life happens, and sometimes
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they find their way back to each other, and just
a moment, we are going to hear from a listener
who found her way back to somebody that she might
have had love crush on back in the day, but
daddy wasn't having any part of it given their age difference.
We're going to find out how that is going today.
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Stick around for that and so much more. Hi, Megan, Welcome.
What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I was wondering if you could dedicate a song to
my better half for me?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who is your better half and what makes them better?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He and his name is Brandon, and we've been together
for about fourteen months now, but we were old high
school streethearts and ended up separating over time, and twenty five.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Years later we got back together.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
How did you find your way back to each other
after a quarter of a century.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I think it was God's plan, a little bit of
his mama and my daddy knowing what they need to.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Do to put us back together.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Okay, well that's very romantical and very sweet, but practically
what happened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
I went through a divorce after twenty years and he
just asked hit me.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Up on Facebook one day.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Ah ah, so social media, and he's like, hey, hey,
I remember you. Do you remember me, yes, ra'am? And
you said, as a matter of fact, I do, yes, ma'am.
So what grade were you in when you were dating.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
We were in our teens. He was seventeen and I
was fourteen. So of course back then that's like a
ten year gap.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's a big no no with the mom and dad. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Mom said no, and we went our separate ways and
twenty five years later made our way back to each other.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
What was your mascot when you were in high school?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The Greyhounds?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The Greyhounds. Did Brandon run fast back then from you?
Or he's running fast to you?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
If he ran to me really fast, you probably.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Ran fast away from you when your father found out
he was seventeen, Yes, ma'am. My daddy did not appreciate
when I would be talking to somebody and he would
he found out one guy was a fireman. He's like,
how can he be a fireman when he's in high school?
And I'm like, uh about that? That did not go
over well with dad.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No, my dad books a fireman too.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I will play a song for you, and the one
that you have reconciled with Call me back in a
few months and let me know how it's going. Yes,
ma'am Meghan, I am so glad you were willing to
take this chance at another try with your guy, with
your man. Listening to your story only reaffirms for me
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that God doesn't make mistakes. You are always meant to
be with him. The fact that both of your parents
confirmed that from heaven is so sweet. What a great confirmation. Megan.
Thank you for sharing your story. You have a wonderful night.
Thank you for calling You're true do Islah?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
In just a moment, we're going to talk with a
listener who thought she was calling a locksmith to change
the keys to sell her house. Little did she realize
he would end up unlocking her heart. He had the key,
and now she's missing him. We're going to play a
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song to keep their hearts locked together across the miles
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Hi, Delailah, this is Lisa.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Are you in your car? Are you driving and listening
to the radio? Now?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I'm homes in my bedroom listening to the radio and
miss my.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Boyfriend, missing your honey. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And when I first met him? I'm born on seven
months ago. It's like thought, send him to me, and
we see each other and talk to each other every
day on the phone. But I haven't seen him in
two months, so I miss him right now and I'm
hoping to see him soon.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So seven months long distance relationship, And how's it going?
Scale of one to ten? How is the How much
joy is Eric bringing and how much sadness? And missing him?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
He brings me a lot of joy and I miss
him a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And do you have anchors in your life keeping you
tied to wherever you are right now?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
I had to take care of some situations where I
am now. Yes, but I have got it all finished
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So you don't have children in school, you don't have
a job, you can't leave.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
No, it's just I had to sell a house, so
I got that taken care of now and now I
can leave again. I just miss him and I want
to go up there.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So, Lisa, you realize you're talking to a woman who
had a long distance marriage for the last fifteen years. No,
my husband and I lived in different states until September.
The only time we've lived together was during COVID, So
I have empathy for you, and I know how hard
it is when you're missing someone, but I also know
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you're going to be just fine.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Thank you, Dahliah.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So where did you meet?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
He used my locksmith.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
How did you need a locksmith? What circumstances brought him
into your life?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Well, I had to change the locks at the house
that I sold. I had to change the locks, so
I had to call a locksmith, and I thought I
was I called his brother and ended up being Eric him. Oh,
I met Eric instead, and Eric has been the love
of my life since then.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So he not only changed the locks, he unlocked your heart.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well wherever you end up, I pray that it is soon,
because I hear the longing in your voices driving you crazy.
And I will play a song to keep those hearts,
that heart that he opened, that he had the key
to that, I'll play a song to keep your hearts connected.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Thank you so much, Dahliah.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Lisa, I am so excited that you're taking a chance
to be with the man that literally and figuratively unlocked
your heart. You are brave, and I am praying for
both of you. I opened this podcast and talked about
taking chances, having the willingness to leave your safe harbor.
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What is your safe harbor? What is the place that
you don't want to leave, You don't want to take
a risk? Is it on on love? Is it you're
unwilling to have your heart broken again? I think for
most adults, most people over the age of twenty five,
we are unwilling to invest so much energy into a
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relationship only to have it crumble, only to be left
broken and aching and wondering what went wrong? I gave
my all. I trusted, I believed, I gave my all.
How how did I end up giving my all to
somebody who can walk away like that? Maybe you're unwilling
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to leave your safe harbor and take a new job.
Maybe you're miserable in your job and you so want out,
but you think I need this payjack, and you can't
see that there's a million other jobs out there. Maybe
it's on a direction that the Lord is encouraging in
your life. Maybe God is calling you to sing, to preach,
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to lead worship, to go to another country. I don't
know what your safe harbor is that you're unwilling to leave.
I don't know what that safe harbor is, but I
promise you. If God is leading you, it's going to
be okay. Might be rough, might be uncomfortable. God's not
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really concerned with our comfort. It's not I've learned that
over the years. He isn't concerned with my comfort. He's
concerned with my eternal salvation and the quality of my character.
God is concerned with my eternal salvation that I will
spend eternity with Him in heaven. And he's concerned with
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the quality of my character. Am I developing as a
human being and being the best person I can possibly
be and shining His light and his love in a
dark and dying world. In order to do that, I
gotta be a little uncomfortable. I got to go outside
of my comfort zone and shine that light. And so
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do you something to think about. I encourage you to
have a little faith and I will see you next time.
Lord bless you.
Hello, my friend, Welcome to my new podcast, Have a
Little Faith with Delilah. I call it my new podcast
even though this is our ninth episode, because it feels
so new and I'm so energized and excited because I
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get to share my faith with you. Do you know
what a big deal that is to me. I have
been fired from radio stations simply for saying things like
God bless you or I'll pray for you on the air.
I have been told to keep my faith to myself.
I have been told that nobody wants to hear Jesus jabber,
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a term coined by one of my old program directors
who despise the fact that I love God, that I
love Jesus, and I love to share that love with
other people. And so the fact that I get to
do a podcast where I get to talk about my faith,
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explore my faith, share my faith, pray for people, pray
with people, you don't understand what a huge thing this is.
I feel like I'm able to be completely and totally
myself and I get to share that excitement with you
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via this podcast. So I am so happy that you
found me, and I hope you tell your friends, anybody
you know who needs a little more faith or needs
to have their faith strength, and I hope they find
us here. Today's podcast is about taking chances. Taking chances
is where growth begins. Have you ever heard the saying
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that boats are only safe when they're in the harbor.
But boats weren't built to stay in the harbor. It's
a safe place to rest, but it's not where a
boat belongs. A boat belongs out at sea. It belongs
in the water. It's what it's meant to do. It's
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the reason a boat was built is to sail, is
to go out into the unknown, and the same is
true for you and I. Taking chances is where growth begins.
It's where our faith grows. It's stepping out into the
unknown without a guarantee. Trusting can be so difficult. I
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know people who have lived let's say, more than one
or two or three or four decades, and yet they
still find trusting an impossible thing to do. They want
to stay in their safe harbor, they want to be
a boat in their safe harbor. But it is required
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no matter where you find yourself in life. And what
I'm talking about is not throwing caution into the wind
like I do and charge downhill on a sled without
a crash helmet. I'm talking about being brave and trusting
in the Lord. Taking chances often does not pay off
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right away. But here's the thing. If you are taking
a chance, believing that God is leading you and asking
you to do it, even if things fall apart, you
are still where you're supposed to be because see, God's
perspective is different than our perspective. For sure. Think about Mary.
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She was a teenager. She was engaged to be married.
She was betrothed, which is kind of like what we
view engagement, but different you're preparing. It was like a
year long period of time where the women learn from
their mothers and their grandmothers and the elder women in
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their community. Is going to be required of her in
the role of maintaining a house, of managing her home,
of being a wife and a mother. And the men
were off building the home that would be theirs, oftentimes
close to his father's homestead. A betrothal was a marriage
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kind of where you were apart, but you couldn't get
out of it easily. You had to go through a divorce.
And here's Mary, a teenager who wakes up to an
angel telling her, by the bye, you're going to carry
the Son of God in your womb, even though you've
never been with a man. You're going to be pregnant,
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and you're gonna raise God. How many people in their
right mind would say yes to that, knowing it could
cost you your life, knowing it would definitely probably cost
her her engagement, her betrothal, her marriage to Joseph, Knowing
she would be ridiculed, knowing she would be put out
of the community. She's like, Okay, God, if this is
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what you think is best, yes, I'm all yours. I
will follow where you lead. And when things fell apart,
when Joseph's like, how can this be? Can you imagine
saying yes to that? But she did? She said yes.
She said yes. She said yes to God. I will
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accept this challenge and I will do what you ask me,
and I will be the best mama I can possibly
be for this baby. Taking chances doesn't always pay off
right away. Things don't always turn out as planned, that's
for sure. I cannot tell you how many times I've
taken a chance on love on children. I've adopted children
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that I believed God was leading me to. Taking chances
doesn't all always, In fact, it rarely in the way
you think that it might. But taking a chance might
lead to the success or the lesson or the growth
that you really needed, maybe the healing that you really needed.
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I can tell you I was in a failed relationship,
a relationship that I thought was going to lead to
marriage and forever, and it didn't. But do you know
what it did do? It healed parts of my heart
that were so broken. I didn't believe I was worthy
of love by a kind and compassionate and competent and
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hard working and gentle man. And in that relationship, I
learned that I was so worthy of that kind of
gentle and kind and nurturing love, and it made me
such a much better person. Sometimes there are parts of
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your heart that need to be healed. Sometimes there are
things you need to learn or places you need to go,
and you can't do that from the safety of the harbor.
You got to leave the harbor and go explore and
take those chances for your confidence to build, for your
wisdom to build. Truly, the biggest risk of all is
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not taking a risk, staying stuck in the same place,
staying safe, never daring to see what could have been.
I know people that live in the same town they
were born in. I know people that live in the
same house that they were born in, unable to leave
the safe harbor and go explore. I know other people
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that have the same house they were born in, but
they have explored the world. They have gone and seen
and done, but they have a safe harbor to come
home to. I think that's the best plan of all.
I want to encourage you in this podcast to trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not
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on your own understanding, but in always acknowledge him. If
you trust in God and God is telling you, I
want you to move. I want you to go. I
want you to preach. I want you to go to college.
I want you to give this person a chance. I
want you to adopt. I want you to be a
foster parent. I want you to go to a developing nation.
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I want you to go and try something new. I
want you to switch careers. I want you to be
able to trust that voice within when the Lord is
guiding you and leading you. And I'm going to share
some phone calls today in this podcast from folks who
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are struggling to take a chance up first is a
young man named Casey. He is struggling with taking a
chance on putting his career over the love of his life.
Let's listen to Casey right now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Hey, this is Casey. I am just calling. Had kind
of a rough week last week. I just had a
girl that I'm in love with and she decided that
the distance was too much. We live a cross country
and things are great. I think we still love each
other and the first girl I've met that honestly takes
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my breath away. So I just want to give a
shout out to her, and hopefully the distance won't always
see an issue for us.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How old are you, Casey?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I am twenty nine, actually, so.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What are the ties that are binding you to where
you are right now instead of letting you go be
with the one you love?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Honestly, not much. I think that that's a possibility for us,
and hopefully you know. The way that we communicated actually
through music, So it's kind of cool that you know,
we actually listen to your show quite a bit and
talk about it, and yeah, I think that I think
that eventually we will come back around. But right now
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we both have some pretty good careers, so we're we're
focused on that for the time being.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Okay, do you want my response to that or do
you just want me to play a song?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know what? I think. I'd love you to respond.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Are you sure because you might not like what I
have to say?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's okay, you say it, let me have it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I heard you say fifty seven seconds ago that she's
the only woman that's ever made you feel this way.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Those were your words.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Maybe she doesn't feel the same. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's scary, and that's that's a big scary if she doesn't.
But if she does, that kind of love is a
gift and it doesn't come around very very often. And
if you've been blessed by God to enjoy that kind
of gift, A career means nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I love my career. I stink and love my career.
I love my career. I love being on the air.
I used to love modeling when I was young, and
you know, thirty pounds thinner. I love my career. But
if I couldn't have my husband, who does live in
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another state, we have a commuter relationship. But if he
said I can't do it, anymore. You got to come
and be with me, I'd say, I'd hang up these
headphones so dang fast and make care your head spin.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I think I'm with you. I'm with you a lot.
I'm totally with you.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
If she's using the distance as an excuse to distance herself,
if she's not on the same page as you, if
she doesn't see her future in your eyes, then that's
a sad thing. But if she does go be with your.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Girl, I will, Delilah, I definitely will. I don't believe
it's an excuse. And like I said, we communicate through music,
so like to play a song for her?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And what's her name?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Her name is Laura.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Okay, I need to speak with Laura some night. Tell
her to call me because I gotta. I gotta get
to the bottom of this, I really do. I got
to pry into her business and find out what's keeping
her from you. Because you sound like a are you
as cute as your voices?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Thanks? Thank you. I give me feel better. And I
don't know if I'm blushy.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
If you're as good looking as your voice sounds and
as nice as you are, she could being the knucklehead
here not moving having on earth to be with you.
I don't know which one of y'all is being a knucklehead.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I don't know. I can't. I mean, yeah, maybe I
should get into radio and love my job and focus
on that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So what do you do? What's this career that's keeping you?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So I work in the technology field. It's just a
lucrative career for me. I kind of came from a
small town, middle of nowhere, and so now I live
the big city and it's just a lucrative career for me.
And same with her, both kind of similar backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Guess what money means nothing except the good that you
can do with it. Money means absolutely nothing except the
good that you can do with it to make life
better for others.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I know you're so right. I totally would. I would
give it. I would give it up. I think I
just needed somebody to say it in the right words.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
If you came to my house, Casey, and you saw
the way I live, you would have no clue that
I ever made any money.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now, I'm a bigger fan.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Because I learned long ago. First Off, I was blessed
that I didn't make a lot of money until I
was older, But The only value money has is how
it can improve the life of yourself and others around you.
And if you have your basic needs met, if you've
got food, water, shelter, that's it. That's all you need.
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Everything else is just stuff, and stuff means nothing. It
means nothing. What kind of couch you set on means nothing.
I work in Africa. I go twice a year, sometimes
three times a year. They don't have couches, they don't
have houses, they don't have cars, they don't have food
or water. So the money that I make means everything
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to me because it can provide food and water and
shelter for kids. But once my basic needs are met,
I need nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah. And the most basic need also complicated need, but
most basic need is love.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah. And if you've got that, figure out how the
heck to be with your.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Woman, babe. If need the right push, I appreciate that. Delilah.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm going to play your song for you, and I'm
going to say a prayer for you. Lord, God, Heavenly Father,
Precious Jesus, guide Casey into the right direction. Guide him, Lord,
open the doors that need to be open, and close
the doors that you want closed. Show him that he
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can get a job in another state. He's hesitant because
he's not entirely sure that his partner feels the same.
Show him your plan, God, make it so clear, so obvious.
There will be no questions no matter what happens in life. Casey,
when you seek the Lord, when you ask for him
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to direct you, you will have peace. When he does that.
When God directs you and he moves mountains for you,
you will have peace. Amen. Up next, we have Brittany
who's dealing with a long distance marriage. Her husband needs
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to take a job out of state to support their family,
and we're going to talk about that. Because I have
a little experience with that. I think there's some things
Brittany can do to be with him. I think she
needs to be creative. I think Brittany needs to take
some chances. I'm going to share that conversation now. Hi, Brittany,
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welcome aboard. What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm not sure, Like I'll just have you pick something
for me. My husband just started a new job and
he's pretty much permanently going to be working out of
town and only coming back home every now and then.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And my youngest daughter is starting preschool.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
This year, and I'm just not ready to come home
to a completely empty, silent house.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why can't you move with him?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Because he's going to be in different places.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
So he'll be in Central Florida right now, and then
in a couple months he'll be in North Carolina, and
so he's kind of just going to be all over
the place. So it's best for me to just stay
here with the kids. And while they're going the school,
he's all around the place working.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What does he do that he moves so much.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He is a solar contractor and he just got a
job doing commercial solar installation, so it's going to be
a lot of big projects all over the southeast part
of the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well as somebody who is living with my husband for
the first time. In our nineteen years together, we enjoyed
long distance marriage. It worked for us, but we're at
different places in our life. You know, his kids were
grown and gone, and I was still adopting kids, and
he wasn't really interested in going to cub Scout meetings.
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So it worked for us all those years, and now
it's very hard getting used to being in the same house.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, well, my husband and I we've been together for
fifteen years. We're about to celebrate our ten year wedding anniversary.
And we met when I was sixteen and he was seventeen,
and we haven't left each other ever since. So this
is like a huge change for us because we're each
other's best friend and alone time for us means alone
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time with each other because like we are like attached
to each other. So this is a very big deal
for us to be separated like this.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I think you need to get a motor home and
make it an adventure.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, that's kind of that's the long term goal. And
we were going to try out homeschooling and just kind
of ride around together. And eventually when he becomes an
electrician and all of that, we're hoping that we can
just come back to the house and be stable again
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and he can just get a good job back in town.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
But for now, it's going to be him.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
If I were young and I was that connected to
a hobby, I would get a motor home.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, that's part of our plan.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, whatever you end up doing, if you're a part
and commuting on weekends or whatever, I will be here
for you.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, thank you, you have a great night.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Are you struggling because a situation is not playing out
the way you had hoped. A relationship or I don't know,
an application to a college or a job. Things are
not going according to your script. You had it written
out in your head, you had it scripted out, you
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had it planned out, and now it's just not working out.
H I hate it when other people don't follow my script.
In just a moment, I'm going to talk with a
young woman who hast to say goodbye to someone who
unfortunately is planning to be a doctor, and he's practicing
by carving her heart out of her chest with his leaving.
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I'm gonna try to find some words of hope for her.
Coming up next, Hi, beca, what can I do for
you tonight?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I am Oh.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm thinking about a boy.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
He's we've known each other since high school, but he's
going off to his residency to be a doctor. He
doesn't want a long distance relationship, and I get it,
but also I'm sad.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Because it's finally linking up for us. But yeah, he's
going after his three So if you could play a.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Song, a song that says fine, pursue your dreams, just
don't even think about me. Here with a broken heart,
missing you, mister doctor to be literally like oh go,
like go him, but I'm gonna miss him?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh him?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
But did you have to take my heart out of
my chest before you laughed?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Why?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
How old are you and how old is he?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I'm twenty three and he's twenty five, so.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That's plenty old enough to navigate a long distance relationship.
You know, if you were seventeen eighteen, I would say, yeah,
go live, go have fun, don't try to stay tied down.
But you guys are young adults. But I guess it's
really not up to you. Huh. If he said don't
want to do the long distance thing, too bad for him.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That's what I'm trying to tell myself is too bad.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So said, too bad for him. He's missing out on
the sweet lady, thank you Doilah. As much as you
care for him, and he's not the right one, imagine
how happy you'll be when God sends the right one
your way.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I got to keep his plan and check because my
plans don't matter when it comes to his.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, they matter, but they're not going to work out
if they're not in line with his will. Even if
you get your way, there have been times God and said, Okay,
have it your way to me, and he says, just
let me know how that works out. And guess what,
it never works out. Well, no it doesn't. So trust him,
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trust him, trust him.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Get the same and thank you, Becca.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Becca, Becca, Becca, This man is not willing to take
a chance on you or to invest in you for
the long haul. Let me tell you something about that.
It's a gift. It doesn't feel like it or look
like it right now, but it is a gift. When
someone doesn't value you enough to plan a future with you,
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let them go, Let them walk out the door. Thank
the Lord for that. Do not ever beg somebody to stay.
If they want to go, let them go, Let them
go with a blessing, and make room in your life
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for the person who sees your value and will do
anything to make that work. That's my best best words
of advice for you, Becca, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
I hear from a lot of folks who have reconciled
with someone from their past, those wonderful sweetheart stories. We
dated in junior high, we dated in high school, and
then folks go their separate ways. Life happens, and sometimes
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they find their way back to each other, and just
a moment, we are going to hear from a listener
who found her way back to somebody that she might
have had love crush on back in the day, but
daddy wasn't having any part of it given their age difference.
We're going to find out how that is going today.
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Stick around for that and so much more. Hi, Megan, Welcome.
What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I was wondering if you could dedicate a song to
my better half for me?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who is your better half and what makes them better?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He and his name is Brandon, and we've been together
for about fourteen months now, but we were old high
school streethearts and ended up separating over time, and twenty five.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Years later we got back together.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
How did you find your way back to each other
after a quarter of a century.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I think it was God's plan, a little bit of
his mama and my daddy knowing what they need to.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Do to put us back together.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Okay, well that's very romantical and very sweet, but practically
what happened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
I went through a divorce after twenty years and he
just asked hit me.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Up on Facebook one day.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Ah ah, so social media, and he's like, hey, hey,
I remember you. Do you remember me, yes, ra'am? And
you said, as a matter of fact, I do, yes, ma'am.
So what grade were you in when you were dating.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
We were in our teens. He was seventeen and I
was fourteen. So of course back then that's like a
ten year gap.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's a big no no with the mom and dad. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Mom said no, and we went our separate ways and
twenty five years later made our way back to each other.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
What was your mascot when you were in high school?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The Greyhounds?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The Greyhounds. Did Brandon run fast back then from you?
Or he's running fast to you?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
If he ran to me really fast, you probably.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Ran fast away from you when your father found out
he was seventeen, Yes, ma'am. My daddy did not appreciate
when I would be talking to somebody and he would
he found out one guy was a fireman. He's like,
how can he be a fireman when he's in high school?
And I'm like, uh about that? That did not go
over well with dad.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
No, my dad books a fireman too.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I will play a song for you, and the one
that you have reconciled with Call me back in a
few months and let me know how it's going. Yes,
ma'am Meghan, I am so glad you were willing to
take this chance at another try with your guy, with
your man. Listening to your story only reaffirms for me
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that God doesn't make mistakes. You are always meant to
be with him. The fact that both of your parents
confirmed that from heaven is so sweet. What a great confirmation. Megan.
Thank you for sharing your story. You have a wonderful night.
Thank you for calling You're true do Islah?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
In just a moment, we're going to talk with a
listener who thought she was calling a locksmith to change
the keys to sell her house. Little did she realize
he would end up unlocking her heart. He had the key,
and now she's missing him. We're going to play a
(27:21):
song to keep their hearts locked together across the miles
coming up next.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Hi, Delailah, this is Lisa.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Are you in your car? Are you driving and listening
to the radio? Now?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I'm homes in my bedroom listening to the radio and
miss my.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Boyfriend, missing your honey. What's his name?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Eric?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
And when I first met him? I'm born on seven
months ago. It's like thought, send him to me, and
we see each other and talk to each other every
day on the phone. But I haven't seen him in
two months, so I miss him right now and I'm
hoping to see him soon.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So seven months long distance relationship, And how's it going?
Scale of one to ten? How is the How much
joy is Eric bringing and how much sadness? And missing him?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
He brings me a lot of joy and I miss
him a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
And do you have anchors in your life keeping you
tied to wherever you are right now?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (28:21):
I had to take care of some situations where I
am now. Yes, but I have got it all finished
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So you don't have children in school, you don't have
a job, you can't leave.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
No, it's just I had to sell a house, so
I got that taken care of now and now I
can leave again. I just miss him and I want
to go up there.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
So, Lisa, you realize you're talking to a woman who
had a long distance marriage for the last fifteen years. No,
my husband and I lived in different states until September.
The only time we've lived together was during COVID, So
I have empathy for you, and I know how hard
it is when you're missing someone, but I also know
(29:05):
you're going to be just fine.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Thank you, Dahliah.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So where did you meet?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
He used my locksmith.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
How did you need a locksmith? What circumstances brought him
into your life?
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Well, I had to change the locks at the house
that I sold. I had to change the locks, so
I had to call a locksmith, and I thought I
was I called his brother and ended up being Eric him. Oh,
I met Eric instead, and Eric has been the love
of my life since then.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So he not only changed the locks, he unlocked your heart.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well wherever you end up, I pray that it is soon,
because I hear the longing in your voices driving you crazy.
And I will play a song to keep those hearts,
that heart that he opened, that he had the key
to that, I'll play a song to keep your hearts connected.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Thank you so much, Dahliah.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Lisa, I am so excited that you're taking a chance
to be with the man that literally and figuratively unlocked
your heart. You are brave, and I am praying for
both of you. I opened this podcast and talked about
taking chances, having the willingness to leave your safe harbor.
(30:25):
What is your safe harbor? What is the place that
you don't want to leave, You don't want to take
a risk? Is it on on love? Is it you're
unwilling to have your heart broken again? I think for
most adults, most people over the age of twenty five,
we are unwilling to invest so much energy into a
(30:50):
relationship only to have it crumble, only to be left
broken and aching and wondering what went wrong? I gave
my all. I trusted, I believed, I gave my all.
How how did I end up giving my all to
somebody who can walk away like that? Maybe you're unwilling
(31:12):
to leave your safe harbor and take a new job.
Maybe you're miserable in your job and you so want out,
but you think I need this payjack, and you can't
see that there's a million other jobs out there. Maybe
it's on a direction that the Lord is encouraging in
your life. Maybe God is calling you to sing, to preach,
(31:33):
to lead worship, to go to another country. I don't
know what your safe harbor is that you're unwilling to leave.
I don't know what that safe harbor is, but I
promise you. If God is leading you, it's going to
be okay. Might be rough, might be uncomfortable. God's not
(31:57):
really concerned with our comfort. It's not I've learned that
over the years. He isn't concerned with my comfort. He's
concerned with my eternal salvation and the quality of my character.
God is concerned with my eternal salvation that I will
spend eternity with Him in heaven. And he's concerned with
(32:17):
the quality of my character. Am I developing as a
human being and being the best person I can possibly
be and shining His light and his love in a
dark and dying world. In order to do that, I
gotta be a little uncomfortable. I got to go outside
of my comfort zone and shine that light. And so
(32:40):
do you something to think about. I encourage you to
have a little faith and I will see you next time.
Lord bless you.
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