November 26, 2025 • 20 mins
Welcome to part three of our gratitude series of “Have A Little Faith With Delilah”.
As we continue to celebrate gratitude this holiday season. We are slowing down just enough to notice the things we usually rush past in a world that constantly pushes us towards what’s next. Being grateful pulls us back to what’s here, the small moments, the unexpected kindness, the everyday miracles.
In this episode. I’m going to share stories from a few people who understand that sentiment. I’m so glad that you have joined me today and I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed creating it. I am grateful for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, my friend, Welcome back. Welcome back to have a
Little Faith with Delia. We started doing this new podcast
a couple of months ago, and of all the projects
I've taken on in the last teen years, I think
I've been most excited about about this project because I
(00:24):
love having the freedom to share my faith. See. For years,
because I'm in commercial radio, not Christian radio, for years,
I've been told to be quiet. We don't talk about
our faith. That's something that's divisive and nobody want to
hear about that. But guess what. My faith is the
(00:46):
cornerstone of all that I am, and it is the
reason I have so much gratitude in my heart. So
sharing it with you feels as comfortable as briefing. The
last couple of weeks my podcast have been about gratitude.
We are celebrating the day of Thanksgiving, but also the
(01:09):
whole season of gratitude. We're celebrating it all month long,
all season long, but I think we should celebrate it
all year long. Gratitude should be a part of our
daily thoughts. Expressing kindness and love and gratitude is a
common theme you will find on my show each and
every night, because it's how I live my life. It's
(01:31):
how I think we should all live our life. So
many things. I'm grateful for my health. To begin with
my health. I decided to take some advice, mostly from
my sister in law who's a retired registered nurse, who
sat me down and had a very frank conversation with me,
and I don't do certain destructive things. I thought I
(01:53):
got a pass. I thought the Almighty was going to
give me a pass on my poor eating choices. Ah,
my blood sugar said nay, nay, no, we have to
pay attention here. And so for the last five or
six months, I have been making different life choices when
it comes to my eating and my exercise. And it
(02:15):
was really my sister in law, Joni, that motivated me
to take that step and break that addiction, because I
have such an addiction to sugar, to process foods and sugars.
And I'm not talking about you know, bags of flaming
hot Cheetos, although I do love those, but just honey
in my tea four or five times a day, or
(02:40):
a cupcake or an apple fritter before I go to bed,
or a bowl of ice cream with the kids and
pasta and rice we cook rice. We have rice with
just about every meal. My children are rice and they
love rice and beans. They love rice with meat. They
love rice, and they're still They're from Ghana, West Africa,
(03:04):
and rice is a staple food, and so I just
kept making it not good for me, not good for them.
So I've had to change my cooking habits and certainly
change my eating habits. So I am grateful this year
for my health. On this episode of Have a Little Faith,
(03:24):
I'm going to share some very grateful people up. First,
we have Blarehm. Blaream is grateful for his wife, his children,
and for a restaurant they are opening together. Let's hear
his grateful heart right now, Good evening. This is Delilah,
who's with me on the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yes, Delilah, my name is Blair him.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How are you, Blair. I'm wonderful. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I just want to express the law from my beautiful wife, Jennifer,
and uh it's wonderful. She's ray our two daughters. Because
I work most of the time. I just wanted to
tell her how much I appreciate her.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Jennifer. Also say Hi Delilah from the Hi Delilah.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Hi, Jennifer. Your husband called me to tell me. He
said he's working so hard to support the family, but
that you are doing everything for the girls and for
your family, and he loves you.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, my husband is so sweet. Yes, he's working very hard.
He has a regular hotel job, but he's also working
beforehand to open up his own restaurant. So I am
very impressed by him.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So what kind of restaurant are we going to have?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Italian and pizza and plantation Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, I can't wait. Once you get there, once it's open,
let me.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Know we will.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yes, yeah, it's incredib I mean, we go on about
what four or five hours of sleep every night so
we can take care of our growing little family. Our
daughter just turn one this week and our other daughter
just started kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So with two babies, why not why not have a
full time job and be opening a restaurant where you
will be twenty four to seven once it's open. Can
I give you some advices from somebody who had a
restaurant for years? Yes, you can't leave. You have to
stay there all the time. If you leave, you will
(05:32):
lose your restaurant. If you step out the door, so
does everything in the freezer. I don't know how it works,
but if you've got fifty pounds of meatballs in the freezer,
you leave the restaurant to go home and sleep for
a minute. You come back, there's only twenty pounds of meatballs.
I don't know where they go.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I know it's true.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I mean toilet paper. I would buy a case of
toilet paper. I would go home, I would come back
there'd be two rolls of toilet paper. Now, I mean
that was back before you know, I was smart and
would have had cameras everywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
But my goodness, yeah, Delilah, Delilah, Yes, my darling, who's
going to be the chef?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Which one of you loves to cook?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love to cook and my wife loves to bake.
Though it's a private combination.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And are you going to phase out so you don't
have to have other jobs that this will the restaurant
will be your full time gig.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, yes, full time gig hopefully.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And you know, I'm a person I can I can
teach people how to do it and hopefully they're going
to have the passion do it. And I want to
be able to trust them, you know, because I'm I
used to be very you know, controlled free.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, no, you're not going to be able to trust them, Blair.
I'm sorry, You're going to have to be a control
freak if you want your restaurant to survive. Yeah, tell
me about Jennifer. Tell me about your marriage.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, Jennifer, she's the redhead.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Third generation I, which is perfect for me because I'm
Albanian and we both you know, mixed rate Europeans.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We have the most beautiful daughters.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
In the world that every pair and shall say for
their daughters, right, And the little one is Laura Lei
and the oldest one is Julietta.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You must have a beautiful, beautiful family. What's going to
be the name of your restaurant?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Kucina Alfresco?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Okay, Kuchina Alfresco and Plantation, Florida.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, we met in Chicago twenty fifteen and we've been
since then trying to create memories and met in love.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And when you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Open the restaurant, is there going to be a table
called the Delilah Table where folks falling in love, you know,
people who want to propose that sort of thing. We
can have a booth in the back in the corner
in the dark. That'll just be the Delilah table for
couples in love.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I have a favorite restaurant in New York City. I
go to Lamels every time I'm there, to Juniors or Lamela's,
and I'm like, you guys need to have like my
table here where where my listeners can come and set
and enjoy your food. So we can have the Delilah
table in Plantation, Florida.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Absolutely will be will be our honor to have that.
You know where Mother Teresa is from.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
From Albania. Yeah, my mother in law met Mother Teresa.
I called my mother in law one night, like eleven o'clock.
I said, mom, I just found out because I worked
at the radio station in Boston. I said, mom, I
just found out that Mother Teresa is going to be
at this church tomorrow during the first Mass. And da
(08:43):
da dad da da dad da da dad. They're not
letting it be known to the public yet. And she's like,
oh my goodness. So she did not go to bed
that night. She stayed up all night and she went
to the church at like midnight and parked in the
parking lot and waited, and she was the first one
in line when the church doors opened so she could
(09:06):
go to the mass, and she sat up front, and
when they passed the piece, she got to go forward,
and she blessed Mother Teresa, and Mother Teresa blessed her.
And when Mother Teresa held her hand, she said she
felt warmth spread through her whole body and her little legs.
(09:26):
My mother in law's only five foot tap less than
five foot tall, like four eleven, and her little legs
were so inflamed and swollen from years of being on
her feet working. She worked as a hairstylust and then
she worked cleaning people's houses. And the minute that Mother
Teresa touched her, her legs were completely healed. And for
years she had no more pain in her feet or
(09:50):
her legs.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's wonderful, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's my Mother teresa miracle story.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's I'll be in touch, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We'll be intention and I'll send you a picture.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't have to share one story or you have
to do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well, I just wanted to say how romantic my husband
is and how I knew that he was the one
within a week of dating him.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Because we lived.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
In Chicago, so neither of us had a car, and
I from Florida, so I visited my parents within a
week of us starting to date. So he asked his
best friend to borrow his minivan up from the airport,
which was like thirty minutes away from you know, downtown Chicago,
and he gave me a hand wrapped gift within a
(10:41):
week of dating, which I kind of freaked out. I
didn't know what was going to be in the box,
and the way that he wrapped it he used in
mind you was September and he wrapped it with Superman
or Batman Christmas wrapping paper.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Because it's all he had handy at the house. I'm
sure I have.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
A photo of it still.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This is ten years ago. And he made like his
own handmade handle with string and it was a big
block and I said, oh my god, what is this
guy doing. We've only been dating seven days and he
got me a gift. He picked me up from the
airport in a minivan. I open it and it is
about I don't know, six or seven little bags of
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salt vinegar chips. Because I said that my favorite chips
is salt vinegar chips, and he showed that he was listening.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And I always said, like the wad.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Of my heart is salm vineger chips. Like it was
just kind of a joke, but it was just showing
that he was listening and he cares, and it was
like a funny little gift, and I knew that I
was in trouble, so to speak. Ever since then.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He got you with the saltan. You know what my
husband does. We've been together nineteen years now, and he
knows my favorite snacks. Salt and vinegar chips are right
up there by the way. But I love gigerones and
I love black liquors, and he hides them in the
glove compartment in my car so that when I'm on
(12:09):
long road trips or when I have to drive, like
to the airport or whatever, He'll just text me or
call me and say, check your glove compartment, and I
find these little little snacks, because the idea, the weight
of my heart is with you know, a snack, right,
of course, So we both did well. We both are
blessed with considerate men, very very blessed.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
If he's half as good looking as his accent, you
forget that you don't hold the salt and vinegar chips.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So good in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Let me tell you, he really is a great cooker,
Like he's an awesome chef, like he could be in
the kitchen himself for the restaurant. I mean, but it's
just it's a lot of work to run a restaurant
and cook and all that, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But you guys are gonna do awesome. We are, yes,
I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Going to have the Delilah table. We are.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All right. I'm gonna send you a picture and I'm
gonna play you a song.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
All right, good night. Debbie is joining us right now,
who is very grateful for her sobriety. I know a
lot of people who've stopped drinking or stop drugging, but
they're not going to twelve step meetings. They refuse, they
put down there, they dig in their heels. No, I
(13:28):
don't need that. I'm not like those people. And so
they're dry drunks. They're not maturing, they're not becoming the
best version of themselves because they're still being stopburn but
not deb deb is very grateful for her sobriety, and
(13:48):
she wants to share her new health, her new life
with the world.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Good evening you've called the Delilah Show.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Who is this?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, it's dab Hi yeb welcome aboard. Tell me what
you are so grateful for this holiday season.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Well, let's see in February, God willing, I'll have nineteen years, sobriety.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Whoa, that's a lot to celebrate. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Since we're
taking things one day at a time. We got eighteen
years and some change.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Yes, I knew, and it's not always by Rosie. So
I'm listening here for rival. I'm sixties and every time
I'm just like not maybe it's a happy place. I
just have to turn your show on and I just
(14:46):
feel so much better.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, here's my prayer every night, deb my prayer. My
producer Jane, my producer David, all my producers, we all
believe in the Almighty, and our prayer is use us
to be a light in a world that has grown dark.
Use us to be a light and to share love
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in a world that sometimes is hardhearted. And so long
as I've got a voice in my throat and breath
in my lungs, I pray that God would let me
be that love letter to the world. Every night his
love letter.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
You are believe me in all the silly things I
did throughout my life with alcohol and draw God was
with me the entire time, because I mean, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So what you're saying is you and I are both
living on borrowed time and God is continuing to bless us.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, oh big time.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You have a good night. You too, God loss you,
God bless you. The last story I want to share
is from Laura. She spent the last few years healing
after being in a very abusive relationship. However, this holiday season,
she's not only celebrating a new life, but also a
new love. Hi, Laura, welcome to have a little faith
(16:17):
with Delilah. Happy Thanksgiving. What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, I was hoping that you could play a song
for me. It's been a rough year. I ended a
pretty abusive relationship and now I've actually reconnected with someone
who is a wonderful man who I never thought would
be possible that could love me as much as he does,
(16:42):
and so hopefully he can play a song for us.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So you ended one relationship that was not good on
a scale of one to ten, with one being he
annoyed you and didn't take out the trash, and ten
being he said things like you were the trash, Like
where does he fall on the scale of not good
to you?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, I'm glad you got out of that, and I'm
glad you're safe.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And now putting the past in the past and moving
confidently into the future. Tell me about this reconnection.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well, you know, I was actually introduced to him from
my best friend, so you know, sometimes they know best.
And like I said, he is just a wonderful man.
I actually met him in twenty sixteen, so for us
to be able to reconnect at this time that we're
(17:39):
both single, and I just really think that God placed
him in my life and he's already been so instrumental
in helping my heart as I've been healing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So we're looking at a very merry Christmas. How many
years were you not in a merry Christmas situation?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Too many?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Too many? Too many? You don't even want to think about.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It, No, I don't. I sure don't.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But here's the thing. I had somebody call me the
other night and she said, all those years that were
wasted She found out her husband was seeing her best friend,
and I said, Honey, those years were not wasted years.
That the way your your character developed and the way
your soul grew and the way your personality developed, those
(18:24):
are not wasted. And they had children together, so that
the way that you raised your children, those are not
wasted years. So stop thinking about it that way and
making yourself feel even worse, and think about the valuable
lessons you've learned and that you won't ever allow yourself
(18:44):
to be treated that way again.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Absolutely, I think that's what it took for me to
have my eyes open to actually see what a good,
healthy relationship is supposed to look like with a godly, kind, loving,
caring man.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I feel so blessed.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I will play a good uh. We're going to have
a wonderful Christmas and start our own tradition song.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Absolutely, thank you so much, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Thank you, thank you for listening Laura all these years,
Thank you for calling. Absolutely, you have a great holiday,
God bless you.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Thank you same to you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
In closing this episode, I just want to remind you
once again how grateful I am for you. Your story,
is your love, your trust in me, It truly means
so much. Mostly mostly I am grateful to the Lord
God Almighty that I get to share my faith openly
and honestly in this podcast, that I don't have to
(19:45):
subtly slip in. You know, I'll pray for you, but
I can say boldly I will pray for you. I
will pray for you, I will pray for healing, I
will pray for miracles, I will pray for the Holy
Spirit to fill you from he to toe. I'll be
back next week, but until then, never forget the little
(20:05):
mustard seed of faith is all it takes to change
your entire life. God bless you
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Del
Hello, my friend, Welcome back. Welcome back to have a
Little Faith with Delia. We started doing this new podcast
a couple of months ago, and of all the projects
I've taken on in the last teen years, I think
I've been most excited about about this project because I
(00:24):
love having the freedom to share my faith. See. For years,
because I'm in commercial radio, not Christian radio, for years,
I've been told to be quiet. We don't talk about
our faith. That's something that's divisive and nobody want to
hear about that. But guess what. My faith is the
(00:46):
cornerstone of all that I am, and it is the
reason I have so much gratitude in my heart. So
sharing it with you feels as comfortable as briefing. The
last couple of weeks my podcast have been about gratitude.
We are celebrating the day of Thanksgiving, but also the
(01:09):
whole season of gratitude. We're celebrating it all month long,
all season long, but I think we should celebrate it
all year long. Gratitude should be a part of our
daily thoughts. Expressing kindness and love and gratitude is a
common theme you will find on my show each and
every night, because it's how I live my life. It's
(01:31):
how I think we should all live our life. So
many things. I'm grateful for my health. To begin with
my health. I decided to take some advice, mostly from
my sister in law who's a retired registered nurse, who
sat me down and had a very frank conversation with me,
and I don't do certain destructive things. I thought I
(01:53):
got a pass. I thought the Almighty was going to
give me a pass on my poor eating choices. Ah,
my blood sugar said nay, nay, no, we have to
pay attention here. And so for the last five or
six months, I have been making different life choices when
it comes to my eating and my exercise. And it
(02:15):
was really my sister in law, Joni, that motivated me
to take that step and break that addiction, because I
have such an addiction to sugar, to process foods and sugars.
And I'm not talking about you know, bags of flaming
hot Cheetos, although I do love those, but just honey
in my tea four or five times a day, or
(02:40):
a cupcake or an apple fritter before I go to bed,
or a bowl of ice cream with the kids and
pasta and rice we cook rice. We have rice with
just about every meal. My children are rice and they
love rice and beans. They love rice with meat. They
love rice, and they're still They're from Ghana, West Africa,
(03:04):
and rice is a staple food, and so I just
kept making it not good for me, not good for them.
So I've had to change my cooking habits and certainly
change my eating habits. So I am grateful this year
for my health. On this episode of Have a Little Faith,
(03:24):
I'm going to share some very grateful people up. First,
we have Blarehm. Blaream is grateful for his wife, his children,
and for a restaurant they are opening together. Let's hear
his grateful heart right now, Good evening. This is Delilah,
who's with me on the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yes, Delilah, my name is Blair him.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How are you, Blair. I'm wonderful. What can I do
for you?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I just want to express the law from my beautiful wife, Jennifer,
and uh it's wonderful. She's ray our two daughters. Because
I work most of the time. I just wanted to
tell her how much I appreciate her.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Jennifer. Also say Hi Delilah from the Hi Delilah.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Hi, Jennifer. Your husband called me to tell me. He
said he's working so hard to support the family, but
that you are doing everything for the girls and for
your family, and he loves you.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, my husband is so sweet. Yes, he's working very hard.
He has a regular hotel job, but he's also working
beforehand to open up his own restaurant. So I am
very impressed by him.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
So what kind of restaurant are we going to have?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Italian and pizza and plantation Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh, I can't wait. Once you get there, once it's open,
let me.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Know we will.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yes, yeah, it's incredib I mean, we go on about
what four or five hours of sleep every night so
we can take care of our growing little family. Our
daughter just turn one this week and our other daughter
just started kindergarten.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So with two babies, why not why not have a
full time job and be opening a restaurant where you
will be twenty four to seven once it's open. Can
I give you some advices from somebody who had a
restaurant for years? Yes, you can't leave. You have to
stay there all the time. If you leave, you will
(05:32):
lose your restaurant. If you step out the door, so
does everything in the freezer. I don't know how it works,
but if you've got fifty pounds of meatballs in the freezer,
you leave the restaurant to go home and sleep for
a minute. You come back, there's only twenty pounds of meatballs.
I don't know where they go.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I know it's true.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I mean toilet paper. I would buy a case of
toilet paper. I would go home, I would come back
there'd be two rolls of toilet paper. Now, I mean
that was back before you know, I was smart and
would have had cameras everywhere.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
But my goodness, yeah, Delilah, Delilah, Yes, my darling, who's
going to be the chef?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Which one of you loves to cook?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I love to cook and my wife loves to bake.
Though it's a private combination.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And are you going to phase out so you don't
have to have other jobs that this will the restaurant
will be your full time gig.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, yes, full time gig hopefully.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
And you know, I'm a person I can I can
teach people how to do it and hopefully they're going
to have the passion do it. And I want to
be able to trust them, you know, because I'm I
used to be very you know, controlled free.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah, no, you're not going to be able to trust them, Blair.
I'm sorry, You're going to have to be a control
freak if you want your restaurant to survive. Yeah, tell
me about Jennifer. Tell me about your marriage.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, Jennifer, she's the redhead.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Third generation I, which is perfect for me because I'm
Albanian and we both you know, mixed rate Europeans.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
We have the most beautiful daughters.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
In the world that every pair and shall say for
their daughters, right, And the little one is Laura Lei
and the oldest one is Julietta.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You must have a beautiful, beautiful family. What's going to
be the name of your restaurant?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Kucina Alfresco?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Okay, Kuchina Alfresco and Plantation, Florida.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, we met in Chicago twenty fifteen and we've been
since then trying to create memories and met in love.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And when you.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Open the restaurant, is there going to be a table
called the Delilah Table where folks falling in love, you know,
people who want to propose that sort of thing. We
can have a booth in the back in the corner
in the dark. That'll just be the Delilah table for
couples in love.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I have a favorite restaurant in New York City. I
go to Lamels every time I'm there, to Juniors or Lamela's,
and I'm like, you guys need to have like my
table here where where my listeners can come and set
and enjoy your food. So we can have the Delilah
table in Plantation, Florida.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Absolutely will be will be our honor to have that.
You know where Mother Teresa is from.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
From Albania. Yeah, my mother in law met Mother Teresa.
I called my mother in law one night, like eleven o'clock.
I said, mom, I just found out because I worked
at the radio station in Boston. I said, mom, I
just found out that Mother Teresa is going to be
at this church tomorrow during the first Mass. And da
(08:43):
da dad da da dad da da dad. They're not
letting it be known to the public yet. And she's like,
oh my goodness. So she did not go to bed
that night. She stayed up all night and she went
to the church at like midnight and parked in the
parking lot and waited, and she was the first one
in line when the church doors opened so she could
(09:06):
go to the mass, and she sat up front, and
when they passed the piece, she got to go forward,
and she blessed Mother Teresa, and Mother Teresa blessed her.
And when Mother Teresa held her hand, she said she
felt warmth spread through her whole body and her little legs.
(09:26):
My mother in law's only five foot tap less than
five foot tall, like four eleven, and her little legs
were so inflamed and swollen from years of being on
her feet working. She worked as a hairstylust and then
she worked cleaning people's houses. And the minute that Mother
Teresa touched her, her legs were completely healed. And for
years she had no more pain in her feet or
(09:50):
her legs.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's wonderful, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's my Mother teresa miracle story.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
That's I'll be in touch, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We'll be intention and I'll send you a picture.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I don't have to share one story or you have
to do.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Well, I just wanted to say how romantic my husband
is and how I knew that he was the one
within a week of dating him.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Because we lived.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
In Chicago, so neither of us had a car, and
I from Florida, so I visited my parents within a
week of us starting to date. So he asked his
best friend to borrow his minivan up from the airport,
which was like thirty minutes away from you know, downtown Chicago,
and he gave me a hand wrapped gift within a
(10:41):
week of dating, which I kind of freaked out. I
didn't know what was going to be in the box,
and the way that he wrapped it he used in
mind you was September and he wrapped it with Superman
or Batman Christmas wrapping paper.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Because it's all he had handy at the house. I'm
sure I have.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
A photo of it still.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This is ten years ago. And he made like his
own handmade handle with string and it was a big
block and I said, oh my god, what is this
guy doing. We've only been dating seven days and he
got me a gift. He picked me up from the
airport in a minivan. I open it and it is
about I don't know, six or seven little bags of
(11:23):
salt vinegar chips. Because I said that my favorite chips
is salt vinegar chips, and he showed that he was listening.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And I always said, like the wad.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Of my heart is salm vineger chips. Like it was
just kind of a joke, but it was just showing
that he was listening and he cares, and it was
like a funny little gift, and I knew that I
was in trouble, so to speak. Ever since then.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
He got you with the saltan. You know what my
husband does. We've been together nineteen years now, and he
knows my favorite snacks. Salt and vinegar chips are right
up there by the way. But I love gigerones and
I love black liquors, and he hides them in the
glove compartment in my car so that when I'm on
(12:09):
long road trips or when I have to drive, like
to the airport or whatever, He'll just text me or
call me and say, check your glove compartment, and I
find these little little snacks, because the idea, the weight
of my heart is with you know, a snack, right,
of course, So we both did well. We both are
blessed with considerate men, very very blessed.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
If he's half as good looking as his accent, you
forget that you don't hold the salt and vinegar chips.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So good in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Let me tell you, he really is a great cooker,
Like he's an awesome chef, like he could be in
the kitchen himself for the restaurant. I mean, but it's
just it's a lot of work to run a restaurant
and cook and all that, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I know.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
But you guys are gonna do awesome. We are, yes,
I have no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Going to have the Delilah table. We are.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All right. I'm gonna send you a picture and I'm
gonna play you a song.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
All right, good night. Debbie is joining us right now,
who is very grateful for her sobriety. I know a
lot of people who've stopped drinking or stop drugging, but
they're not going to twelve step meetings. They refuse, they
put down there, they dig in their heels. No, I
(13:28):
don't need that. I'm not like those people. And so
they're dry drunks. They're not maturing, they're not becoming the
best version of themselves because they're still being stopburn but
not deb deb is very grateful for her sobriety, and
(13:48):
she wants to share her new health, her new life
with the world.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Good evening you've called the Delilah Show.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Who is this?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yes, it's dab Hi yeb welcome aboard. Tell me what
you are so grateful for this holiday season.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Well, let's see in February, God willing, I'll have nineteen years, sobriety.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Whoa, that's a lot to celebrate. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Since we're
taking things one day at a time. We got eighteen
years and some change.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Yes, I knew, and it's not always by Rosie. So
I'm listening here for rival. I'm sixties and every time
I'm just like not maybe it's a happy place. I
just have to turn your show on and I just
(14:46):
feel so much better.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Well, here's my prayer every night, deb my prayer. My
producer Jane, my producer David, all my producers, we all
believe in the Almighty, and our prayer is use us
to be a light in a world that has grown dark.
Use us to be a light and to share love
(15:11):
in a world that sometimes is hardhearted. And so long
as I've got a voice in my throat and breath
in my lungs, I pray that God would let me
be that love letter to the world. Every night his
love letter.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
You are believe me in all the silly things I
did throughout my life with alcohol and draw God was
with me the entire time, because I mean, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
So what you're saying is you and I are both
living on borrowed time and God is continuing to bless us.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yes, oh big time.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Thank you, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You have a good night. You too, God loss you,
God bless you. The last story I want to share
is from Laura. She spent the last few years healing
after being in a very abusive relationship. However, this holiday season,
she's not only celebrating a new life, but also a
new love. Hi, Laura, welcome to have a little faith
(16:17):
with Delilah. Happy Thanksgiving. What can I do for you tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Well, I was hoping that you could play a song
for me. It's been a rough year. I ended a
pretty abusive relationship and now I've actually reconnected with someone
who is a wonderful man who I never thought would
be possible that could love me as much as he does,
(16:42):
and so hopefully he can play a song for us.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So you ended one relationship that was not good on
a scale of one to ten, with one being he
annoyed you and didn't take out the trash, and ten
being he said things like you were the trash, Like
where does he fall on the scale of not good
to you?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Well, I'm glad you got out of that, and I'm
glad you're safe.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And now putting the past in the past and moving
confidently into the future. Tell me about this reconnection.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Well, you know, I was actually introduced to him from
my best friend, so you know, sometimes they know best.
And like I said, he is just a wonderful man.
I actually met him in twenty sixteen, so for us
to be able to reconnect at this time that we're
(17:39):
both single, and I just really think that God placed
him in my life and he's already been so instrumental
in helping my heart as I've been healing.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
So we're looking at a very merry Christmas. How many
years were you not in a merry Christmas situation?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Too many?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Too many? Too many? You don't even want to think about.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It, No, I don't. I sure don't.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
But here's the thing. I had somebody call me the
other night and she said, all those years that were
wasted She found out her husband was seeing her best friend,
and I said, Honey, those years were not wasted years.
That the way your your character developed and the way
your soul grew and the way your personality developed, those
(18:24):
are not wasted. And they had children together, so that
the way that you raised your children, those are not
wasted years. So stop thinking about it that way and
making yourself feel even worse, and think about the valuable
lessons you've learned and that you won't ever allow yourself
(18:44):
to be treated that way again.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Absolutely, I think that's what it took for me to
have my eyes open to actually see what a good,
healthy relationship is supposed to look like with a godly, kind, loving,
caring man.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I feel so blessed.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I will play a good uh. We're going to have
a wonderful Christmas and start our own tradition song.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Absolutely, thank you so much, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Thank you, thank you for listening Laura all these years,
Thank you for calling. Absolutely, you have a great holiday,
God bless you.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Thank you same to you.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
In closing this episode, I just want to remind you
once again how grateful I am for you. Your story,
is your love, your trust in me, It truly means
so much. Mostly mostly I am grateful to the Lord
God Almighty that I get to share my faith openly
and honestly in this podcast, that I don't have to
(19:45):
subtly slip in. You know, I'll pray for you, but
I can say boldly I will pray for you. I
will pray for you, I will pray for healing, I
will pray for miracles, I will pray for the Holy
Spirit to fill you from he to toe. I'll be
back next week, but until then, never forget the little
(20:05):
mustard seed of faith is all it takes to change
your entire life. God bless you
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Del
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