November 21, 2025 • 19 mins
Having gratitude when things are hard or confusing or complicated is a beautiful thing. I am so grateful for all of you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings, my friend. Hello, Hello, Hello, are you enjoying this
season of Thanksgiving? You know, I realized a few years
ago after I lost my son Sammy in twenty twelve,
that the holidays are like a huge speaker system. They
(00:23):
amplify everything. Whatever you're feeling, whatever you're experiencing. Come November, December, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah,
Christmas season, everything is amplified. So if you're joyful, if
you're falling in love, or things are going well, you're
flying high as a kite. You're at the top of
(00:44):
your game. You can leap tall buildings. You're so excited.
But if you're grieving or struggling, oh my gosh, the
holidays are are so hard to get through. I shared
with you last week. You will find the subject of
gratitude woven in every one of my shows. Every night
(01:05):
I go on the air, I share my heart, and
my heart is grateful. During the holidays, that gratitude can
be amplified because we call it Thanksgiving. You know, gratitude
is easy to feel when things are going well, when
you found the love of your life, when your children
(01:27):
are thriving and living their best life in school, when
you don't have economic challenges or instability, or relationships that
are challenging, and especially grief. I want to appeal to
you again that those challenging moments, that, my friend, is
(01:49):
when you need gratitude the most, the only thing, the
only thing that kept me somewhat sane after I lost
my first son, Sam, and then my son Zach, and
then are my step son Ryan. The only thing that
kept me saying was forcing myself to remember how blessed
(02:12):
my life had been by their presence and recognizing their lives. However,
brief were a gift to me, to my heart, and
just because God called them home before I wanted him
to doesn't diminish or negate that gift, that blessing when
(02:37):
you can focus on the gift, on what you did have,
on the goodness in your life, instead of on the grief.
Not that you shouldn't grieve, you should, but when you
can find gratitude for the gift of love, it makes
everything just a little bit better. Next up in today's
(02:58):
podcast of How a Little Faith We Have, Gianna Gianna
is a long time listener who basically grew up with
me I'm Mama Delilah on the radio. Uh She shared
on my show about her grandmother, the woman who raised her.
Gianna is missing, this wonderful woman tonight, but her gratitude,
(03:20):
her gratitude is so evident even in the midst of
her deep grief. Hony, my name is Tianna Gianna, what
a pretty name. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thank you? Well, I just wanted to say thank you
for always broadcasting your love and faith with God. I've
listened to you and I was a little girl, and
I remember just sitting in the back of my grandma's car,
always listening to your stories and players for people. And
(03:54):
unfortunately my grandma is no longer allound, but especially I
just love her a lot. As the Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Season no longer around as in she's moved or no
longer around, and that she changed her address to heaven.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
She yeah, very see we're putting it. But unfortunately, yes,
she is not our LRD Caker.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So she's just changed her mailing address.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're right, I should always think of it in that sun.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You can't go to her old house and see her,
but you can still send all your prayers and love
and say Lord, can you deliver this firsthand? Yeah, what
a great mail man. We have huh.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I know, I know he really is, but yeah, I
just I haven't felt the same around Christmas about her.
And sorry, don't mean to get little emotional, but it's hard,
not when you're talking about your grandma.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Wait wait, wait, did you just apologize for loving and
missing your grandma?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know it's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's pretty crazy? But I know, I know, why is it?
We celebrate weddings, we celebrate birthdays, we celebrate engagements. Now
we got celebrations when somebody finds out they're pregnant. We
have you know, gender reveal parties. But we don't honor
(05:20):
people's grief. Yeah, we think we have to apologize or
make excuses or explain. You think you got to explain
to me what it's like to miss a grandma.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
My grandma more than half raised me.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That is exactly my mom had me really on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
My mom just had too many of us and didn't
really have the capacity or the bandwidth to care for us.
And she used to tell me, and my grandma even
said this, she was not a great mom. My grandma
was not an emotionally available mom because my grandpa was
in World War two and they were gone and blah
blah blah. But foy did she make up with it
(06:06):
thus grandkids?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's pretty much how I had it.
My grandma she was born in Poland and raised during
communist times more and she came on over to America,
and boy, could she tell you how to reuse something
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about twenty times over before it was finally time to
throw it away.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
My grandma had a drawer, a stuff drawer. Every gramma
has a stuff drawer. I've got a stuff drawer. But
she had a ball of rubber bands. Wow. She would
just you know, wrap them around each other until she
had a ball that was like bigger than a baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I am, I am familiar with that. And then
to the point where some of the rubber bands were disintegrating,
but they still stayed within.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That I'm sure in the inside they were. They're all disintegrated.
But you ever need a rubber band for anything anything,
you knew exactly where the rubber band ball was.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Absolutely. Yeah, It's kind of crazy to think, like it's
just such a pullsterical moment to be talking to you
when literally, like I I'm twenty eight now and I
was five, or however the young's sitting in the backseat
of her Toyota Coroa just like listening to you talk
(07:31):
about everything and talking to people and just making their
gay brighter. And so this was just kind of surreal.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I'm glad you got through. I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you were loved unconditionally by such a sweet grandma.
And it sounds like she imparted a lot of wisdom,
perhaps a lot of faith, and a lot of goodness
into your soul.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Right now, it's popular to talk about general trauma, and
a lot of us have it, but I don't hear
a lot of people talk about the generational blessings that
come from having parents or grandparents who were real you
know who told us like it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Was, I know it's I was just going to say that.
Every year, it's been very difficult to see multiple people
in my family that are older passed away because I
just was so close to that generation and I would
(08:38):
love to have as much wisdom as possible as I
move into my later like you know, later twenties and thirties,
and unfortunately they're not here to give that anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, but there are plenty of us, all folks around
that are more than willing to share our wisdom with
young people. They just they don't want to hear it.
They think eyes got better answers. So you know there
used to be well I can google that. I'm like, okay,
I can look at that on YouTube. I don't you
don't need to teach me how to sew. You don't
need to teach me how to can I can look
(09:12):
it up on YouTube. All right, Well, one day you're
gonna miss my pickles and I'm gonna be gone, and
you're not gonna know how to make them exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Makes some things that chat GBT just can't touch.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So they can try, but no.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So what's the song that will bring Grandma close to
your heart? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think out of all the songs that I would say,
Merry Christmas, Darling by the Carpenters.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So beautiful, Karen Carpenter, what a voice.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh it gets me so emotional and it throws me
right back to that back of those cars, listening to
you and going on going to see the Nutcracker or
whatever she did to make Christmas extra special?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And what is something that you can take from Grandma?
A tradition, a recipe, a memory, a ornament, something that
she always did that when it's your turn to parent
or grandparent, you can share it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Oh. I will absolutely be making her her polish and
gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh you are delightful? Are you always the sweet?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Your grandma thought so, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh she is delightful. I'm not saying I from her then,
because oh that woman she would remember every little detail
about everyone and make sure that like she remembers not
just birthday, but like each day and just everything, anniversary date.
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And she was always that person that was reaching out
and just letting people know how much you love them.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Your smile comes through on the phone, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I actually it's not that I'm not normally smiling, but
it's also like a proven trick. I used to be
in customer service, and you have to smile on the
phone because people can hear it on the other line.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Boy can't they though.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They really can't. Even in the most tricky situations where
you want to have, you know, the frowniest of frowns,
you just got to smile through it, and you just found.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And fake it till you make it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, there's any situations like that, but.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nah, your smile sounds very authentic and very beautiful and
very broad. Thank you, Thank you all right, you have
a great night, happy hollow days.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, it's happy holidays, and thank you you as well.
I am definitely You're in my prayers tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thank you, Thank you. God bless him, Bye bye. Next up,
we're going to talk to Marcus. He is the voice
of Velvet, and while he is so grateful for the
love and family he has found, he is hesitant to
go forward for I think foolish reasons. Let's have Marcus
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share his own story. Good evening, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Who's this does Marcus? How are you? Mister Delila?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Marcus? You sound like you should be on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Do you get that a lot with your voice?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I do?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, you definitely sound like somebody who could be, you know,
smoothing off the rough edges on the radio. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I've done to love my lot?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So who is the love of your life?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Mine is miss Destiny.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's her name? Or she is your destiny?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ah, that's her name.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Do you sing, Marcus? I do do you sing to
Destiny because this sounds like a country love song to me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yep, you sound like a great, big, wonderful, lovable, plaid
wearing down to earth gentle man.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I do wear plaid.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Plaid and jeans and boots. And when Destiny walks in
the room, your face lights up like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh it's the fourth of July. Every time I see her, well.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Go write me a song about destiny and then send
it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Okay, I sure can.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And how long have you in Miss Destiny the Fourth
of July celebration. Been together.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
About two years now, and it's just it's forty two,
she's thirty five.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
She's got four kids.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I've got two kids, and we just we do what
we do, and it's just amazing. I love her kids
just like their mind, and she loves mine like they're hers.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Everything's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So Christmas is coming, and I think Miss Destiny needs
something sparkly on her left hand.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, well, it's been brought up by her girlfriend a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
If she's a single mama, those kids have probably not
had a lot of stability.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I live on my one hundred and eighty acre farm
and they get some stability, they get a little.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Bit of chores here and there. They and they love
it too.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They're like, oh man, hey, can I.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Do this today instead of me doing that? And let
them do that?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Y'all pick which one y'all want, you know, it's just leave.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I'm just thinking that. You know, at Christmas time, if
they got a new dad for official, for real, that'd
be quite a Christmas gift.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It could be offering that up there. Oh yeah, you
would love it for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So what are you waiting for? Well, sell a cow,
buy a ring, make it forever?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well, I mean I could. I just don't feel like
I'm financially there yet.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you think she cares where you are financially?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
When your kids were being created, in formed, were you
there financially to afford them?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I mean, if you call an army paycheck.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
My point is you made it, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh? We did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
If this is the woman that God has brought into
your life to be your helpmate, to be your best friend,
to love you, then let her know that it's forever, yes, ma'am. Absolutely,
Mostly it'll bless your kids and her kids.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The last call I want to share today is from Andy.
One act of kindness has changed Andy's whole perspective this
holiday season. The irony is this, It was his own
act of kindness that shifted his mindset. Hi, Andy, welcome
to have a little faith with Delilah. What or who
(16:32):
is on your heart tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So I actually wanted to share a story that just
recently happened to me that I just wanted to tell
you about. So the other night I stopped at a
gas station, I was stoped to long story short, I
gave the casher eighty dollars cash, told him to use
it for whoever needed it or whoever couldn't buy whatever
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they needed, and left. And I come to find out
the eighty dollars either helped or made the night better
for nineteen people that night.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wow, that's paying it forward. Andy.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I just wanted to share that with you and hope
it brightens up somebody else's night. Just hearing that story, Well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It brighten's my heart. Knowing you're that kind of generous
that is wonderful. A lot of people miss out on
the blessing that comes to us, the happiness that comes
to us, the joy that comes to us when we
are giving to others and blessing others and sharing with others.
(17:36):
There's an old song that says, this is my commandment
that you love one another, that your joy may be full.
And when you're loving people the way you did with
that donation, that gift, your joy was made full, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Oh yeah, the feeling I had it was. I have
never felt anything like it in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I will play a sweet song and encourage everyone to
do the same, to give what they can to love
in a very real way.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I appreciate you show.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I listened to it every night.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You have a great night. Thank you for calling. Thank
you Andy for just being a sweetheart, for being a generous,
kind soul.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You are most welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I am blown away sometimes with the generosity of people
who can least afford to give away anything. I'm not
talking about just giving things money. I'm talking about giving
your heart, your time, your attention, your focus, your kindness.
When people are hurting, it's hard to imagine that you
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have anything to make someone else keep going. I'm here
to remind you that an act of kindness, an act
of love, can indeed keep someone moving forward. In closing
this episode, I want to thank you for your calls,
your comments, sharing your stories in your lives with me,
if you had any idea how much this means to me.
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Your love gives me the energy to hold on to
hold on to my hope, but mostly it reminds me
to cling to my faith even when times are tough,
even when I'm going through the hard stuff. When you've
got teenagers, you're raising teenagers, you know you're going through
hard stuff. But even with all of that, I promise
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I will focus on the gratitude and share that with you.
You're listening to the Lilah del
Greetings, my friend. Hello, Hello, Hello, are you enjoying this
season of Thanksgiving? You know, I realized a few years
ago after I lost my son Sammy in twenty twelve,
that the holidays are like a huge speaker system. They
(00:23):
amplify everything. Whatever you're feeling, whatever you're experiencing. Come November, December, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah,
Christmas season, everything is amplified. So if you're joyful, if
you're falling in love, or things are going well, you're
flying high as a kite. You're at the top of
(00:44):
your game. You can leap tall buildings. You're so excited.
But if you're grieving or struggling, oh my gosh, the
holidays are are so hard to get through. I shared
with you last week. You will find the subject of
gratitude woven in every one of my shows. Every night
(01:05):
I go on the air, I share my heart, and
my heart is grateful. During the holidays, that gratitude can
be amplified because we call it Thanksgiving. You know, gratitude
is easy to feel when things are going well, when
you found the love of your life, when your children
(01:27):
are thriving and living their best life in school, when
you don't have economic challenges or instability, or relationships that
are challenging, and especially grief. I want to appeal to
you again that those challenging moments, that, my friend, is
(01:49):
when you need gratitude the most, the only thing, the
only thing that kept me somewhat sane after I lost
my first son, Sam, and then my son Zach, and
then are my step son Ryan. The only thing that
kept me saying was forcing myself to remember how blessed
(02:12):
my life had been by their presence and recognizing their lives. However,
brief were a gift to me, to my heart, and
just because God called them home before I wanted him
to doesn't diminish or negate that gift, that blessing when
(02:37):
you can focus on the gift, on what you did have,
on the goodness in your life, instead of on the grief.
Not that you shouldn't grieve, you should, but when you
can find gratitude for the gift of love, it makes
everything just a little bit better. Next up in today's
(02:58):
podcast of How a Little Faith We Have, Gianna Gianna
is a long time listener who basically grew up with
me I'm Mama Delilah on the radio. Uh She shared
on my show about her grandmother, the woman who raised her.
Gianna is missing, this wonderful woman tonight, but her gratitude,
(03:20):
her gratitude is so evident even in the midst of
her deep grief. Hony, my name is Tianna Gianna, what
a pretty name. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Thank you? Well, I just wanted to say thank you
for always broadcasting your love and faith with God. I've
listened to you and I was a little girl, and
I remember just sitting in the back of my grandma's car,
always listening to your stories and players for people. And
(03:54):
unfortunately my grandma is no longer allound, but especially I
just love her a lot. As the Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Season no longer around as in she's moved or no
longer around, and that she changed her address to heaven.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
She yeah, very see we're putting it. But unfortunately, yes,
she is not our LRD Caker.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So she's just changed her mailing address.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You're right, I should always think of it in that sun.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You can't go to her old house and see her,
but you can still send all your prayers and love
and say Lord, can you deliver this firsthand? Yeah, what
a great mail man. We have huh.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I know, I know he really is, but yeah, I
just I haven't felt the same around Christmas about her.
And sorry, don't mean to get little emotional, but it's hard,
not when you're talking about your grandma.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Wait wait, wait, did you just apologize for loving and
missing your grandma?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know it's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's pretty crazy? But I know, I know, why is it?
We celebrate weddings, we celebrate birthdays, we celebrate engagements. Now
we got celebrations when somebody finds out they're pregnant. We
have you know, gender reveal parties. But we don't honor
(05:20):
people's grief. Yeah, we think we have to apologize or
make excuses or explain. You think you got to explain
to me what it's like to miss a grandma.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
My grandma more than half raised me.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That is exactly my mom had me really on.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
My mom just had too many of us and didn't
really have the capacity or the bandwidth to care for us.
And she used to tell me, and my grandma even
said this, she was not a great mom. My grandma
was not an emotionally available mom because my grandpa was
in World War two and they were gone and blah
blah blah. But foy did she make up with it
(06:06):
thus grandkids?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's pretty much how I had it.
My grandma she was born in Poland and raised during
communist times more and she came on over to America,
and boy, could she tell you how to reuse something
(06:28):
about twenty times over before it was finally time to
throw it away.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
My grandma had a drawer, a stuff drawer. Every gramma
has a stuff drawer. I've got a stuff drawer. But
she had a ball of rubber bands. Wow. She would
just you know, wrap them around each other until she
had a ball that was like bigger than a baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, I am, I am familiar with that. And then
to the point where some of the rubber bands were disintegrating,
but they still stayed within.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That I'm sure in the inside they were. They're all disintegrated.
But you ever need a rubber band for anything anything,
you knew exactly where the rubber band ball was.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Absolutely. Yeah, It's kind of crazy to think, like it's
just such a pullsterical moment to be talking to you
when literally, like I I'm twenty eight now and I
was five, or however the young's sitting in the backseat
of her Toyota Coroa just like listening to you talk
(07:31):
about everything and talking to people and just making their
gay brighter. And so this was just kind of surreal.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I'm glad you got through. I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you were loved unconditionally by such a sweet grandma.
And it sounds like she imparted a lot of wisdom,
perhaps a lot of faith, and a lot of goodness
into your soul.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Right now, it's popular to talk about general trauma, and
a lot of us have it, but I don't hear
a lot of people talk about the generational blessings that
come from having parents or grandparents who were real you
know who told us like it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Was, I know it's I was just going to say that.
Every year, it's been very difficult to see multiple people
in my family that are older passed away because I
just was so close to that generation and I would
(08:38):
love to have as much wisdom as possible as I
move into my later like you know, later twenties and thirties,
and unfortunately they're not here to give that anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, but there are plenty of us, all folks around
that are more than willing to share our wisdom with
young people. They just they don't want to hear it.
They think eyes got better answers. So you know there
used to be well I can google that. I'm like, okay,
I can look at that on YouTube. I don't you
don't need to teach me how to sew. You don't
need to teach me how to can I can look
(09:12):
it up on YouTube. All right, Well, one day you're
gonna miss my pickles and I'm gonna be gone, and
you're not gonna know how to make them exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Makes some things that chat GBT just can't touch.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So they can try, but no.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So what's the song that will bring Grandma close to
your heart? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think out of all the songs that I would say,
Merry Christmas, Darling by the Carpenters.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So beautiful, Karen Carpenter, what a voice.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh it gets me so emotional and it throws me
right back to that back of those cars, listening to
you and going on going to see the Nutcracker or
whatever she did to make Christmas extra special?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
And what is something that you can take from Grandma?
A tradition, a recipe, a memory, a ornament, something that
she always did that when it's your turn to parent
or grandparent, you can share it.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Oh. I will absolutely be making her her polish and
gingerbread cookies.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh you are delightful? Are you always the sweet?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Your grandma thought so, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh she is delightful. I'm not saying I from her then,
because oh that woman she would remember every little detail
about everyone and make sure that like she remembers not
just birthday, but like each day and just everything, anniversary date.
(11:06):
And she was always that person that was reaching out
and just letting people know how much you love them.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Your smile comes through on the phone, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I actually it's not that I'm not normally smiling, but
it's also like a proven trick. I used to be
in customer service, and you have to smile on the
phone because people can hear it on the other line.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Boy can't they though.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
They really can't. Even in the most tricky situations where
you want to have, you know, the frowniest of frowns,
you just got to smile through it, and you just found.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
And fake it till you make it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, there's any situations like that, but.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nah, your smile sounds very authentic and very beautiful and
very broad. Thank you, Thank you all right, you have
a great night, happy hollow days.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, it's happy holidays, and thank you you as well.
I am definitely You're in my prayers tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Thank you, Thank you. God bless him, Bye bye. Next up,
we're going to talk to Marcus. He is the voice
of Velvet, and while he is so grateful for the
love and family he has found, he is hesitant to
go forward for I think foolish reasons. Let's have Marcus
(12:30):
share his own story. Good evening, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Who's this does Marcus? How are you? Mister Delila?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Marcus? You sound like you should be on the radio.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Do you get that a lot with your voice?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I do?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, you definitely sound like somebody who could be, you know,
smoothing off the rough edges on the radio. What can
I do for you?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
You know?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I've done to love my lot?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So who is the love of your life?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Mine is miss Destiny.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's her name? Or she is your destiny?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ah, that's her name.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Do you sing, Marcus? I do do you sing to
Destiny because this sounds like a country love song to me.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Yeah, it's where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yep, you sound like a great, big, wonderful, lovable, plaid
wearing down to earth gentle man.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I do wear plaid.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Plaid and jeans and boots. And when Destiny walks in
the room, your face lights up like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh it's the fourth of July. Every time I see her, well.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Go write me a song about destiny and then send
it to me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Okay, I sure can.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And how long have you in Miss Destiny the Fourth
of July celebration. Been together.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
About two years now, and it's just it's forty two,
she's thirty five.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
She's got four kids.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I've got two kids, and we just we do what
we do, and it's just amazing. I love her kids
just like their mind, and she loves mine like they're hers.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Everything's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So Christmas is coming, and I think Miss Destiny needs
something sparkly on her left hand.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah, well, it's been brought up by her girlfriend a
couple of times.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
If she's a single mama, those kids have probably not
had a lot of stability.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
I live on my one hundred and eighty acre farm
and they get some stability, they get a little.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Bit of chores here and there. They and they love
it too.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They're like, oh man, hey, can I.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Do this today instead of me doing that? And let
them do that?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Y'all pick which one y'all want, you know, it's just leave.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I'm just thinking that. You know, at Christmas time, if
they got a new dad for official, for real, that'd
be quite a Christmas gift.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It could be offering that up there. Oh yeah, you
would love it for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
So what are you waiting for? Well, sell a cow,
buy a ring, make it forever?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Well, I mean I could. I just don't feel like
I'm financially there yet.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you think she cares where you are financially?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Oh? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
When your kids were being created, in formed, were you
there financially to afford them?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I mean, if you call an army paycheck.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
My point is you made it, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh? We did? Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
If this is the woman that God has brought into
your life to be your helpmate, to be your best friend,
to love you, then let her know that it's forever, yes, ma'am. Absolutely,
Mostly it'll bless your kids and her kids.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The last call I want to share today is from Andy.
One act of kindness has changed Andy's whole perspective this
holiday season. The irony is this, It was his own
act of kindness that shifted his mindset. Hi, Andy, welcome
to have a little faith with Delilah. What or who
(16:32):
is on your heart tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
So I actually wanted to share a story that just
recently happened to me that I just wanted to tell
you about. So the other night I stopped at a
gas station, I was stoped to long story short, I
gave the casher eighty dollars cash, told him to use
it for whoever needed it or whoever couldn't buy whatever
(16:55):
they needed, and left. And I come to find out
the eighty dollars either helped or made the night better
for nineteen people that night.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wow, that's paying it forward. Andy.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I just wanted to share that with you and hope
it brightens up somebody else's night. Just hearing that story, Well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It brighten's my heart. Knowing you're that kind of generous
that is wonderful. A lot of people miss out on
the blessing that comes to us, the happiness that comes
to us, the joy that comes to us when we
are giving to others and blessing others and sharing with others.
(17:36):
There's an old song that says, this is my commandment
that you love one another, that your joy may be full.
And when you're loving people the way you did with
that donation, that gift, your joy was made full, wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Oh yeah, the feeling I had it was. I have
never felt anything like it in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I will play a sweet song and encourage everyone to
do the same, to give what they can to love
in a very real way.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I appreciate you show.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I listened to it every night.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You have a great night. Thank you for calling. Thank
you Andy for just being a sweetheart, for being a generous,
kind soul.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
You are most welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I am blown away sometimes with the generosity of people
who can least afford to give away anything. I'm not
talking about just giving things money. I'm talking about giving
your heart, your time, your attention, your focus, your kindness.
When people are hurting, it's hard to imagine that you
(18:41):
have anything to make someone else keep going. I'm here
to remind you that an act of kindness, an act
of love, can indeed keep someone moving forward. In closing
this episode, I want to thank you for your calls,
your comments, sharing your stories in your lives with me,
if you had any idea how much this means to me.
(19:03):
Your love gives me the energy to hold on to
hold on to my hope, but mostly it reminds me
to cling to my faith even when times are tough,
even when I'm going through the hard stuff. When you've
got teenagers, you're raising teenagers, you know you're going through
hard stuff. But even with all of that, I promise
(19:27):
I will focus on the gratitude and share that with you.
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