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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. If you have
recently hit a crossroads and you don't know which way

(00:22):
to go, sit down at the intersection and be patient.
You're at a crossroads. Maybe you lost your job. Maybe
you left your job, maybe you left your family. Maybe
you're spreading your wings to fly. Maybe you decided that
college that you were spending all that money on wasn't

(00:42):
right for you, and your world has turned upside down.
I don't know, but I do know this. Don't rush
into something, sit down and wait for a moment. The
best is yet to come. Hi, Julie, what can I
do for you?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, I'm a nurse and I've been in the same
job for twenty nine years, and now I've left my
job and I'm going to a new job, and I'm
having a lot of trouble letting go of my old job.
Yet I'm still excited about the new and I was
wondering if you could just play a song to help

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me with that.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, are you having a hard time letting go of
the job or the folks that you fell in love
with and that you've bonded with and are in your
blood and a part of your life.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yes, that's exactly it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
And is the love that you feel for them just
when you're at work or do you take it home?
And do you care about them? And have you formed
real friendships?

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
So even though you won't see them as often and
it won't be a daily thing, that love won't go away, right,
It'll only cease to be if you cease to keep
those friendships strong. Right, So when you're going home from
your new job, you got to call your friends at
the old job and say, I miss you guys, what's
going on?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
You know that's today with technology, with email and cell phones,
it's easier than ever to keep in touch. Yes, right,
So it's just going to take a little more effort,
and you're gonna miss the day in and day out
goofy conversations and the history that you've established because that's
a lifetime.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Lucky for me, I get fired every two or three years,
so I never have a chance to form those kinds
of relationships. But I will play a great song for
you in good luck. May your new job just bless
you to pieces.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Hi, good evening. Who's this?

Speaker 4 (02:47):
This is Shanna.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Shanna, tell me your story.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
I'm actually calling to request the song from my dad.
I graduated high school last year and I had a
rough summer, a lot of mistakes that I shouldn't have,
and attempted to go to college. I actually moved away
from my dad, and I attempted to go to college
and really tried and didn't work out, and I lost

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my focus on a lot of things. And my dad
really brought me back to what I really needed to
focus on, and that's, you know, getting somewhere in my life.
And then I am worth something. And he's just an
amazing man.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So did you get away from home and find yourself
a little overwhelmed? Yeah, unable to focus, unable to study,
unable to get up in the morning because you were depressed.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, it was really hard.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah. Well, you know some people, like some people can
do really well with change. Oh, if if you came
up to me today and said, I don't know how
to tell you this, but you got to move in
a week, I'd say we can't. We do it tomorrow. Yeah,
And I would be fine with that. If you said
that to my children. Some of my children, a couple

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of them would have a really hard time with that,
a really big meltdown. Yeah, And even if you gave
them three years to prepare, they couldn't prepare, exactly, because
that's just the way that we're made, you know, God
made us different. And if you're somebody that is a
homebody and is comfortable and secure in a certain environment,

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and then you're taken out of that environment, it's like
taking a fish out of water and wondering why it's
having a hard time flopping around there exactly. So I'm
glad that your dad understood that and didn't try to
put pressure on you to be somebody or not.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Oh no, he he told me. He was like, you know,
we're going to get you back on track. He's like,
take a year off, just breathe, and then he'll move
back over you know, to where we are, and then
you can go to school over here, and I'll help
you with everything. And he's just been so amazing. He's
my best friend.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
You're very blessed.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
I am. I talk to him every day, sometimes three
times a day, depending on what the situation is. That
he's just he's so.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Great Sandy, welcome. Tell me your story.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, Delilah, I am grateful, that's so grateful for a
second chance at love. I was married to my best
friend when I was seventeen years old, and after almost
forty years of marriage, I got to call at work
one day and my husband had died. And in spite
of having a great family and many wonderful friends and

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a supportive community of faith and wonderful co workers, I
had this huge hole in my heart. And I sold
our dream house and built mother in law suite onto
my daughter's house. And then five years later I was
reorganized out of my job, and again.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
I reorganized, don't you love the terminology.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Reorganized out of my job. So there I was, without
my husband, without my job, but again a very good
supporting group around me. But it just wasn't the same.
There wasn't that that warmness, that touching, that wonderful private,
intimate times. And I'm sixty two years old, and maybe
people should say, well, at sixty two, be grateful for

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what you had, But I still had this yearning to
have someone close in my life. Well, my daughter suggested
to me at one time that I call this gentleman
who was in her card club who had lost his
wife three and a half years before. And you know,
I was brought up in the old tradition, you know,
the girl don't call the guy. But I thought, you know,

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we could go to dinner and so what, And so
I called him and he was very grateful. I called,
and yes, we went out to dinner, and he asked
if he might call me again, and he did. We
went out again, and you know, in conversations we found
out that we had so much in common, so many
things of places that we had gone. But the most

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wonderful part of the whole thing was that he could
talk about his agness and I could talk about my tippy,
And that, to me is a very important thing, because
you know, between the two of us, we had ninety
years of wonderful marriage and not a lot of people
can say that. And so we are developing this very

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very close relationship. We have declared our love for each other.
We have so much in common. It feels so good.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Lord, bless you, thank you. What can I do for you?

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Leanne h misilialah. I just wanted to colle in and
request a song for all those people that went. They're
a horrible breakup and are finding themselves again. I recently
come out of a horrible breakup and I'm finally getting

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back to me five years later.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
So and taking care of you. Yes, good for you,
Good for you.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Sometimes you get two mixed up in a relationship and
it just does not go well.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
What was the moment where you finally said in your
healing process, you said it's been about five years. What
was the moment where you went, you know what, I'm
not going to stay in this painful place anymore. I'm
going to do this for me. Was there a time
where that happened?

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I was with him for five years, and finally I
just decided that, you know, I need to I need
to get back to thee And May about six months
after crying and crying myself to sleep and feeling bad
for myself, so I finally said enough enough, I got
to do this for me. I got to get myself
back together.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well you sound wonderful. You sound like you've gotten yourself
back together and you're enjoying life.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Yes, I'm trying to get there anyway.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I will play a song to help you ease on
down that road of life, that path of goodness. And
forgiveness and healing and realizing you are worth it. You
are worth it.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Well, thank you and I just want to thank you.
I've listened to you for years and you always just
you always just make my day.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Thank you, God, bless you. Have a great night, Honey,
you too, Bye bye. I so hope you have enjoyed
these radio moments as much as I enjoy bringing them
to you. I'll share more with you each weekday on
Hey It's Delilah.