My roses, those gorgeous blooms I wait for all winter, can wound me so terribly with their thorns. Beauty and love come with crowns of thorns. Familiar? ~ Delilah
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode Transcript
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. I got to
share this story with you. I have to. It's so important.
(00:23):
I heard a message the other day. I was watching
a little sermon, if you will, young African American man,
a young black man, was talking about a crown of thorns,
and if you know, you know about the crown of
thorns and how it was meant to be an insult,
(00:45):
meant to mock somebody. And as I was listening to
this message, I looked out my kitchen window, and I
have a thousand roses still in my garden, and there's
one right outside my kitchen window, and then beyond it
there's probably ten more that are seven feet tall and
(01:05):
still covered in roses. And as I was listening to
this message about a crown of thorns that was meant
to mock someone as they were dying, I thought about
my roses and how much I love them, how beautiful
they are. But every time I go to cut some
(01:28):
and make a buquet, guess what I get really wounded
by the thorns. And I was looking out the window
at my roses, and it was a still day. It
was yesterday morning. There was no wind, and I was
thinking about that story about the crown of thorns and
how beautiful roses are though they have wicked thorns. And
(01:52):
as I was thinking on that, the rose right outside
my window began to bob. It was like it was
waving at me. And then these white butterflies came from
I don't know where and started swirling around this one rose.
And then the hummingbird that always eats from the feeder
(02:13):
right outside my window showed up and was by the rose.
And I'm looking at the other roses and they're not moving.
Just this one perfect rose is waving. It's like it
was waving at me. It's like what was saying, Yeah,
I'm here, I hear you, I feel you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Beauty.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Love comes with thorns, children come with thorns and heartbreak.
And as I was thinking on that, it's like Heaven
opened up and embraced me in that moment.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Hi Sherry, Hi Delilah, thank you for calling. Tell me
what's on your heart tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
A little bit of everything. A lot of trials and
tribulations have been taking place, and a couple of days ago,
I felt like I had really hit rock bottom with
my personal life, work, the whole nine yards. I was
at the end of my rope and I had never
felt so low in all my life. And all I
(03:16):
could do was find myself driving around.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Finking crazy thoughts.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Extremely beyond anything that I thought that I would ever
be capable of thinking of. And I was driving around
and I was crying, and I'm sure that people next
to me thought I was just losing my mind, because
you were, I absolutely and I was letting it show.
And I wasn't ashamed because I had nothing. I felt
I had nothing left. I was done. And I was
sitting at a stoplight and mind you, on a busy
(03:44):
street in where I live, and I was crying out
to God. I said, God, I can't do this anymore.
And if you are real, and if you hear me,
please give me a sign. And Delilah, I was. I
made the turn onto this busy street. Mind you, there's
cars in front of me, cars behind me, and a
white dove out of nowhere just flies in front of me.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Tears tears That sign enough for you, sharing I could
not guy, Just when I thought I couldn't cry any harder,
it got a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But hopefully tears of joy at that point.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You know, I knew then that I was going to be.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, Tiffany, Hi, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I just wanted to call and tell you about my
favorite police.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Your favorite place is where?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yes, it's called the Garden of Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Tell me about the Garden of Angels. It sounds beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Uh, it's gorgeous. A lady who's a very good friend
of mine now she runs it and her mission is
all about love, which I thought you could relate to
very luck and I know you have a very similar mission.
She has this beautiful garden. She opens up to the public,
but they do like a lot of deliveries to nursing
(05:12):
homes or you know, hospitals or just random people to
come and just pick flowers. It's free, it's for a donation.
It's a really great place. She does a lot of
suicide awareness, mental health stuff. Just a great place. And
then last year, before we were even engaged, she offered
for us to get married there. So my husband and
(05:36):
I are coming up on our one year anniversary next week,
so I just wanted to do a little shout out
for the Garden and for my husband.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Well, happy anniversary, and thank you for sharing that about
the Angel Garden. I love, love, love to see different
gardens when I'm traveling, so I'm going to put that
on my list of places I have to see.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
She also opens it up in the winter and then
she lights it up and does like a candlelight walk
at night.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's super sweet, very very sweet. And let me play
a song for you and your hobby. What's his name?
His name is John, John, and Tiffany. Next time you
go to the Angel Garden, hold hands and take a
walk and think of me.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I will thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, good night.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Hi Delilah, this is Pepper.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Pepper, welcome. What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
About two and a half years ago, so I'm a
nature freak. So I was out on a nature walk
by the river, and before I knew it, actually, I
found myself down a cliff about fifteen to twenty feet
and I didn't know what had happened, and basically put
it in a nutshell hair I'd fallen down this clip.
(07:00):
I don't quite remember it all, but my head got
cracked open. My right collar bone was broken, but the
left side of my back was broken in two spots
of a compression fracture. Literally, I said, God, please help me,
and I found the strength to climb up that cliff
that I had fallen down.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
With a broken back, a broken collarbone.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
And a head injury.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And a head injury.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Yeah, next thing I knew, I was in an ambulance.
And the next thing I knew was in the hospital
for about two or three weeks and had no memory
of what had happened. And it was really a horrible
experience at the time, but it's a miracle because I
was there. I couldn't remember my name, my phone number,
my mom's number, I couldn't remember any friends numbers or anything.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And so how long did it take to get your
memory back?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
Well, that kind of happened about it over about a times,
kind of like probably a year or two. I mean,
not my memory of like who I was and all
that kind of stuff, but of what actually happened, you
know what I mean. Wow, Yeah, I don't know how
to explain that, but but the memory of actually what
happened started coming back about a year or two, but
probably within the three weeks of being in the hospital,
(08:07):
I finally started remembering that i'd lived in this certain
state or wherever, you know, all that kind of stuff.
Oh my words, Yeah, and I just have to.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So now when you walk along the river, are you
a little more cautious?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You bet? You bet.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But this hasn't deterred you from loving the beauty of
nature and all that God has created outdoors. I hope.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I cannot tell you what it does to me. It's
the most peaceful thing I think I've ever experienced in
my life. And I just attribute it all to well,
just to to God.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And I thank God that you're okay, and I hope
that you continue to go for beautiful walks.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Thanks, Delilah.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We do have a lot hoping
Host
Delilah
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.