October 29, 2024 • 9 mins
There is no perfect parenting. Raising children can be so challenging, but soooo rewarding! ~ Delilah
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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. Through yesterday, I
was talking with this new friend named Christine that God
(00:23):
has brought into my life since I moved two weeks
ago to help care for my husband who's facing some
health challenges and he's doing very very well after the surgery.
But the kids and I moved in with Papa, and
through that I met this beautiful woman, Christine, who came
to help clean the house, and we were getting to
(00:46):
know each other, and she was asking a lot of
really interesting questions that I don't get asked a lot.
She should be the interviewer, she should be the one
doing the show, because she was asking really good questions.
As we were getting to know each other a little bit,
and she was asking me questions about parenting and I said, oh, no,
(01:07):
my first child was perfect. She said mine too. She said,
I've never had to discipline my daughter. I said, my
first child was Isaiah. Never had to discipline him. And
I thought I was a great parent. She said me too.
I was only seventeen and I thought I was such
a good parent because my daughter was so perfect. And
then both of us looked at each other and laughed
(01:27):
because we knew what was coming next. We both had
more children, and we learned that no, no, no, I
am not the perfect parent. I'm not even a great parent,
and most days I'm not even a really good parent. Ah,
And God gave us both of us, Christine and myself,
and maybe you, if you're listening, some really challenging children,
(01:50):
really challenging children. Her questions were very good, and it
just made me laugh out loud thinking about my most
challenging children and that and how those kids caused my
faith to grow deeper.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hi, Missy, you've called the De La La Show. What
can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hi? I was hoping that you could play a song
from my daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What's your daughter's name?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Her name is Christina?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And what do you want to tell your daughter?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That I love her I no matter what's going on,
her father and I are with her one hundred percent,
and that she means everything to me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Missy? How old is Christina?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
She's thirteen thirteen and going through tough times, hard choices,
little bit of anger.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, all of the above, and she's going through some
really rough times. And sometimes I have a worse time
than she does.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So she doesn't turn it outward and scream like I
used to. She turns it inward and gets quiet like
my sister did.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh that's even more scary, Yeah, because when they turn
it inward, then it becomes depression and sadness and you
don't know how to reach him.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's right, it's growing up way too fast. I just
wanted to stay little for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But she's not going to.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
All you can do is give her roots and wings,
roots to know that she's grounded and has a forever
home and wings to fly.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm trying to do my best.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Good luck, God, bless you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Randy, Hi, welcome to the Delilah Show. Who are you
thinking about this evening?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
My son Charlie, he's just turning two months old.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
He had kind of a rough, rocky start. He was
three and a half weeks early and spent about a
week and a half in the ICEEU unit, and it
was kind a touch and go for a while. He
was having some troubles breathing and got that all taken
(04:06):
care of and he is at home and growing extremely well.
And doing remarkably well. I also have an eighteen year
old son that is with his mother and I have
not seen him in roughly ten years.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, I'm glad that God had his hand upon your baby,
and I hope that he resolves the situation with your
older baby and that soon you'll call me with a
great story of reconciliation and love and time to make up.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I will do that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Pat Hi, this is Delilah.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How are you good?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
How are you tea?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm wonderful. Tell me your story.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Oh, I just wanted to share. I listened to you
all the time, and I listened to how many different
stories people call in, and I had one. I think
there might be some hope and inspiration to some hurting
people out there. We have a son who was just
turned thirty five years old. He was in a violent
motorcycle accident and actually did die on the scene of
(05:22):
the accident and was brought back by the paramedics that
came and took brought him back to life. He had multiple, many,
multiple injuries, just things that you could never imagine. And
at the time this happened, he was estranged from our
whole family for seven years.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And why he's just.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
A rebel boy out doing his thing and angry at
the world and just totally different than everybody else in
the family and decided he was going to just go
and do a thing and stay away from all of us.
And did have a helmet on, and the helmet was
flying off of him, and the injuries were unreal, just unreal.
(06:06):
They life lighted him and took him to the trauma
center in our area, which happens to be where my daughter,
his sister, is a trauma nurse. And long story short,
she ended up taking care of her brother and he
had not talked to her either for the seven years,
and there were so many prayers gone up for him.
(06:27):
And when he finally came through this and recognized everyone,
it was probably like the Prodigal Sun's story. He just
threw his hands in the ear and says, Mama, I
love you. What did I do? I'm back, I love you.
I'll never leave you again. And he has been reconciled
to our whole family and a different person than he.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Used to be.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
He told me about the story that he died, and
he said he remembered things. Well, you don't know what
to believe, you know, you don't know whether to believe
that it was true or they had injury speaking.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Wait a second, did you just say that, after seven
years your son is reconciled you? Oh, yeah, what difference
does it make how God worked that out, whether it
was actually.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You know, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I don't Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I mean, oh, I've met many many people that have
felt like they were on their way to the other
side and then realize that, no, they weren't done doing
what they.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Need to do. Here.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
He said that to us, and then my daughter, who
is the nurse, had started to cry when she heard
the story and said to me, Mama, it's true. He
did die on the scene. I didn't want you to know.
She says it was true. She wouldn't tell us that
part that was in his records. And he has been
a different person. He is ninety percent back to where
he was. He is so rehabilitated and he's doing fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This is Sinder Ginger. Welcome. This is Delilah who's on
your heart tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My stepdaughter Laura. It's her birthday today and she is
in a lockdown facility for drug rehabilitation, and my heart
is so full of hope for her for the first
time in five years. And I just wanted to say
happy birthday, we love you and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So how old is Laura today?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Laura's twenty and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
She's been battling an addiction for five years.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Or probably longer.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Wow, well, good for her. Did she do this voluntarily?
Did she say, you know what, I'm tired of living
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I need help?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It was sort of half and half.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
So there was a little intervention, yes, but now her
heart is receptive to this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Very Oh good, very I believe. I believe in interventions.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
A lot of people say, well, you can't really get
help until you make that decision. But I know a
lot of people who've gotten into recovery because of family interventions.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Well it was it was something like it wasn't really family,
but it was to motivate her to be able to
keep her little boy.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's pretty good motive it is.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
And you know that God.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Bless her that she decided to vote for her family
and her child instead of her addiction.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Amen. And I'm just hoping that she is listening to
the radio right now, and I just want to pass
the phone over to her dad. So he can say
he loves her too, Is that all right?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Hello, Hi Dad, Hi, So tell me how much you
love your little girl.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
More than anyone can ever know. She did this voluntarily
on her own, and I'm so proud of her that
I'm just my heart is just exploding inside.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
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
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. Through yesterday, I
was talking with this new friend named Christine that God
(00:23):
has brought into my life since I moved two weeks
ago to help care for my husband who's facing some
health challenges and he's doing very very well after the surgery.
But the kids and I moved in with Papa, and
through that I met this beautiful woman, Christine, who came
to help clean the house, and we were getting to
(00:46):
know each other, and she was asking a lot of
really interesting questions that I don't get asked a lot.
She should be the interviewer, she should be the one
doing the show, because she was asking really good questions.
As we were getting to know each other a little bit,
and she was asking me questions about parenting and I said, oh, no,
(01:07):
my first child was perfect. She said mine too. She said,
I've never had to discipline my daughter. I said, my
first child was Isaiah. Never had to discipline him. And
I thought I was a great parent. She said me too.
I was only seventeen and I thought I was such
a good parent because my daughter was so perfect. And
then both of us looked at each other and laughed
(01:27):
because we knew what was coming next. We both had
more children, and we learned that no, no, no, I
am not the perfect parent. I'm not even a great parent,
and most days I'm not even a really good parent. Ah,
And God gave us both of us, Christine and myself,
and maybe you, if you're listening, some really challenging children,
(01:50):
really challenging children. Her questions were very good, and it
just made me laugh out loud thinking about my most
challenging children and that and how those kids caused my
faith to grow deeper.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hi, Missy, you've called the De La La Show. What
can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hi? I was hoping that you could play a song
from my daughter.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What's your daughter's name?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Her name is Christina?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And what do you want to tell your daughter?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That I love her I no matter what's going on,
her father and I are with her one hundred percent,
and that she means everything to me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Missy? How old is Christina?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
She's thirteen thirteen and going through tough times, hard choices,
little bit of anger.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, all of the above, and she's going through some
really rough times. And sometimes I have a worse time
than she does.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
So she doesn't turn it outward and scream like I
used to. She turns it inward and gets quiet like
my sister did.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh that's even more scary, Yeah, because when they turn
it inward, then it becomes depression and sadness and you
don't know how to reach him.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That's right, it's growing up way too fast. I just
wanted to stay little for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But she's not going to.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
All you can do is give her roots and wings,
roots to know that she's grounded and has a forever
home and wings to fly.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm trying to do my best.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Good luck, God, bless you, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Randy, Hi, welcome to the Delilah Show. Who are you
thinking about this evening?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
My son Charlie, he's just turning two months old.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
He had kind of a rough, rocky start. He was
three and a half weeks early and spent about a
week and a half in the ICEEU unit, and it
was kind a touch and go for a while. He
was having some troubles breathing and got that all taken
(04:06):
care of and he is at home and growing extremely well.
And doing remarkably well. I also have an eighteen year
old son that is with his mother and I have
not seen him in roughly ten years.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well, I'm glad that God had his hand upon your baby,
and I hope that he resolves the situation with your
older baby and that soon you'll call me with a
great story of reconciliation and love and time to make up.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I will do that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Pat Hi, this is Delilah.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How are you good?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
How are you tea?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I'm wonderful. Tell me your story.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Oh, I just wanted to share. I listened to you
all the time, and I listened to how many different
stories people call in, and I had one. I think
there might be some hope and inspiration to some hurting
people out there. We have a son who was just
turned thirty five years old. He was in a violent
motorcycle accident and actually did die on the scene of
(05:22):
the accident and was brought back by the paramedics that
came and took brought him back to life. He had multiple, many,
multiple injuries, just things that you could never imagine. And
at the time this happened, he was estranged from our
whole family for seven years.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And why he's just.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
A rebel boy out doing his thing and angry at
the world and just totally different than everybody else in
the family and decided he was going to just go
and do a thing and stay away from all of us.
And did have a helmet on, and the helmet was
flying off of him, and the injuries were unreal, just unreal.
(06:06):
They life lighted him and took him to the trauma
center in our area, which happens to be where my daughter,
his sister, is a trauma nurse. And long story short,
she ended up taking care of her brother and he
had not talked to her either for the seven years,
and there were so many prayers gone up for him.
(06:27):
And when he finally came through this and recognized everyone,
it was probably like the Prodigal Sun's story. He just
threw his hands in the ear and says, Mama, I
love you. What did I do? I'm back, I love you.
I'll never leave you again. And he has been reconciled
to our whole family and a different person than he.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Used to be.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
He told me about the story that he died, and
he said he remembered things. Well, you don't know what
to believe, you know, you don't know whether to believe
that it was true or they had injury speaking.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Wait a second, did you just say that, after seven
years your son is reconciled you? Oh, yeah, what difference
does it make how God worked that out, whether it
was actually.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You know, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I don't Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I mean, oh, I've met many many people that have
felt like they were on their way to the other
side and then realize that, no, they weren't done doing
what they.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Need to do. Here.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
He said that to us, and then my daughter, who
is the nurse, had started to cry when she heard
the story and said to me, Mama, it's true. He
did die on the scene. I didn't want you to know.
She says it was true. She wouldn't tell us that
part that was in his records. And he has been
a different person. He is ninety percent back to where
he was. He is so rehabilitated and he's doing fabulous.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
This is Sinder Ginger. Welcome. This is Delilah who's on
your heart tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My stepdaughter Laura. It's her birthday today and she is
in a lockdown facility for drug rehabilitation, and my heart
is so full of hope for her for the first
time in five years. And I just wanted to say
happy birthday, we love you and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So how old is Laura today?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Laura's twenty and.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
She's been battling an addiction for five years.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Or probably longer.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Wow, well, good for her. Did she do this voluntarily?
Did she say, you know what, I'm tired of living
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I need help?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
It was sort of half and half.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
So there was a little intervention, yes, but now her
heart is receptive to this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Very Oh good, very I believe. I believe in interventions.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
A lot of people say, well, you can't really get
help until you make that decision. But I know a
lot of people who've gotten into recovery because of family interventions.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
Well it was it was something like it wasn't really family,
but it was to motivate her to be able to
keep her little boy.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's pretty good motive it is.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
And you know that God.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Bless her that she decided to vote for her family
and her child instead of her addiction.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Amen. And I'm just hoping that she is listening to
the radio right now, and I just want to pass
the phone over to her dad. So he can say
he loves her too, Is that all right?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Hello, Hi Dad, Hi, So tell me how much you
love your little girl.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
More than anyone can ever know. She did this voluntarily
on her own, and I'm so proud of her that
I'm just my heart is just exploding inside.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
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
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