SELF WORTH: You are precious.

What if you lived your life knowing, unquestioningly, how very precious you were? Would it be different? ~ Delilah

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Episode Transcript

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. What if I
told you that you are worth more than precious gems,

(00:25):
than diamonds and rubies and pure gold. What if I
told you your life, your experiences, your hopes and dreams,
your talents are worth more than a truckload of pure gold.
It's true, your life is worth more than diamonds, rubies,

(00:51):
emeralds gold. And what if you knew that and lived
it in the core of your being. Hi, welcome to
the Delilah Shall who's this.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yaeskey?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeskita, Yeskita Welcome? What can I do for you?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I wasn a t year relationship with a soldier and
the army. He pretty much broke my heart. He was
actually coming for nine days to come within my family
and myself, and the relationship just ended and then a
big heartbreak on my end.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
So he didn't really give you any good reason why
he was jumping out of this off the ship.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I think it was a constant fight that we were
having because long distance is it's very hard.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
So are you sad because you really loved him and
you missed him and you wanted to be with him.
Or are you sad because you had dreams and hopes
of how things would be and now you know they're
not going to be that way.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm sad because I was married warrant and my heart
was shut down and he opened up that door that
was closed for so long, and yeah, my heart was destroyed.
I mean I had dreams, I had desires, I had hope,
I had time.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
It sounds to me like you were all in and
he was only ten percent or twenty percent all in.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I don't know what triggered. It is very hard because
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because you love him, but you deserved somebody who is
stupid in love with you.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Thank you, Delilah.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I know you are taking his walking out of your
life as a sign that you aren't worth fighting for,
that you aren't beautiful and precious and the best thing
in the world. And honey, you are.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Hi, Amanda, this is Delilah.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
I just need some advice. I'm sixteen. Told when I
turned sixteen that I would be able to date, and
then after I turned sixteen that I was told that
I'm not allowed to have a boyfriend. I'm allowed to date,
you know, as friends, and I'm not allowed to have
a relationship. But then about a month ago, I met
this guy. He's the same age as me, and right

(03:16):
from the start, we talk really easily, and we you know,
we started out as friends, just dating. But I feel
like I'm deceiving my parents just by telling them that
we're only friends because we call each other boyfriend and
girlfriend and we're going out. I feel like I'm going,
you know, behind my parents back and doing it.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Okay, first, I'm going to give you my mother, Delilah's perspective.
I believe that when they're old enough and mature enough
to have a partner, they should ask God to bring
that person into their life and they should court them
and have a relationship.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And then get married.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, okay, that's the mother perspective in me.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I was also a teenager at one time, and
I always start sneaking around behind my parents back at
a very early age because I was kind of guy crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, So from from.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Your perspective, I can understand how you want a special
friend and you don't want to deceive your parents and
from your parents' perspective. I can understand how they don't
want you to get too intimately involved because they don't
want you to make decisions that will affect your future.
So if I were you, I would number one, be
honest with your folks, because carrying around guilt and shame
isn't going to help anybody. And say, you know what,

(04:22):
I feel like I'm deceiving you because I have a
very special place in my heart for this person. But
I would also honor the request in if they don't
want you, you know, being.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Alone with him a lot, then don't be okay.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I mean, you can certainly have a great time and
go places and have fun and develop your friendship and
this if this is who you're to marry in the future,
it'll happen. But if they are afraid that, you know,
you're going to go out too late do and do
the things that.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
I did at your age, Yeah, well what if I
know that stuff like that isn't going to happen because
I've talked to him about it and I know we
won't do anything.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
You know guess what I as a teenager, I had
that talk too, and guess what happened?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh man, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, Yeah, I did things that I would give anything
in the world to go back and undo.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Okay, I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I nearly destroyed my life and a couple of other
people's by making bad choices at your age. And it's
not because I'm a bad person. It's because I was young,
and I was passionate, and I was in love. And
when you're young and passionate and in love, it's like
trying to stop a freight train, you know. Yeah, I'm

(05:35):
not saying don't love him. I'm not saying don't develop
your relationship, don't be friends. Certainly do those things. Don't
put yourself in a position of making a bad choice.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
Okay, okay, Hi, thank you, Bye bye bye.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Hi, Welcome to the Delight Show.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Who is this Hi?

Speaker 6 (06:02):
This is Mellow.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Welcome aboard, Milow. What are you most grateful for tonight?

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (06:09):
I'm grateful that I've been able to work.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
And what do you do? What is your job? What
is your career?

Speaker 6 (06:18):
I'm a true driver. I go around the United States.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
That is hard, hard work. I am so grateful for
every truck driver I know. If I bought it, you
brought it, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Delilah. I want to thank you, and I was wondering
if you can, you can play a song for all
the ladies that I call you, asking you for advice,
asking you for a kind of word. For those ladies
who have a boyfriend or a husband who are mean

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to them, who are abuse them, who called them names.
They need to know that not everybody is the same,
that there's people there that's different, that they can find
somebody who can love them and appreciate them the way
they are.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Are you one of those kind hearted men that's very
tender and very sweet.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, ma'am. You have to see every woman a reflection
of your mother, a reflection of your sisters, and a
reflection of your daughters.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I will play a song for all those ladies. Milo,
thank you for calling.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Thank you, Delilah.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Thank you, Hi, Delilah. My name is Cindy.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
How are you, Hi, Cindy. I am wonderful who's on
your heart tonight?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
His name is Dan and after many years of dysfunctional relationship,
I met him last April for coffee and the day
turned out to be stepping out long and we're like
two peas in a pod. He is a wonderful man

(08:06):
has never said one unkind word out of his mouth
to me. He loves me, he's supportive, he's encouraging, and
it's just such a wonderful feeling after so many years
of being alone. But it was worth the way it
came to me when it was time. And just want

(08:28):
other people to know that there is someone out there
for them, and when the time is right, it will happen.
So don't give up, don't.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Doubt, and don't settle. That's the one thing I want
to tell women is, you know, you think time's running out,
you think your biological clock is sticking, You think all
your girlfriends are getting married, blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. And so you jump into situations that you
know they don't love you, or they're not committed to you,
or they're not your emotional or mental equal, and then

(09:00):
two or three of the years down the road, you're wondering,
you know why they're texting your best friend right?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
And you know, this guy challenges my mind and makes
me want to be a better person and just brings
out all the good in my heart, in my soul,
he brings out and it's just such a blessing to
wait and be with the right person. Like you say,

(09:28):
don't settle.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
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.