September 9, 2024 • 10 mins
Don't WAIT for some thing or some one to make you happy. Chose happiness today! ~ 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.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Know a lot of people are waiting, waiting to finish
their degree, waiting to get an education, waiting to pay
off some bills, waiting for the tax return to come,
waiting for something to make them happy or someone to
make them happy.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Stop waiting to be happy. You're not going to be
happy once you get that degree. You're not going to
be happy. Well, you will be happy when you meet
someone special for a time, and then it might fall apart.
But you cannot wait to be happy. You have to
choose to be happy today. You have to choose to
(01:01):
follow your dreams today. Don't put it off until the
house is clean, till the floor is swept, until the
laundry is done, until you meet mister or miss wonderful.
Don't put it off. Choose happiness. Choose to have joy
in your heart. Choose to be a dreamer. You're going
(01:23):
to be laughed at, so what choose to dream?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Anyway?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Hi Deliah, this is Nolan.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Nolan. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I hope you can help me sort out my life
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, So tell me your dilemma and I will see
what I can do for you.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
My dilemma is, I'm twenty years old. I just got
laid off in the career of my dreams. I'm moving
back home to a very small town of about eight
thousand people, and it's very hard I find work up here.
This is kind of all into one dilemma. I'm also
(02:06):
twenty years old and I have an eleven year old son.
The way this happened was is my parents divorced two
years ago after twenty three years of marriage. When my
father left, I was dealing with mental, emotional, physical, and
sexual abuse from him. If dinner was not on the
(02:26):
table by a specific time, he would throw me down
the stairs.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So who is the eleven year old child, my little brother?
So why is your mother not raising her son?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I felt when the whole divorce was going on, he
needed a male role model in his life that he
could count on, and I asked the courts for my
father's parental rights. I was granted those two months ago.
My mother right now is working two full time jobs
and she cleans three businesses. Every weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So you moved back.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're helping mom with your little brother, You're getting counseling,
you're working through all the issues. Sounds to me like
you're doing exactly what you need to be doing.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Nolan, Just to me, it doesn't feel like I'm doing enough.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, that's because you're twenty years old, and when you're
twenty years old, you're in a rush to get everything done.
Now it takes time, you know, everything takes time. You
got to put one foot in front of the other.
And anything worth having is worth waiting for.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I've want that through my own personal relationship.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
With Let me find a song for you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Thank you, Dole.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Hi, good evening.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Who's this good evening? This is lady Irma.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lady Irma? Yes, Now, how have you earned the title lady?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well? Some use it as a title, but I use
it as a name. I am the president and founder
of a day here in kindergarten in West Africa, Liberia.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're kidding me, know, So who's running the school while
you're here?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh, my husband and my kids are back home, and
then we do have voluntary staff. Our own children were
educated right there, got their basic education from the precious
Gift International School and these college graduates now, oh, then
(04:36):
they're volunteered as service. And then we have other volunteers too,
who are there to support the school in my absence.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So let's play a song for everybody who has been
in that sort of situation. How's that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, that would be beautiful. I would be very wonderful
if you play that song. I listen to your program
all the time. If I that's my station, everybody comes
in here and they're like, what station is that? I've
never heard that? You know music all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, if you go to our website, you can click
onto that little icon for Point Hope, and who knows,
maybe you'll see some of your relatives in the pictures
of Bootom Burhm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, well then I'm gonna do that, and I would
like to send all of them. I love into you too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
All right, God bless you, Hans.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Thank you you too. Bye bye now.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hi, thanks for calling. This is Delilah who's with me
on the phone line. Next, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'd like you to play a song for my mom.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
All right, what can I play for mama?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
First?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Tell me about your mama.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
She's a wonderful woman. My brother's and I in the
past four years have been through a lot in their
lives and she's been there for us. You know, She's
really a great person and she was born to be
a mom.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
How old are you?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I am twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And did it take you a while to come to
this realization that mom was sainted or did you always
have this kind of wisdom.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I've been through a lot of things in terms of
physically in my life, and she's always been there for me.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So a lot of illnesses, a lot of problems that
she had to kind of help you through, a lot.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Of illnesses and a lot of problems that she's kind
of helped me through. And now I'm working at my
master's degree and I'm thriving, and I would not be
doing this without her.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So and what are you going to get your masters?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
In special education?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Could that perhaps be motivated by the fact that you
had a lot of obstacles to overcome?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Definitely is a factor there. I work with autistic kids.
Although I do not have autism, I feel like in
some I relate to them, you know, in the frustration
that's are.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Coming from, and and autism is rampant right now. They
don't know why it is.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
They don't know why at all, and there's a lot
of theories out there, and it's a big, huge mystery.
One in ten right now boys is diagnosed with autism.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's just amazing. It's like one in ten thousand kids
is blind, but one in ten or twenty is diagnosed
with some form of autism these days.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Right, right, So how did this happen?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
They don't know. You know, they think that the increase
in it is probably due to better being able to
diagnose it. You know, we're pinpointing it more in terms
of what it looks like, but they really can't tell.
It's the sad thing, you know, that we're hopefully can
be able to find an answer to one day.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, thank you for caring about it. Let me play
a song for your mama, your hero.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Thank you so much. I appreciated gun.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This is Delilah.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hello Delilah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
My name is Laura, Laura.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What can I do for you this evening?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well? I was just calling.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
I've had a rough summer this year. I'm a single parent,
I lost my job and just kind of trying to
find my place right now of where God wants me
and why I'm supposed to be and what's right for
you know, my little boy and I and I guess
just need some encouragements. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So what are your passions in life? What do you
enjoy doing? What? What kind of work do you do
you love?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
In the past, I've been I've a fish. Work was
my thing and all.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
But and you're you've been a social worker in the past.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uh huh, like with foster kids, special needs kids, what
kind of situations families?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Both, I mean I worked with mentally ill I've worked
in human services with child abuse cases.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And so you have a heart to help others, Yeah,
to nurture others. Well, you know what your job is
to do, to make yourself available. Say God, I will
go where you want me to go. Just you know,
lead my steps and here I am use me wherever.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You want me, and he will right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Not that you don't have to go out there and
put out your resumes and go on interviews.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You have to do all that, do your best and
let him do the rest.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And just because you may be at a job for
six months, that doesn't and then it ends. It doesn't
mean you weren't supposed to be there, But maybe you
were supposed to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For a time, for a purpose.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Very few people that I know stay in the same
place forever, you know, just like a river is always flowing,
God is a living being and it's a moving sort
of thing. So maybe he might move you here one
day and six months later someplace else. That doesn't mean
that you made a mistake, or that you misunderstood his
will or that you were wrong. It could just mean
(09:36):
that he opened a door for a short season and
then he closed it.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Maybe there's just.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
One person he wanted you to touch, to bless, to heal,
to help, and once you did that, he moves you
to something else. True, All right, right, God bless you
and keep your chin up.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
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 2 (10:07):
Del
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.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Know a lot of people are waiting, waiting to finish
their degree, waiting to get an education, waiting to pay
off some bills, waiting for the tax return to come,
waiting for something to make them happy or someone to
make them happy.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Stop waiting to be happy. You're not going to be
happy once you get that degree. You're not going to
be happy. Well, you will be happy when you meet
someone special for a time, and then it might fall apart.
But you cannot wait to be happy. You have to
choose to be happy today. You have to choose to
(01:01):
follow your dreams today. Don't put it off until the
house is clean, till the floor is swept, until the
laundry is done, until you meet mister or miss wonderful.
Don't put it off. Choose happiness. Choose to have joy
in your heart. Choose to be a dreamer. You're going
(01:23):
to be laughed at, so what choose to dream?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Anyway?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Hi Deliah, this is Nolan.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Nolan. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I hope you can help me sort out my life
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Okay, So tell me your dilemma and I will see
what I can do for you.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
My dilemma is, I'm twenty years old. I just got
laid off in the career of my dreams. I'm moving
back home to a very small town of about eight
thousand people, and it's very hard I find work up here.
This is kind of all into one dilemma. I'm also
(02:06):
twenty years old and I have an eleven year old son.
The way this happened was is my parents divorced two
years ago after twenty three years of marriage. When my
father left, I was dealing with mental, emotional, physical, and
sexual abuse from him. If dinner was not on the
(02:26):
table by a specific time, he would throw me down
the stairs.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So who is the eleven year old child, my little brother?
So why is your mother not raising her son?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I felt when the whole divorce was going on, he
needed a male role model in his life that he
could count on, and I asked the courts for my
father's parental rights. I was granted those two months ago.
My mother right now is working two full time jobs
and she cleans three businesses. Every weekend.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So you moved back.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You're helping mom with your little brother, You're getting counseling,
you're working through all the issues. Sounds to me like
you're doing exactly what you need to be doing.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Nolan, Just to me, it doesn't feel like I'm doing enough.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, that's because you're twenty years old, and when you're
twenty years old, you're in a rush to get everything done.
Now it takes time, you know, everything takes time. You
got to put one foot in front of the other.
And anything worth having is worth waiting for.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I've want that through my own personal relationship.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
With Let me find a song for you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Thank you, Dole.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Hi, good evening.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Who's this good evening? This is lady Irma.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lady Irma? Yes, Now, how have you earned the title lady?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well? Some use it as a title, but I use
it as a name. I am the president and founder
of a day here in kindergarten in West Africa, Liberia.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're kidding me, know, So who's running the school while
you're here?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Oh, my husband and my kids are back home, and
then we do have voluntary staff. Our own children were
educated right there, got their basic education from the precious
Gift International School and these college graduates now, oh, then
(04:36):
they're volunteered as service. And then we have other volunteers too,
who are there to support the school in my absence.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So let's play a song for everybody who has been
in that sort of situation. How's that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, that would be beautiful. I would be very wonderful
if you play that song. I listen to your program
all the time. If I that's my station, everybody comes
in here and they're like, what station is that? I've
never heard that? You know music all the time.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, if you go to our website, you can click
onto that little icon for Point Hope, and who knows,
maybe you'll see some of your relatives in the pictures
of Bootom Burhm.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, well then I'm gonna do that, and I would
like to send all of them. I love into you too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
All right, God bless you, Hans.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Thank you you too. Bye bye now.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hi, thanks for calling. This is Delilah who's with me
on the phone line. Next, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
I'd like you to play a song for my mom.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
All right, what can I play for mama?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
First?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Tell me about your mama.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
She's a wonderful woman. My brother's and I in the
past four years have been through a lot in their
lives and she's been there for us. You know, She's
really a great person and she was born to be
a mom.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
How old are you?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I am twenty six.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And did it take you a while to come to
this realization that mom was sainted or did you always
have this kind of wisdom.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I've been through a lot of things in terms of
physically in my life, and she's always been there for me.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
So a lot of illnesses, a lot of problems that
she had to kind of help you through, a lot.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Of illnesses and a lot of problems that she's kind
of helped me through. And now I'm working at my
master's degree and I'm thriving, and I would not be
doing this without her.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So and what are you going to get your masters?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
In special education?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Could that perhaps be motivated by the fact that you
had a lot of obstacles to overcome?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Definitely is a factor there. I work with autistic kids.
Although I do not have autism, I feel like in
some I relate to them, you know, in the frustration
that's are.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Coming from, and and autism is rampant right now. They
don't know why it is.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
They don't know why at all, and there's a lot
of theories out there, and it's a big, huge mystery.
One in ten right now boys is diagnosed with autism.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's just amazing. It's like one in ten thousand kids
is blind, but one in ten or twenty is diagnosed
with some form of autism these days.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Right, right, So how did this happen?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
They don't know. You know, they think that the increase
in it is probably due to better being able to
diagnose it. You know, we're pinpointing it more in terms
of what it looks like, but they really can't tell.
It's the sad thing, you know, that we're hopefully can
be able to find an answer to one day.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, thank you for caring about it. Let me play
a song for your mama, your hero.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Thank you so much. I appreciated gun.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
This is Delilah.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hello Delilah.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
My name is Laura, Laura.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What can I do for you this evening?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well? I was just calling.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
I've had a rough summer this year. I'm a single parent,
I lost my job and just kind of trying to
find my place right now of where God wants me
and why I'm supposed to be and what's right for
you know, my little boy and I and I guess
just need some encouragements. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So what are your passions in life? What do you
enjoy doing? What? What kind of work do you do
you love?
Speaker 6 (08:15):
In the past, I've been I've a fish. Work was
my thing and all.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
But and you're you've been a social worker in the past.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uh huh, like with foster kids, special needs kids, what
kind of situations families?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Both, I mean I worked with mentally ill I've worked
in human services with child abuse cases.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And so you have a heart to help others, Yeah,
to nurture others. Well, you know what your job is
to do, to make yourself available. Say God, I will
go where you want me to go. Just you know,
lead my steps and here I am use me wherever.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You want me, and he will right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Not that you don't have to go out there and
put out your resumes and go on interviews.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You have to do all that, do your best and
let him do the rest.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And just because you may be at a job for
six months, that doesn't and then it ends. It doesn't
mean you weren't supposed to be there, But maybe you
were supposed to be there.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For a time, for a purpose.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Very few people that I know stay in the same
place forever, you know, just like a river is always flowing,
God is a living being and it's a moving sort
of thing. So maybe he might move you here one
day and six months later someplace else. That doesn't mean
that you made a mistake, or that you misunderstood his
will or that you were wrong. It could just mean
(09:36):
that he opened a door for a short season and
then he closed it.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Maybe there's just.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
One person he wanted you to touch, to bless, to heal,
to help, and once you did that, he moves you
to something else. True, All right, right, God bless you
and keep your chin up.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
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 2 (10:07):
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