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When God Calls You · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Welcome, Welcome aboard, Welcome back. If you are a newcomer,
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  Speaker 2: welcome for the first time to have a Little Faith
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  Speaker 2: with Delilah. If you're an old friend, welcome back. You
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  Speaker 2: know the rules, There aren't any rules. Come as you are,
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  Speaker 2: make yourself at home, fix yourself a cup of tea.
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  Speaker 2: I am here on this podcast to share my faith,
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  Speaker 2: to encourage you. My faith leads me, leads me and
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  Speaker 2: everything that I do in my role as a mom,
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  Speaker 2: in my role as a wife, a sister, a friend,
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  Speaker 2: a grandmam, a radio host. I cannot separate what I
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  Speaker 2: do and who I am from my faith. That would
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  Speaker 2: be like separating my lungs out from my body and
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  Speaker 2: try to live without them. My faith is the air
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  Speaker 2: that I breathe, It's the heartbeat in my chest. It
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  Speaker 2: helps to form every thought that I think. This episode
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  Speaker 2: of Have a Little Faith with Delilah is all about
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  Speaker 2: how we listen to the Almighty when he calls us
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  Speaker 2: to something, how we hear his voice, how we trust,
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  Speaker 2: how we have faith that it's going to work out.
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  Speaker 2: The trick is that it can sometimes be scary, really scary,
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  Speaker 2: or hard or anything in between, and that is where
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  Speaker 2: my faith comes in. I want to be clear. We
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  Speaker 2: are not talking about gambling or making risky and crazy decisions,
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  Speaker 2: although sometimes God has had me do things that looked
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  Speaker 2: really risky, really crazy to others.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew that. I knew that, I knew in
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  Speaker 1: the core of my being that it was the Almighty
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  Speaker 1: leading me.
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  Speaker 2: He will not ever ever ask you to do something
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  Speaker 2: contrary to his word. That was hard for me to learn.
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  Speaker 2: And He's always in it for the long game. God's
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  Speaker 2: not in our lives for a quick fix. It's the
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  Speaker 2: long game, and you always have a choice. You have
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  Speaker 2: the choice to listen, to take direction, to lean on
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  Speaker 2: God to allow his wisdom to direct your path, or
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  Speaker 2: do it your own way. Gives us that freedom, He
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  Speaker 2: gives us that free will. Up first, I have a
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  Speaker 2: story from a couple named Jody and Dave. They've been
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  Speaker 2: through so much together, but their faith has never wavered.
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  Speaker 2: Jody and Dave, welcome to have a little faith with Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: What is on your minds tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've been trying to get to hold you for
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  Speaker 4: a while now. Well, but I didn't try every day,
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  Speaker 4: but it was a miracle that we got.
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  Speaker 3: Through to you.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm grateful to the Lord for doing that, but
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to share with you. My husband has
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  Speaker 4: been listening to you for a very long time, and
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  Speaker 4: when he tells the stories about your life and what
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  Speaker 4: you've told them on the radio, he gets moved.
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  Speaker 3: Appears he just really appreciates you a lot.
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  Speaker 4: So my husband, when he was nineteen, he had a
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  Speaker 4: work accident and lost both of his hands, and he
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  Speaker 4: was born with epilepsy, and the Lord actually saved him
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  Speaker 4: a Christian, but he had walked away and then brought
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  Speaker 4: him back and his life has been so fruitful ever since.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you been married to this man?
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  Speaker 4: Almost twenty three years?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And did you meet him after the accident or before
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  Speaker 2: the accident?
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  Speaker 4: Well after he lost the hands in nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 4: actually when he had his accident. Oh my.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you stood before the Lord and those vows,
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  Speaker 2: if I recall, I've taken him more than once. There's
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  Speaker 2: in sickness and in health. You said yes to a
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  Speaker 2: man who had lost both hands in an accident and
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  Speaker 2: had epilepsy exactly, and you were like, yes, I am
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  Speaker 2: all in, I.
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  Speaker 4: Am all in. I wouldn't shade him for anything. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: I always tell him he's my best friend after the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can hear from the joy in your voice
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  Speaker 2: that you mean that. How long did you know him
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  Speaker 2: before you are like, this is the person I want
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  Speaker 2: to spend the rest of my life with.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because I prayed a few years before
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  Speaker 4: I ever met him. The Lord says in his word
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  Speaker 4: to acknowledge him in all things, that they'll make your past, Jake,
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  Speaker 4: to trust in him with all your heart, and that Lena,
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  Speaker 4: and your own understanding. When I learned that, I knew
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  Speaker 4: to ask the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: For his will.
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  Speaker 4: I had grown up with two alcoholic parents and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of trauma, so I was not interested in marriage.
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  Speaker 4: But when he saved me when I was twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: everything changed, and so he I asked him. I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: I said I I don't want alcohol or a youth
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that in my you know, anything like
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  Speaker 4: that in my marriage. And I said I didn't care
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  Speaker 4: about money. What mattered to me was that my husband,
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  Speaker 4: if it was God's will, that he would love the
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  Speaker 4: Lord as much as I do, if not more than
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  Speaker 4: I do. And I told him that if he didn't
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  Speaker 4: want me married, I'd be fine with that and I
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  Speaker 4: would just be on my way. But a few years
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  Speaker 4: later I met David, and he was everything I asked
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  Speaker 4: the Lord for. God gave me so much that I
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  Speaker 4: never even thought to ask for.
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  Speaker 2: You said, he's so much more than you prayed for,
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  Speaker 2: so much more than you asked for. Top two qualities
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  Speaker 2: that you didn't even think to pray for. But God
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  Speaker 2: knew you were going to need or appreciate in your
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  Speaker 2: married life.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well, David. First of all, when I asked the
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  Speaker 4: Lord that he would love that my husband would love
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  Speaker 4: God as much as I do, if that more than
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  Speaker 4: I do. I did ask for that, but I didn't
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  Speaker 4: understand what faithfulness was. And so when I talked to
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  Speaker 4: younger people that haven't been married yet, I always especially
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  Speaker 4: Christians that let them know it's important to be even
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  Speaker 4: the oaked and to ask God for what they're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: You know their spouse, and let God do that because
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  Speaker 4: you don't know what's coming. And so my husband is
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  Speaker 4: a powerful prayer warrior, and God always answers our prayers,
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  Speaker 4: and he is extremely humble and relies on the Lord
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  Speaker 4: all the time. And his faithfulness to God actually makes
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  Speaker 4: them faithful to me. He would never say one negative
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  Speaker 4: word about me. And it was cute because when we
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  Speaker 4: first got married, I had IDHD, so you can imagine
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  Speaker 4: how all over the place I am, which you already
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  Speaker 4: now know. But he actually got a tape from Moody
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  Speaker 4: Radio called Living with a Messy.
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  Speaker 2: If he's finished with it, could he send it to
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  Speaker 2: my husband, because after nineteen years, he still hasn't wrapped
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  Speaker 2: his head around how to live with me with my ADHD.
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  Speaker 4: The most important thing is to remember that God has
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  Speaker 4: given you a set of gifts, and your husband has
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  Speaker 4: a set of gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know. I remember that.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that forgets it when he comes in
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  Speaker 2: and sees that I started another project. Hey, he completely
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  Speaker 2: forgets that this is what God gave him. He comes
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  Speaker 2: in and he sees I started a painting project or
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  Speaker 2: a clay project or a art project with the kids,
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  Speaker 2: and it's taken over every corner of the house and
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  Speaker 2: every flat space is covered, every tabletop, every countertop is
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  Speaker 2: covered with paper mache or whatever. And it's dinner time.
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  Speaker 2: He forgets that this is the skill set that God
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  Speaker 2: gave me.
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  Speaker 4: You're very creative and you're very blessed with that, because
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  Speaker 4: if you make dinner, you've probably come up with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of wild ideas.
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  Speaker 2: I do, and it's really delicious. So you need to
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  Speaker 2: talk to him and remind him that the same woman
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  Speaker 2: that just made an amazing goulash out of potatoes and
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  Speaker 2: garlic and onions and sweet peppers and two different kinds
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  Speaker 2: of sausage, that same woman likes to do paper mache
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  Speaker 2: at the dining table.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, whoa, I hear you.
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  Speaker 4: My dining table is filled with so many things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I have a place for David to do that, and
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  Speaker 4: I stand up at the counter because I can't get organized.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand how to do that. And the biggest
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  Speaker 4: thing is really Delilah. The truth is that my husband,
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  Speaker 4: he's a great example to me because what he does
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  Speaker 4: is when he feeds something the way I'm thinking, or
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  Speaker 4: maybe something that I'm doing that could leave me in
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  Speaker 4: a wrong direction, he never yells at me. He never.
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  Speaker 3: Tells me how wrong I am. What he does.
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  Speaker 4: He goes to Lord in prayer and then I noticed
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  Speaker 4: my heart is changing, and I asked him, did you
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  Speaker 4: pray about this? And he says, is there's something wrong
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  Speaker 4: with that?
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  Speaker 2: So Basically they're double teaming you, and he's got the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit on his side.
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  Speaker 1: You might as well just cry uncle.
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  Speaker 4: The Holy fearit of my side too, so we both
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  Speaker 4: got him soking. But I do know that that's the
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  Speaker 4: best way, because God is the only one that can
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  Speaker 4: change the heart.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, you know what I love.
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  Speaker 4: Delilah is that we can come to him looking for
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  Speaker 4: something that we think we need, and then He shows
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  Speaker 4: up with what we really need.
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  Speaker 2: Jody Dave, May God continue to bless your incredible love
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  Speaker 2: for each other. I have truly been blessed by hearing
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  Speaker 2: this story. Now we're going to talk to Gwen. Gwenn
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  Speaker 2: literally answered a very difficult calling and even though she
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  Speaker 2: chose a really hard profession, she is truly truly doing
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's work. Gwinn, welcome to have a little faith.
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  Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 4: I was just hoping you would play a song for
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  Speaker 4: my family, a wife and my mother in law. Very
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  Speaker 4: having me the ability to do my dream job. I
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  Speaker 4: can't really call it a job because it's my.
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  Speaker 2: Calling and what is your calling that they are enabling
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  Speaker 2: you to fulfill.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an end of life doula.
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  Speaker 1: That is a hard calling.
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  Speaker 4: I love it, but it does require me to be
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  Speaker 4: away sometimes to be with my people and my families
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  Speaker 4: that I work with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, death doesn't really have a time schedule like life does.
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  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: You help people when they are transitioning from this world
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  Speaker 2: to the next, and you help their families. Like a
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  Speaker 2: doula helps a baby to come into this world, you
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  Speaker 2: you help that person to leave this world. Right, that
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  Speaker 2: is a calling. It is How does one like, how
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  Speaker 2: does somebody even find someone like you say, I was
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  Speaker 2: just diagnosed and the doctor says, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not long. Get your affairs in order? How do they
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  Speaker 2: even find somebody who can walk this that very painful
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  Speaker 2: path with them?
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  Speaker 3: In some areas it is hard to find.
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  Speaker 4: I work privately, but I also work with hoffice companies,
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  Speaker 4: So sometimes if you are going through a hoffice companies,
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  Speaker 4: they will have.
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  Speaker 3: Doulas that work with them.
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  Speaker 2: What an honor that you get to to take that journey.
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  Speaker 2: We're all here just walking each other home. You just
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  Speaker 2: get to walk the last few feet before they before
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  Speaker 2: they enter.
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  Speaker 4: That is very true and I find it a very
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  Speaker 4: beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: When I have lost many people in my life due
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  Speaker 2: to tragedy, but also to terminal illness. Neither scenario are
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  Speaker 2: what we've ever prepared for or ever wanted. But having
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  Speaker 2: the loving guidance, the compassion, and the help it takes
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  Speaker 2: great courage and is truly God's work. Thank you to
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  Speaker 2: every hospice worker, every doula. Thank you for listening to
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  Speaker 2: the Almighty, and thank you for following your calling.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. You have a great night. Delavah.
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  Speaker 2: I was conversing with someone on social media, a fitness
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  Speaker 2: coach named Andy, and he shared with me the most
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  Speaker 2: beautiful love story, like the kind of love story you
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  Speaker 2: make a movie out of, and I wanted to share
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  Speaker 2: it with you in the hopes that it would touch
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  Speaker 2: your heart and inspire you as much as it did me.
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  Speaker 2: Andy says, here is a shorter version of our love story.
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  Speaker 2: I was living in San Diego and turning at a
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  Speaker 2: church at the time. One day I was asked to
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  Speaker 2: pick up a pastor and his wife who were coming
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  Speaker 2: to our church to speak. Within about five minutes of
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  Speaker 2: meeting me, they asked me if I was single. I
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  Speaker 2: laughed and said yeah. Then the pastor's wife said something
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  Speaker 2: that completely caught me off guard. She said your wife
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  Speaker 2: is in Seattle and she works for us. Next thing
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  Speaker 2: I know, they pick up the phone and they call her.
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  Speaker 2: When she answered, they said, Tiffany, we just met your
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  Speaker 2: future husband. He does what you do here for us,
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  Speaker 2: but at the church in San Diego. He loves the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: He is good looking, and his arms are as big
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  Speaker 2: as my thighs. Then they handed me the phone. We
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  Speaker 2: talked awkwardly for a few minutes, exchanged Facebook request and
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  Speaker 2: started messaging back and forth. That turned into phone calls,
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  Speaker 2: video chats, and long conversations almost every day. About a
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  Speaker 2: month later, I flew north to meet her in person.
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  Speaker 2: I showed up as a single man, and a week
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  Speaker 2: later I flew back to San Diego with a girlfriend.
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  Speaker 2: What's amazing is that even before meeting her, I had
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  Speaker 2: been feeling a shift in my spirit. I'd always wanted
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  Speaker 2: to visit Seattle, maybe even move there one day. Well
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what happened. Within eleven months, we met through
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  Speaker 2: her pastors, started dating, got engaged, and got married. Looking back,
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  Speaker 2: it still feels kind of crazy, but right I know
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  Speaker 2: one thing for sure. Tiffany is my best friend. She
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  Speaker 2: loves the Lord deeply. She's beautiful, strong and one of
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  Speaker 2: the hardest working people I know. She inspires me to
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  Speaker 2: be a better man every single day. My heart is
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  Speaker 2: to continually take care of her spiritually, emotionally, financially, and physically.
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  Speaker 2: I want her to always know that she is heard, valued, protected, adored,
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  Speaker 2: and deeply loved. I want to keep dating her because
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  Speaker 2: she means the world to me.
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  Speaker 1: Delilah.
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  Speaker 2: We are incredibly blessed with four amazing kids. They are thirteen, eleven,
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  Speaker 2: nine and five, three girls and one boy. Our house
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  Speaker 2: is always full of energy, noise, laughter and fun. We
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  Speaker 2: always knew we wanted kids, we just weren't sure how many. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we ended the season with four, and we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: it any other way. They are truly incredible, smart, athletic, creative,
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  Speaker 2: and I really believe their future world changers. One of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite things is that I get to coach two
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  Speaker 2: of them currently in flag football, and I absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 2: Those moments on the field with them are something I'll
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  Speaker 2: always cherish. My kids take my why in life to
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  Speaker 2: a whole new level. They are my why I want
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  Speaker 2: to be the kind of dad they know they can
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  Speaker 2: always count on a dad who loves them deeply, has fun,
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  Speaker 2: with them, protects them, provides for them, teaches them, and
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  Speaker 2: sets a strong example a dad who prays over them,
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  Speaker 2: encourages them, and sets them up for success in life.
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  Speaker 2: They inspire me to work harder, dream bigger, and create
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  Speaker 2: opportunities and experiences that will a lifetime. More than anything,
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  Speaker 2: I want to build a legacy of faith, love and
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  Speaker 2: family that they can carry forward. And I love them
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  Speaker 2: all more than words could ever express. Andy, you are
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  Speaker 2: a blessed, blessed man. You and Tiffany have been brought
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  Speaker 2: together by the Lord God Almighty, and blessed with these
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  Speaker 2: four children. Because God adores you. He adores you both.
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  Speaker 2: He rejoices over you with singing. Don't forget that the
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  Speaker 2: world it's crazier every single day. All the things, all
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  Speaker 2: the things that were written thousands of years ago, are
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  Speaker 2: coming to fruition in real time. We get to witness it.
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  Speaker 1: We are so blessed to be alive now.
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  Speaker 2: We were born for such a time as this, And
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  Speaker 2: no matter what, no matter what happens, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: crazy things get, know that God adores you. He's there
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  Speaker 2: for you. He will never leave you, nor forsake you.
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  Speaker 2: I promise you that his words are true. He cannot
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  Speaker 2: lie every promise that he gives us. We will see
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  Speaker 2: come to fruition. Lord bless you and keep you and
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  Speaker 2: Tiffany and your children, and watch over you. As the
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  Speaker 2: world gets crazier, his love will just grow stronger. God
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  Speaker 2: bless you. As we wrap this episode of Have a
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  Speaker 2: Little Faith with Delilah, I want to remind you one
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  Speaker 2: more time that if you have even a mustard seed
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  Speaker 2: of faith, and you pray and read God's word and
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  Speaker 2: dive into a relationship with the Almighty and follow God's
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  Speaker 2: will for your life, you will never ever ever regret that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here on this episode.
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  Speaker 4: Del