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It Is Never Too Late To Move Forward · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to have a little faith
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah. I especially want to welcome all of our
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  Speaker 1: new friends who found us, especially if you are an
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  Speaker 1: old friend who saw me on TikTok or on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: heard me talking about my podcast and came and found me.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Today we are going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it is never too late, never too
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  Speaker 1: late to move forward. A lot of folks are living
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  Speaker 1: in the past. They're living in yester year and expecting
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  Speaker 1: things to change to be what they wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: They can't move forward because the present and the future
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  Speaker 1: are so overwhelming, and so their heart runs back to
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  Speaker 1: yesteryear and tries to cling to something that no no longer.
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  Speaker 1: Is living in the past, expecting things to be the
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  Speaker 1: way you want a waste of time. We all go
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  Speaker 1: through things that are difficult, A lot of it brought
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  Speaker 1: on by our own bad decisions, At least for me.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the difficulties I have faced in life
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  Speaker 1: not all somewhere visited upon me that I didn't choose,
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of problems, difficulties, rough times are because
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  Speaker 1: I made really bad choices. Today, I want to make
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  Speaker 1: it clear to you it is never too late to
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  Speaker 1: do an honest inventory, take an honest look at yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and then turn things around. In order to do that,
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  Speaker 1: we need to let go of the past. When I
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  Speaker 1: said that, I don't mean let go of your sweet memories,
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  Speaker 1: let go of the wisdom you've learned through your experiences.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what I'm saying. What you do have to
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  Speaker 1: drop the attachment to things that used to be. Some
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  Speaker 1: of us are so attached to the past. We hang around,
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  Speaker 1: We drag around, I should say, we drag around emotional
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  Speaker 1: baggage that is killing us. Emotional baggage like a backpack
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  Speaker 1: filled with rocks, like a suitcase filled with stench, with garbage,
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  Speaker 1: and we drag it around. We drag it with us,
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  Speaker 1: and we're not free. We're not free to be who
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  Speaker 1: we're meant to be. We're not free to run and
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  Speaker 1: jump and explore because we're dragging around all this emotional baggage.
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  Speaker 1: The first story I'm going to share with you in
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  Speaker 1: today's podcast is from a listener named Christian. He might
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  Speaker 1: be one of the sweetest young men I've ever had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to. Christian recently had his heart
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  Speaker 1: broken and he is having a very hard time moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: He is clinging to the memories of the past. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk to Christian right now. Hello, good evening. You've called
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  Speaker 1: the Delilah Show. Who is this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god? This is actually Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: I am Who are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Christian. I'm a first time calling, a long time listener.
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  Speaker 2: I've been listening to you if I was five.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome aboard, Christian, Thank you for calling. How old
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  Speaker 1: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm twenty years old.
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  Speaker 1: So are you in college? Are you in the workforce?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in college and the workforce.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing both, so you're you're burning the candle at
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  Speaker 1: both ends.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: No, Well, I'm glad I get to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of that routine. What can I do for you tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long story. I got my heartbroken about a
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  Speaker 2: year ago and it was the love of my life,
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  Speaker 2: and to this day, I still love for even though
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  Speaker 2: I don't talk to her and I missed her deeply
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  Speaker 2: and I would want to call her and I have
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  Speaker 2: her phone number, but I tell myself not to you,
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  Speaker 2: And it's just it's hard to move on like date
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  Speaker 2: other people. Every time I just want to get back
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  Speaker 2: in a relationship. I just think about her and how
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  Speaker 2: she made me feel, and if I ever feel that
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  Speaker 2: way again, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will never feel that way again. Let me just say
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  Speaker 1: that because she was your first true love and you
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  Speaker 1: gave her a part of yourself that you cannot give
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  Speaker 1: to someone else. It's a once in a lifetime thing.
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  Speaker 1: So don't try to duplicate those feelings or don't think
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  Speaker 1: that you have to feel that way again. Okay, give
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  Speaker 1: yourself permission and just say, you know what, God, that
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  Speaker 1: was a gift. It was a once in a lifetime experience.
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  Speaker 1: But you will love again. You can love again, and
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  Speaker 1: you can love again entirely and completely, but it won't
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  Speaker 1: be the same. But that's okay. You can love again,
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  Speaker 1: and you will love again. You're young. You will love again,
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  Speaker 1: but don't think that it's going to be like your
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  Speaker 1: first true love, because it won't be.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Delilah. I very much appreciate it, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't even know how excited I am. You have finally
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  Speaker 2: talked to you after fifteen years of confidence.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I predict that the next time you make it through,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to make it through. Telling me, Delilah, do
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  Speaker 1: you remember when we had that conversation and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think I would ever love again. Guess what, and you
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  Speaker 1: are going to tell me about somebody that won your
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  Speaker 1: heart and adores you completely.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you, Delilah. I love you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You're incredible, and I listen to you every day and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to listen to you for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: my life.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, BOBBYE Honey. Up next, we have Denise.
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  Speaker 1: She is dealing with a son that is refusing to
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  Speaker 1: have contact with her. This is a thing, now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a huge thing. Now it's become a trend. I
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  Speaker 1: kid you not whar adult children are saying. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you. I don't want to see you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to know you. I am excluding you
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  Speaker 1: from my life. You are toxic. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times parents are toxic. There are parents who did heinous
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  Speaker 1: things to their children. I know that it's going on
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  Speaker 1: right now. I have adopted twelve children. None of them
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  Speaker 1: were healthy, happy little babies that were placed for adoption
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  Speaker 1: by a teenage mama. They were all available because of
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  Speaker 1: abuse and neglect. There are some people who should never
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  Speaker 1: have been parents. I get so many notes and messages
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  Speaker 1: from young adults who say you are the only kind
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  Speaker 1: voice I heard in my house because their parents were
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  Speaker 1: so abusive. But most of us as parents did the
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  Speaker 1: best we could. Did we screw up, yes we did.
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  Speaker 1: Did we make horrific mistakes, yes we did, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it out of cruelty, at least I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: We made mistakes because we're human and we make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are one of those young adults who
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  Speaker 1: are saying no contact, I don't want to know you. Mom,
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  Speaker 1: My kids are not going to come over and be
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  Speaker 1: with you because I don't want you to do to
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  Speaker 1: them what you did to me. If what was done
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  Speaker 1: to you was purposeful, I am sorry, and yes, please
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  Speaker 1: protect your children and protect yourself. But if your parents
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  Speaker 1: screwed up because they're human and they were not purposing
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  Speaker 1: in their heart to abuse you, maybe maybe show a
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  Speaker 1: little bit race. Hi, Denise, what can I do for
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  Speaker 1: you tonight?
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  Speaker 4: I have been listening to you for probably over thirty
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  Speaker 4: five years. I first want to tell you your heart
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  Speaker 4: is just really gold, So I wanted to first thank
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  Speaker 4: you for that. So my husband and I have been
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  Speaker 4: married fifty years. The problem I'm having right now is
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  Speaker 4: with my oldest son and his wife, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how we got to this point, but it's really
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  Speaker 4: very sad because we're not speaking. I just want you
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  Speaker 4: to pick a song for me. My kids, all of
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  Speaker 4: them know how much I care about them, no matter
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  Speaker 4: how old they get in Life is so short, and
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  Speaker 4: it's such a stupid situation.
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  Speaker 1: So wait a second. If you've been married fifty years,
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  Speaker 1: your son is not a kid, he's a middle aged man.
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  Speaker 4: It will be fifty in December.
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  Speaker 1: And why are they choosing not to have a relationship
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  Speaker 1: with mom and dad.
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  Speaker 4: I really don't know what I did or we did
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  Speaker 4: the cause it because they won't talk to us.
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  Speaker 1: I will never understand. I understand setting healthy boundaries. I
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  Speaker 1: understand saying hey we don't see eye to eye politically
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  Speaker 1: or spiritually, or hey we have different parenting styles and
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  Speaker 1: so let's not talk about that topic that drives me nuts,
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  Speaker 1: or let's just agree to disagree. But at this stage
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  Speaker 1: in life, when life is so precious, I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest betrayals in the world is when somebody
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even give you an opportunity to say I was wrong,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If you don't even know what the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Is, right. Thank you for saying that, it's just it's
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  Speaker 4: too late for me with them too.
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  Speaker 1: It's never too late, never too late. God can do miracles,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and that's who I keep counting on. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing, Denise, you are living in the past, trying
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  Speaker 1: to fix something on your own. You are trying to
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  Speaker 1: force a relationship that you can't fix. Your son is
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  Speaker 1: choosing to not have contact. You cannot change that. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: God can fix it, But you, my friend, have to
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  Speaker 1: move forward, have to rejoice in the love and the
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  Speaker 1: relationships you do have in your life, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to pray. The Lord can fix anything. He can do miracles,
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  Speaker 1: you really can. But you have to let him. You
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  Speaker 1: have to give him control. And you have to realize
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  Speaker 1: that no amount of longing on your part is going
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  Speaker 1: to bring your son and his family back into your arms.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that will as a miracle from God,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where you should be putting your focus. It
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  Speaker 1: is never too late to heal hearts.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Delilah. I so much appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you and you will always be in my prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. The next story I want to share is
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  Speaker 1: from Ethan. Ethan is ready to move forward with a
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  Speaker 1: relationship he's wanted for a long time. The good news
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  Speaker 1: is that he is doing this with the Lord. Here
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  Speaker 1: is Ethan's story. Ethan, Welcome to the Delilah Show. What
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  Speaker 1: can I do for you next?
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  Speaker 5: Fillile?
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  Speaker 6: I just wanted to call. There is a woman who
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  Speaker 6: just came back into my life after about fifteen years,
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  Speaker 6: and I just wanted to call and let her know
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  Speaker 6: that I think she's awesome. I think she's an amazing mom,
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  Speaker 6: aniven woman, and I've just really enjoyed talking to her
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  Speaker 6: again after so long.
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  Speaker 1: So you're you're catching the fields and those little conversations
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  Speaker 1: going on. There's a little flirting.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I had a huge crust on her back in school,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, we were friends, and I was always
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  Speaker 6: too shy to tell her. And we get out of
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  Speaker 6: high school and she kind of does her thing and
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  Speaker 6: I do mine, and through a series of events we
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  Speaker 6: the were to rekindled. I guess how.
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  Speaker 1: Long has it been since this rekindling started? How long
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  Speaker 1: have we been talking?
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  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, it's just been a few weeks. But it's
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  Speaker 6: been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Delilah, And have you met face to face yet or
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  Speaker 1: is this all on face time and telephone?
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  Speaker 6: We met one and then another time, and this is
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  Speaker 6: church where I thought, all right, Lord, if you want
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  Speaker 6: this to work out, I want to work on it's
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  Speaker 6: not I don't, and I'll enjoy at the grocery store,
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  Speaker 6: which was kind of hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: And what's her name, Ethan? Her name is Morgan, and
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  Speaker 1: Morgan is not involved with anyone. She's free, She's able
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  Speaker 1: to connect, and so are you.
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  Speaker 6: She's free and I'm free, And you know, I'm just
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  Speaker 6: kind of hanging out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Luck.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just tell me, all right, well, keep
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  Speaker 1: me updated, keep me abreast of the situation. I want
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  Speaker 1: to know if it's a yes, if it's a no,
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  Speaker 1: if it's you know, I heard somebody say one time
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  Speaker 1: that some people come into your life and they're like
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  Speaker 1: a limb on the tree of your life. They're there forever.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are just a leaf and they fall off
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  Speaker 1: when the season passes. I'm like, oh, that's good.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's see. I'm hoping this forever. But you know what,
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  Speaker 6: whatever God's will is, that's all we want.
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  Speaker 1: Well I will play a song for you too, and
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  Speaker 1: I will wish you luck and I will wait to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Lallah.
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  Speaker 1: Next up in this podcast, we have Jeremy Jeremy who
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  Speaker 1: is literally cruising forward with the help of some very
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  Speaker 1: supportive friends. Hi, Jeremy, how are you tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I'm wonderful if I'm listening to your show and inspired
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  Speaker 5: all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: A reason I'm calling as I've got five wonderful friends
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  Speaker 5: and they've been friends of mine for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: One of them I've even been friends for twenty seven
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  Speaker 5: years and he's been a friend to me even when
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  Speaker 5: I went through a tough marriage of her taking the
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  Speaker 5: money and they finally convintion it. I need to get
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  Speaker 5: rid of her because she was not good for me
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  Speaker 5: and I just have a kand of friends. They're so amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of her, or divorce her, divorced her. Sorry Gus,
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  Speaker 1: when you say get rid of her, I'm like, what
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  Speaker 1: a minute, what are we talking about here? Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: you went through a divorce and your friends have been
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  Speaker 1: there for you, and what can I do for these
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  Speaker 1: five friends?
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  Speaker 5: I just want to say how amazing all of my
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  Speaker 5: friends have been and how thankful I am that God
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  Speaker 5: bought everyone into my life. I've got such an amazing
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  Speaker 5: faith and such an amazing God that takes care of
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  Speaker 5: me all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, When your friends saw that you were struggling, when
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  Speaker 1: your friends saw that you were being taken advantage of,
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  Speaker 1: they shared their observations honestly enough that you could see it.
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  Speaker 5: I put up with it brover twelve years. They said
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  Speaker 5: that I didn't need to get out of it, and
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  Speaker 5: that God would have forgive me because of the way
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  Speaker 5: she's been treating him everything.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that so hard, though, when when you believe like
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and you believe that the divorce is not
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  Speaker 1: an option, and we try so hard to make it
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  Speaker 1: work until we hit that wall. For you, it was
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  Speaker 1: feeling like you couldn't continue living. For me, it was
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  Speaker 1: feeling like I couldn't take it, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people and the church turned against me. When I went
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  Speaker 1: through a divorce.
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  Speaker 5: I had to a church I was going to, even
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  Speaker 5: though they they went through all the steps of getting
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  Speaker 5: her removed from a church. They even said that because divorce,
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  Speaker 5: I was not allowed at that church anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I'm glad that you've got people that
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  Speaker 1: are in your corner. And love you enough to say,
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  Speaker 1: I see this as killing you. You've got to You've
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  Speaker 1: got to find a way out of this.
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  Speaker 5: Right. And I've been divorced a year now and I
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  Speaker 5: went so then, so much more happier than I was
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  Speaker 5: when I was married.
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  Speaker 1: And what does your heart say?
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  Speaker 5: I know that I'm so much more happier. I'm getting
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  Speaker 5: ready to go on a cruise with four of us,
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  Speaker 5: all going on the cruise here in about twelve days.
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  Speaker 5: It's so amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, be safe, have fun, be blessed, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: your heart is healing.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, it was really good speaking with you.
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  Speaker 1: You have a great night. The last call I want
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  Speaker 1: to share with you today is from Christina. It took
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  Speaker 1: her a while, but she's moving forward in love, and
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  Speaker 1: I do mean in love. The best part of the
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  Speaker 1: story is that her Italian daddy approves. She's got the
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  Speaker 1: seal of approval from Daddy. I'm going to share Christina's
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  Speaker 1: happy story right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there, Delila, my name is Christina.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Christina, welcome. What can I do for you tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have been listening to your show for many,
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  Speaker 3: many years, since I was growing up. In your words,
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  Speaker 3: I've always just held true to my heart spiritually and
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  Speaker 3: guided me through a lot of things growing up. But
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  Speaker 3: about a year ago I ended a relationship which yesterday
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  Speaker 3: would have been for eleven years. And I recently found
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  Speaker 3: love in the most unexpected time. And I'm so frid
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  Speaker 3: but grateful for him, and I words cannot just express
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  Speaker 3: how happy I am.
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  Speaker 1: So you were in a situation that you kept thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I do this, it'll get better. If I say this,
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  Speaker 1: it'll get better. If I tried this, maybe it'll get better.
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  Speaker 1: And it never got better.
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  Speaker 3: It never got better. After ten years, I said, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, it's time for me. And I did not
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  Speaker 3: know that me at that point anymore for so long?
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  Speaker 1: And is it just you or were there children in
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  Speaker 1: this too?
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  Speaker 3: It was just me. I lost that chance to have
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  Speaker 3: a family. Unfortunately, by the grace of God, I found
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  Speaker 3: someone knew in my life who is accepted accepting that
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  Speaker 3: and making me feel like I'm so worthy, which is
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  Speaker 3: of blessings in itself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't even know you, and I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you're an awesome person.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And if your heart's desire is to build a family,
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  Speaker 1: you know there's a lot of ways to do that right.
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  Speaker 3: Is and he and the person who I who has
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  Speaker 3: gracefully landed into my lap somehow, has also mentioned that
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  Speaker 3: as well. And he just he's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: You say you didn't mean to find love, like, how
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  Speaker 1: did he come weltzing into your life?
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  Speaker 3: After my last relationship ended, of course, my girlfriends convinced
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  Speaker 3: me to go online and try the not so you know,
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  Speaker 3: normal route of meeting people. But nowadays, because of work
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  Speaker 3: and life and all.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the only route. Nowadays. I don't know anybody
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  Speaker 1: who meets anybody in real life. It's all online.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, because I don't want to meet anyone
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  Speaker 3: at a bar because you know, I don't. It's just
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  Speaker 3: not my scene. But so I did meet him online.
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  Speaker 3: His name's Dominic, and he he has just been amazing
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  Speaker 3: and he's just turned my world upside down, just showing
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  Speaker 3: me hope, love, faith and just a future.
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  Speaker 1: And have have your best friends met Dominic? Because I
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  Speaker 1: tell women now, if you've been in an unhealthy relationship,
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  Speaker 1: chances are you may repeat that pattern. So have your
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  Speaker 1: best friends vet him before you're all in. Have your
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  Speaker 1: best friends met him and given the stamp of approval.
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  Speaker 3: My family has met him and given their stamp of approval.
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  Speaker 3: So the next step is my best friends.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so once once he's best friend approved, once
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  Speaker 1: they say yes, yes, we don't see any red flags,
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  Speaker 1: then then you know he's Delilah worthy. Well he's Delilah
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  Speaker 1: worthy now because he made you smile. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and play a song for you. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, the best friends have got to give the
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  Speaker 1: stamp of approval the thumbs up.
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  Speaker 3: My Italian father gave a stamp of approval, so that
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  Speaker 3: was my biggest fear.
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  Speaker 1: And now did Italian dad like the last one or
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  Speaker 1: did he see right through his nonsense?
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  Speaker 3: He saw right through, and I, of course that's his
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  Speaker 3: daughter keeps like whatever you like, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you like, but I really don't care for him.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, But he really does enjoy this guy. And he
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  Speaker 3: sees a smile in my face, he hears it in
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  Speaker 3: my voice, and that's what really matters to me.
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  Speaker 1: I will play a great song for you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for calling, Thank you Delilah. And closing, there are many
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  Speaker 1: ways that we end up staying stuck, mostly trying to
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  Speaker 1: recreate what will never be again. The inability to get
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  Speaker 1: back to a time when things felt right is something
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  Speaker 1: we all go through. We gotta try instead to accept
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  Speaker 1: what is and move forward with God. The secret is
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  Speaker 1: asking where is the blessing in this? When I am
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  Speaker 1: looking back on yesteryear, when I am longing for yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And trust me, when you lose children, you spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time longing for yesterday. But when I stop
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  Speaker 1: and say, where is the blessing in this? And what now,
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  Speaker 1: God would you have me to do? What now, God
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  Speaker 1: would you have me to do? I cannot go backwards.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot bring my boys back. I cannot go backwards
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  Speaker 1: and fix mistakes I made and marriages that ended in divorce.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I wish I could, I can't. What now,
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  Speaker 1: Lord would you have me to do? When I ask
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  Speaker 1: that question, and when I look for the blessings that
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  Speaker 1: exist in my life, I can move forward with anticipation.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me today on and have a
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  Speaker 1: little faith. If you've got a story you would like
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  Speaker 1: to share, if you need a prayer, if you have
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  Speaker 1: an area of faith you're struggling with, or something you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. If I can help, if I can shed
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  Speaker 1: a little light, if I can illuminate the path for you.
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  Speaker 1: Please call me every night I'm in the studio. One
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  Speaker 1: Do me a favor in the days ahead, slow down
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  Speaker 1: and love someone Be love