Latest / Have A Little Faith with Delilah / The Season Of Graditude Part 3
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Welcome back. Welcome back to have a
- 0:05Speaker 1: Little Faith with Delia. We started doing this new podcast
- 0:11Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, and of all the projects
- 0:15Speaker 1: I've taken on in the last teen years, I think
- 0:18Speaker 1: I've been most excited about about this project because I
- 0:24Speaker 1: love having the freedom to share my faith. See. For years,
- 0:30Speaker 1: because I'm in commercial radio, not Christian radio, for years,
- 0:35Speaker 1: I've been told to be quiet. We don't talk about
- 0:38Speaker 1: our faith. That's something that's divisive and nobody want to
- 0:42Speaker 1: hear about that. But guess what. My faith is the
- 0:46Speaker 1: cornerstone of all that I am, and it is the
- 0:51Speaker 1: reason I have so much gratitude in my heart. So
- 0:55Speaker 1: sharing it with you feels as comfortable as briefing. The
- 1:01Speaker 1: last couple of weeks my podcast have been about gratitude.
- 1:05Speaker 1: We are celebrating the day of Thanksgiving, but also the
- 1:09Speaker 1: whole season of gratitude. We're celebrating it all month long,
- 1:13Speaker 1: all season long, but I think we should celebrate it
- 1:17Speaker 1: all year long. Gratitude should be a part of our
- 1:20Speaker 1: daily thoughts. Expressing kindness and love and gratitude is a
- 1:25Speaker 1: common theme you will find on my show each and
- 1:28Speaker 1: every night, because it's how I live my life. It's
- 1:31Speaker 1: how I think we should all live our life. So
- 1:34Speaker 1: many things. I'm grateful for my health. To begin with
- 1:37Speaker 1: my health. I decided to take some advice, mostly from
- 1:42Speaker 1: my sister in law who's a retired registered nurse, who
- 1:46Speaker 1: sat me down and had a very frank conversation with me,
- 1:50Speaker 1: and I don't do certain destructive things. I thought I
- 1:53Speaker 1: got a pass. I thought the Almighty was going to
- 1:56Speaker 1: give me a pass on my poor eating choices. Ah,
- 2:00Speaker 1: my blood sugar said nay, nay, no, we have to
- 2:04Speaker 1: pay attention here. And so for the last five or
- 2:07Speaker 1: six months, I have been making different life choices when
- 2:12Speaker 1: it comes to my eating and my exercise. And it
- 2:15Speaker 1: was really my sister in law, Joni, that motivated me
- 2:18Speaker 1: to take that step and break that addiction, because I
- 2:22Speaker 1: have such an addiction to sugar, to process foods and sugars.
- 2:27Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about you know, bags of flaming
- 2:30Speaker 1: hot Cheetos, although I do love those, but just honey
- 2:35Speaker 1: in my tea four or five times a day, or
- 2:40Speaker 1: a cupcake or an apple fritter before I go to bed,
- 2:45Speaker 1: or a bowl of ice cream with the kids and
- 2:48Speaker 1: pasta and rice we cook rice. We have rice with
- 2:52Speaker 1: just about every meal. My children are rice and they
- 2:56Speaker 1: love rice and beans. They love rice with meat. They
- 3:00Speaker 1: love rice, and they're still They're from Ghana, West Africa,
- 3:04Speaker 1: and rice is a staple food, and so I just
- 3:07Speaker 1: kept making it not good for me, not good for them.
- 3:11Speaker 1: So I've had to change my cooking habits and certainly
- 3:15Speaker 1: change my eating habits. So I am grateful this year
- 3:18Speaker 1: for my health. On this episode of Have a Little Faith,
- 3:24Speaker 1: I'm going to share some very grateful people up. First,
- 3:29Speaker 1: we have Blarehm. Blaream is grateful for his wife, his children,
- 3:34Speaker 1: and for a restaurant they are opening together. Let's hear
- 3:39Speaker 1: his grateful heart right now, Good evening. This is Delilah,
- 3:43Speaker 1: who's with me on the phone lines.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Yes, Delilah, my name is Blair him.
- 3:48Speaker 1: How are you, Blair. I'm wonderful. What can I do
- 3:52Speaker 1: for you?
- 3:53Speaker 3: I just want to express the law from my beautiful wife, Jennifer,
- 3:56Speaker 3: and uh it's wonderful. She's ray our two daughters. Because
- 4:01Speaker 3: I work most of the time. I just wanted to
- 4:04Speaker 3: tell her how much I appreciate her.
- 4:06Speaker 2: Jennifer. Also say Hi Delilah from the Hi Delilah.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Hi, Jennifer. Your husband called me to tell me. He
- 4:16Speaker 1: said he's working so hard to support the family, but
- 4:20Speaker 1: that you are doing everything for the girls and for
- 4:24Speaker 1: your family, and he loves you.
- 4:29Speaker 4: Yeah, my husband is so sweet. Yes, he's working very hard.
- 4:34Speaker 4: He has a regular hotel job, but he's also working
- 4:38Speaker 4: beforehand to open up his own restaurant. So I am
- 4:43Speaker 4: very impressed by him.
- 4:45Speaker 1: So what kind of restaurant are we going to have?
- 4:48Speaker 4: Italian and pizza and plantation Florida.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait. Once you get there, once it's open,
- 4:56Speaker 1: let me.
- 4:56Speaker 2: Know we will.
- 4:58Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's incredib I mean, we go on about
- 5:01Speaker 4: what four or five hours of sleep every night so
- 5:04Speaker 4: we can take care of our growing little family. Our
- 5:07Speaker 4: daughter just turn one this week and our other daughter
- 5:10Speaker 4: just started kindergarten.
- 5:11Speaker 1: So with two babies, why not why not have a
- 5:14Speaker 1: full time job and be opening a restaurant where you
- 5:18Speaker 1: will be twenty four to seven once it's open. Can
- 5:20Speaker 1: I give you some advices from somebody who had a
- 5:23Speaker 1: restaurant for years? Yes, you can't leave. You have to
- 5:27Speaker 1: stay there all the time. If you leave, you will
- 5:32Speaker 1: lose your restaurant. If you step out the door, so
- 5:35Speaker 1: does everything in the freezer. I don't know how it works,
- 5:38Speaker 1: but if you've got fifty pounds of meatballs in the freezer,
- 5:43Speaker 1: you leave the restaurant to go home and sleep for
- 5:45Speaker 1: a minute. You come back, there's only twenty pounds of meatballs.
- 5:48Speaker 1: I don't know where they go.
- 5:49Speaker 2: I know it's true.
- 5:51Speaker 1: I mean toilet paper. I would buy a case of
- 5:55Speaker 1: toilet paper. I would go home, I would come back
- 5:57Speaker 1: there'd be two rolls of toilet paper. Now, I mean
- 6:01Speaker 1: that was back before you know, I was smart and
- 6:04Speaker 1: would have had cameras everywhere.
- 6:07Speaker 5: But my goodness, yeah, Delilah, Delilah, Yes, my darling, who's
- 6:17Speaker 5: going to be the chef?
- 6:18Speaker 1: Which one of you loves to cook?
- 6:20Speaker 2: I love to cook and my wife loves to bake.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Though it's a private combination.
- 6:24Speaker 1: And are you going to phase out so you don't
- 6:26Speaker 1: have to have other jobs that this will the restaurant
- 6:28Speaker 1: will be your full time gig.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Yes, yes, full time gig hopefully.
- 6:32Speaker 3: And you know, I'm a person I can I can
- 6:36Speaker 3: teach people how to do it and hopefully they're going
- 6:38Speaker 3: to have the passion do it. And I want to
- 6:40Speaker 3: be able to trust them, you know, because I'm I
- 6:42Speaker 3: used to be very you know, controlled free.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're not going to be able to trust them, Blair.
- 6:46Speaker 1: I'm sorry, You're going to have to be a control
- 6:48Speaker 1: freak if you want your restaurant to survive. Yeah, tell
- 6:52Speaker 1: me about Jennifer. Tell me about your marriage.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Well, Jennifer, she's the redhead.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Third generation I, which is perfect for me because I'm
- 7:02Speaker 3: Albanian and we both you know, mixed rate Europeans.
- 7:05Speaker 2: We have the most beautiful daughters.
- 7:07Speaker 3: In the world that every pair and shall say for
- 7:10Speaker 3: their daughters, right, And the little one is Laura Lei
- 7:14Speaker 3: and the oldest one is Julietta.
- 7:16Speaker 1: You must have a beautiful, beautiful family. What's going to
- 7:20Speaker 1: be the name of your restaurant?
- 7:22Speaker 2: Kucina Alfresco?
- 7:24Speaker 1: Okay, Kuchina Alfresco and Plantation, Florida.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Yes, we met in Chicago twenty fifteen and we've been
- 7:34Speaker 3: since then trying to create memories and met in love.
- 7:38Speaker 2: And when you.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Open the restaurant, is there going to be a table
- 7:41Speaker 1: called the Delilah Table where folks falling in love, you know,
- 7:45Speaker 1: people who want to propose that sort of thing. We
- 7:48Speaker 1: can have a booth in the back in the corner
- 7:50Speaker 1: in the dark. That'll just be the Delilah table for
- 7:54Speaker 1: couples in love.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:56Speaker 1: I have a favorite restaurant in New York City. I
- 7:59Speaker 1: go to Lamels every time I'm there, to Juniors or Lamela's,
- 8:03Speaker 1: and I'm like, you guys need to have like my
- 8:06Speaker 1: table here where where my listeners can come and set
- 8:10Speaker 1: and enjoy your food. So we can have the Delilah
- 8:14Speaker 1: table in Plantation, Florida.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Absolutely will be will be our honor to have that.
- 8:21Speaker 2: You know where Mother Teresa is from.
- 8:23Speaker 1: From Albania. Yeah, my mother in law met Mother Teresa.
- 8:29Speaker 1: I called my mother in law one night, like eleven o'clock.
- 8:32Speaker 1: I said, mom, I just found out because I worked
- 8:34Speaker 1: at the radio station in Boston. I said, mom, I
- 8:36Speaker 1: just found out that Mother Teresa is going to be
- 8:38Speaker 1: at this church tomorrow during the first Mass. And da
- 8:43Speaker 1: da dad da da dad da da dad. They're not
- 8:46Speaker 1: letting it be known to the public yet. And she's like,
- 8:49Speaker 1: oh my goodness. So she did not go to bed
- 8:52Speaker 1: that night. She stayed up all night and she went
- 8:55Speaker 1: to the church at like midnight and parked in the
- 9:00Speaker 1: parking lot and waited, and she was the first one
- 9:03Speaker 1: in line when the church doors opened so she could
- 9:06Speaker 1: go to the mass, and she sat up front, and
- 9:08Speaker 1: when they passed the piece, she got to go forward,
- 9:12Speaker 1: and she blessed Mother Teresa, and Mother Teresa blessed her.
- 9:17Speaker 1: And when Mother Teresa held her hand, she said she
- 9:22Speaker 1: felt warmth spread through her whole body and her little legs.
- 9:26Speaker 1: My mother in law's only five foot tap less than
- 9:28Speaker 1: five foot tall, like four eleven, and her little legs
- 9:31Speaker 1: were so inflamed and swollen from years of being on
- 9:36Speaker 1: her feet working. She worked as a hairstylust and then
- 9:38Speaker 1: she worked cleaning people's houses. And the minute that Mother
- 9:41Speaker 1: Teresa touched her, her legs were completely healed. And for
- 9:46Speaker 1: years she had no more pain in her feet or
- 9:50Speaker 1: her legs.
- 9:51Speaker 2: That's wonderful, that's amazing.
- 9:53Speaker 1: That's my Mother teresa miracle story.
- 9:56Speaker 2: That's I'll be in touch, all right.
- 10:00Speaker 1: We'll be intention and I'll send you a picture.
- 10:02Speaker 4: I don't have to share one story or you have
- 10:04Speaker 4: to do.
- 10:05Speaker 1: Of course.
- 10:06Speaker 4: Well, I just wanted to say how romantic my husband
- 10:10Speaker 4: is and how I knew that he was the one
- 10:13Speaker 4: within a week of dating him.
- 10:16Speaker 2: Because we lived.
- 10:17Speaker 4: In Chicago, so neither of us had a car, and
- 10:20Speaker 4: I from Florida, so I visited my parents within a
- 10:25Speaker 4: week of us starting to date. So he asked his
- 10:28Speaker 4: best friend to borrow his minivan up from the airport,
- 10:33Speaker 4: which was like thirty minutes away from you know, downtown Chicago,
- 10:37Speaker 4: and he gave me a hand wrapped gift within a
- 10:41Speaker 4: week of dating, which I kind of freaked out. I
- 10:43Speaker 4: didn't know what was going to be in the box,
- 10:46Speaker 4: and the way that he wrapped it he used in
- 10:48Speaker 4: mind you was September and he wrapped it with Superman
- 10:51Speaker 4: or Batman Christmas wrapping paper.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Because it's all he had handy at the house. I'm
- 10:58Speaker 1: sure I have.
- 11:00Speaker 2: A photo of it still.
- 11:01Speaker 4: This is ten years ago. And he made like his
- 11:03Speaker 4: own handmade handle with string and it was a big
- 11:08Speaker 4: block and I said, oh my god, what is this
- 11:10Speaker 4: guy doing. We've only been dating seven days and he
- 11:13Speaker 4: got me a gift. He picked me up from the
- 11:15Speaker 4: airport in a minivan. I open it and it is
- 11:19Speaker 4: about I don't know, six or seven little bags of
- 11:23Speaker 4: salt vinegar chips. Because I said that my favorite chips
- 11:27Speaker 4: is salt vinegar chips, and he showed that he was listening.
- 11:31Speaker 2: And I always said, like the wad.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Of my heart is salm vineger chips. Like it was
- 11:34Speaker 4: just kind of a joke, but it was just showing
- 11:36Speaker 4: that he was listening and he cares, and it was
- 11:39Speaker 4: like a funny little gift, and I knew that I
- 11:42Speaker 4: was in trouble, so to speak. Ever since then.
- 11:45Speaker 2: That was it.
- 11:45Speaker 1: He got you with the saltan. You know what my
- 11:47Speaker 1: husband does. We've been together nineteen years now, and he
- 11:53Speaker 1: knows my favorite snacks. Salt and vinegar chips are right
- 11:56Speaker 1: up there by the way. But I love gigerones and
- 12:00Speaker 1: I love black liquors, and he hides them in the
- 12:05Speaker 1: glove compartment in my car so that when I'm on
- 12:09Speaker 1: long road trips or when I have to drive, like
- 12:11Speaker 1: to the airport or whatever, He'll just text me or
- 12:14Speaker 1: call me and say, check your glove compartment, and I
- 12:17Speaker 1: find these little little snacks, because the idea, the weight
- 12:21Speaker 1: of my heart is with you know, a snack, right,
- 12:24Speaker 1: of course, So we both did well. We both are
- 12:28Speaker 1: blessed with considerate men, very very blessed.
- 12:31Speaker 6: Well.
- 12:31Speaker 1: If he's half as good looking as his accent, you
- 12:35Speaker 1: forget that you don't hold the salt and vinegar chips.
- 12:38Speaker 2: So good in the kitchen.
- 12:39Speaker 4: Let me tell you, he really is a great cooker,
- 12:42Speaker 4: Like he's an awesome chef, like he could be in
- 12:46Speaker 4: the kitchen himself for the restaurant. I mean, but it's
- 12:49Speaker 4: just it's a lot of work to run a restaurant
- 12:51Speaker 4: and cook and all that, you know.
- 12:53Speaker 6: I know.
- 12:54Speaker 1: But you guys are gonna do awesome. We are, yes,
- 12:57Speaker 1: I have no doubt about that.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Going to have the Delilah table. We are.
- 13:02Speaker 1: All right. I'm gonna send you a picture and I'm
- 13:04Speaker 1: gonna play you a song.
- 13:06Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
- 13:07Speaker 1: All right, good night. Debbie is joining us right now,
- 13:13Speaker 1: who is very grateful for her sobriety. I know a
- 13:18Speaker 1: lot of people who've stopped drinking or stop drugging, but
- 13:22Speaker 1: they're not going to twelve step meetings. They refuse, they
- 13:26Speaker 1: put down there, they dig in their heels. No, I
- 13:28Speaker 1: don't need that. I'm not like those people. And so
- 13:31Speaker 1: they're dry drunks. They're not maturing, they're not becoming the
- 13:38Speaker 1: best version of themselves because they're still being stopburn but
- 13:44Speaker 1: not deb deb is very grateful for her sobriety, and
- 13:48Speaker 1: she wants to share her new health, her new life
- 13:52Speaker 1: with the world.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Hi.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Good evening you've called the Delilah Show.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Who is this?
- 13:58Speaker 1: Yes, it's dab Hi yeb welcome aboard. Tell me what
- 14:02Speaker 1: you are so grateful for this holiday season.
- 14:06Speaker 7: Well, let's see in February, God willing, I'll have nineteen years, sobriety.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Whoa, that's a lot to celebrate. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Since we're
- 14:20Speaker 1: taking things one day at a time. We got eighteen
- 14:23Speaker 1: years and some change.
- 14:25Speaker 7: Yes, I knew, and it's not always by Rosie. So
- 14:30Speaker 7: I'm listening here for rival. I'm sixties and every time
- 14:38Speaker 7: I'm just like not maybe it's a happy place. I
- 14:42Speaker 7: just have to turn your show on and I just
- 14:46Speaker 7: feel so much better.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Well, here's my prayer every night, deb my prayer. My
- 14:51Speaker 1: producer Jane, my producer David, all my producers, we all
- 14:56Speaker 1: believe in the Almighty, and our prayer is use us
- 15:02Speaker 1: to be a light in a world that has grown dark.
- 15:07Speaker 1: Use us to be a light and to share love
- 15:11Speaker 1: in a world that sometimes is hardhearted. And so long
- 15:16Speaker 1: as I've got a voice in my throat and breath
- 15:20Speaker 1: in my lungs, I pray that God would let me
- 15:22Speaker 1: be that love letter to the world. Every night his
- 15:27Speaker 1: love letter.
- 15:28Speaker 7: You are believe me in all the silly things I
- 15:32Speaker 7: did throughout my life with alcohol and draw God was
- 15:39Speaker 7: with me the entire time, because I mean, I'm here.
- 15:44Speaker 1: So what you're saying is you and I are both
- 15:46Speaker 1: living on borrowed time and God is continuing to bless us.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Yes, oh big time.
- 15:53Speaker 7: Thank you, Delilah.
- 15:54Speaker 1: You have a good night. You too, God loss you,
- 15:58Speaker 1: God bless you. The last story I want to share
- 16:02Speaker 1: is from Laura. She spent the last few years healing
- 16:05Speaker 1: after being in a very abusive relationship. However, this holiday season,
- 16:10Speaker 1: she's not only celebrating a new life, but also a
- 16:13Speaker 1: new love. Hi, Laura, welcome to have a little faith
- 16:17Speaker 1: with Delilah. Happy Thanksgiving. What can I do for you tonight?
- 16:22Speaker 6: Well, I was hoping that you could play a song
- 16:24Speaker 6: for me. It's been a rough year. I ended a
- 16:28Speaker 6: pretty abusive relationship and now I've actually reconnected with someone
- 16:34Speaker 6: who is a wonderful man who I never thought would
- 16:39Speaker 6: be possible that could love me as much as he does,
- 16:42Speaker 6: and so hopefully he can play a song for us.
- 16:44Speaker 1: So you ended one relationship that was not good on
- 16:49Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, with one being he
- 16:52Speaker 1: annoyed you and didn't take out the trash, and ten
- 16:55Speaker 1: being he said things like you were the trash, Like
- 16:59Speaker 1: where does he fall on the scale of not good
- 17:02Speaker 1: to you?
- 17:03Speaker 6: Unfortunately?
- 17:04Speaker 2: Ten?
- 17:04Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you got out of that, and I'm
- 17:06Speaker 1: glad you're safe.
- 17:07Speaker 6: Yes, thank you.
- 17:10Speaker 1: And now putting the past in the past and moving
- 17:14Speaker 1: confidently into the future. Tell me about this reconnection.
- 17:18Speaker 6: Well, you know, I was actually introduced to him from
- 17:23Speaker 6: my best friend, so you know, sometimes they know best.
- 17:28Speaker 6: And like I said, he is just a wonderful man.
- 17:31Speaker 6: I actually met him in twenty sixteen, so for us
- 17:35Speaker 6: to be able to reconnect at this time that we're
- 17:39Speaker 6: both single, and I just really think that God placed
- 17:42Speaker 6: him in my life and he's already been so instrumental
- 17:47Speaker 6: in helping my heart as I've been healing.
- 17:49Speaker 1: So we're looking at a very merry Christmas. How many
- 17:53Speaker 1: years were you not in a merry Christmas situation?
- 17:56Speaker 2: Too many?
- 17:58Speaker 1: Too many? Too many? You don't even want to think about.
- 18:00Speaker 2: It, No, I don't. I sure don't.
- 18:03Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I had somebody call me the
- 18:05Speaker 1: other night and she said, all those years that were
- 18:08Speaker 1: wasted She found out her husband was seeing her best friend,
- 18:12Speaker 1: and I said, Honey, those years were not wasted years.
- 18:17Speaker 1: That the way your your character developed and the way
- 18:20Speaker 1: your soul grew and the way your personality developed, those
- 18:24Speaker 1: are not wasted. And they had children together, so that
- 18:28Speaker 1: the way that you raised your children, those are not
- 18:31Speaker 1: wasted years. So stop thinking about it that way and
- 18:37Speaker 1: making yourself feel even worse, and think about the valuable
- 18:40Speaker 1: lessons you've learned and that you won't ever allow yourself
- 18:44Speaker 1: to be treated that way again.
- 18:46Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think that's what it took for me to
- 18:49Speaker 6: have my eyes open to actually see what a good,
- 18:54Speaker 6: healthy relationship is supposed to look like with a godly, kind, loving,
- 18:59Speaker 6: caring man.
- 19:00Speaker 2: I feel so blessed.
- 19:02Speaker 1: I will play a good uh. We're going to have
- 19:04Speaker 1: a wonderful Christmas and start our own tradition song.
- 19:08Speaker 6: Absolutely, thank you so much, Delilah.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for listening Laura all these years,
- 19:15Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. Absolutely, you have a great holiday,
- 19:19Speaker 1: God bless you.
- 19:20Speaker 6: Thank you same to you.
- 19:23Speaker 1: In closing this episode, I just want to remind you
- 19:26Speaker 1: once again how grateful I am for you. Your story,
- 19:28Speaker 1: is your love, your trust in me, It truly means
- 19:32Speaker 1: so much. Mostly mostly I am grateful to the Lord
- 19:35Speaker 1: God Almighty that I get to share my faith openly
- 19:39Speaker 1: and honestly in this podcast, that I don't have to
- 19:45Speaker 1: subtly slip in. You know, I'll pray for you, but
- 19:48Speaker 1: I can say boldly I will pray for you. I
- 19:52Speaker 1: will pray for you, I will pray for healing, I
- 19:54Speaker 1: will pray for miracles, I will pray for the Holy
- 19:58Speaker 1: Spirit to fill you from he to toe. I'll be
- 20:02Speaker 1: back next week, but until then, never forget the little
- 20:05Speaker 1: mustard seed of faith is all it takes to change
- 20:08Speaker 1: your entire life. God bless you
- 20:13Speaker 2: Del