Latest / Have A Little Faith with Delilah / Love Will Lead You Back

Transcript

Love Will Lead You Back · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

0:01
Speaker 1: Hello, my friend.
0:02
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to Have a Little Faith with the Lena.
0:09
Speaker 2: If you have been listening to our other episodes, welcome back.
0:13
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you're here.
0:15
Speaker 2: I hope this episode encourages your heart, strengthens your faith,
0:20
Speaker 2: puts a smile on your face, and encourages you to
0:25
Speaker 2: share with others. Every week we do a podcast called
0:30
Speaker 2: have a Little Faith because I get to share my
0:33
Speaker 2: faith openly with you. I don't always get to do
0:36
Speaker 2: that on the radio. And when I talk to somebody,
0:39
Speaker 2: especially somebody that's exploring the concept of faith or sharing
0:43
Speaker 2: how their faith in the Almighty enhances every aspect of
0:49
Speaker 2: their life, especially their love life. I'll talk ten fifteen,
0:53
Speaker 2: twenty minutes, half an hour with someone and on this
0:56
Speaker 2: podcast you get to hear the entire conversation. We're not
1:00
Speaker 2: going to edit it to be under three minutes to
1:02
Speaker 2: go with the song. We're going to let you hear
1:04
Speaker 2: people share their truth, their walk, their story, from their heart.
1:13
Speaker 2: This episode is dedicated to honoring young love, older love,
1:19
Speaker 2: first love that finds a way and endures.
1:23
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.
1:24
Speaker 2: Committed, finding your person, building a bond, building a family,
1:33
Speaker 2: going from you and me to us kind of love.
1:37
Speaker 2: I know that love at first sight. I know that
1:40
Speaker 2: very phrase can make people cringe or question how can
1:43
Speaker 2: that really be?
1:44
Speaker 1: How can you possibly.
1:46
Speaker 2: Love someone just by looking at them. It happens to
1:51
Speaker 2: young people, it happens to older people. I know people
1:54
Speaker 2: that didn't even have love at first sight. They fell
1:56
Speaker 2: in love over the internet. They fell in love over
1:58
Speaker 2: the phone. They fell in love without ever touching one
2:02
Speaker 2: another's hands, ever kissing. I don't think it always happens
2:07
Speaker 2: just by looking at another person. I honestly believe it's
2:12
Speaker 2: two souls that recognize each other right away. Even still,
2:17
Speaker 2: people can meet the love of their life and veer
2:22
Speaker 2: off course or have different life goals, and sometimes it
2:26
Speaker 2: takes a minute for them to truly come back together.
2:29
Speaker 2: And that makes me think about the power of prayer.
2:33
Speaker 2: When we pray to God and ask him to send
2:35
Speaker 2: us a love, a partner for life, he doesn't always
2:39
Speaker 2: show that to us right away. Sometimes he does. Sometimes
2:43
Speaker 2: we have to wait and learn patience and learn trust.
2:47
Speaker 2: And in this episode of Have a Little Faith, I
2:50
Speaker 2: want to explore and share some really sweet examples of
2:55
Speaker 2: folks who have found their way through life to their
3:00
Speaker 2: true love at First, we have Brianna, who tells me
3:04
Speaker 2: that I get credit for her choosing to stay in
3:08
Speaker 2: the relationship with the love of her life. Lead's find
3:12
Speaker 2: out what this is all about.
3:15
Speaker 3: Hi, Delilah, my name is Brianna.
3:18
Speaker 1: What can I do for you tonight?
3:20
Speaker 3: Well, I have a bit of a story for you.
3:23
Speaker 2: Tell me your story and tell me what I can
3:25
Speaker 2: do to enrich your life.
3:27
Speaker 4: I called you about sixteen years ago something like that.
3:32
Speaker 4: I had met my husband exactly twenty years ago today.
3:35
Speaker 4: We met online. And eleven years after that, I had
3:40
Speaker 4: called you. It was twenty sixteen and it was August
3:45
Speaker 4: and I was gushing about this guy that I had met,
3:47
Speaker 4: and he said, well, why haven't you flowed out to
3:50
Speaker 4: meet him. I was in Florida and he was in Oregon.
3:53
Speaker 4: And I said, well, I'm young, I'm like, you know,
3:56
Speaker 4: twenty four. I can't do that yet. And he said
3:58
Speaker 4: why not? And that night I booked a fight flew
4:02
Speaker 4: to Oregon. In December of twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen,
4:09
Speaker 4: he flew to Florida to stay for two weeks and
4:13
Speaker 4: decided two days before his two weeks were up, she
4:16
Speaker 4: was not going to go back to Oregon and he
4:19
Speaker 4: was just going to move here. We got married in
4:22
Speaker 4: twenty twenty into an apartment together. Twenty twenty one we
4:26
Speaker 4: had our first son, twenty twenty four we just had
4:30
Speaker 4: our daughter, and twenty twenty five we bought our first house.
4:35
Speaker 2: So I wonder what would happen if you had called
4:37
Speaker 2: the radio station and that person would have said, you
4:40
Speaker 2: are too young to know what real love is. Don't
4:43
Speaker 2: be crazy, don't be foolish, don't be throwing your life
4:46
Speaker 2: away on somebody that lives four thousand miles away. Forget
4:50
Speaker 2: about him. Yeah, instead you called a pathetic, hopeless romantic
4:54
Speaker 2: who always wants to believe that real love wins.
4:58
Speaker 4: Yep. So we listen to you and kind of thank
5:02
Speaker 4: you for being the turning point, I want to say,
5:07
Speaker 4: and the starting point of what has been a whirlwind
5:12
Speaker 4: of an adventure together. And on the twenty second we
5:16
Speaker 4: will celebrate our six years married.
5:19
Speaker 2: And look at the little family God has created through
5:21
Speaker 2: you too. Yes, ma'am, let me play a song to
5:26
Speaker 2: celebrate the long distance love that became.
5:29
Speaker 1: The forever love. Thank you so much, God, bless you,
5:32
Speaker 1: bless you, bless.
5:33
Speaker 4: You, Thank you, ma'am, you too.
5:36
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, a question that I
5:39
Speaker 2: have asked many times over the years on this show.
5:44
Speaker 2: Do you believe in love at first sight? Have you
5:48
Speaker 2: ever fallen in love with someone the instant you met them.
5:52
Speaker 2: Maybe it didn't even meet them face to face, but
5:55
Speaker 2: it was an instant connection and you just knew. Some
6:00
Speaker 2: people say they experience that and they are still with
6:03
Speaker 2: that person many years later. And just a moment, I'm
6:08
Speaker 2: going to talk with a gentleman who claims that he
6:11
Speaker 2: knew from day one that his person was his person.
6:18
Speaker 2: Long before he knew how to tie his shoes, he
6:22
Speaker 2: was in love. This cute story, this forever love story
6:27
Speaker 2: coming up next, Good evening. You've called the Delilah Shall
6:32
Speaker 2: Who is this?
6:34
Speaker 1: Hello is Raoul.
6:36
Speaker 5: I've got through to you one time before, and you
6:39
Speaker 5: know I told you a story about the one girl
6:42
Speaker 5: I was with at that time, and it was not
6:46
Speaker 5: It turned out to be so bad. But then I
6:50
Speaker 5: ended up getting back in contact with my childhood friend
6:56
Speaker 5: that I knew from preschool, and then we dated for
7:00
Speaker 5: a week in fifth grade and now she's my wife,
7:05
Speaker 5: and now we have five beautiful children together.
7:09
Speaker 1: You had a crush on her when you were house old.
7:13
Speaker 5: I loved her, and I've always told her this. I've
7:17
Speaker 5: loved her since preschool, since the day I laid eyes
7:21
Speaker 5: on her.
7:22
Speaker 2: And now you and your person have made five little
7:25
Speaker 2: people together.
7:26
Speaker 5: Yes, after years of years of being in and out
7:31
Speaker 5: of each other's lives, and she came at to me
7:34
Speaker 5: at the right time. I was sold down. You know,
7:38
Speaker 5: I had a lot going on, and she stuck by me.
7:43
Speaker 5: You know, even after I'd messed up with her, and
7:47
Speaker 5: she's still you know, instead of leaving me, she still
7:50
Speaker 5: stuck by me and decided that I was the one
7:54
Speaker 5: and I deserved a second chance. And ever since then,
7:59
Speaker 5: you know, I've been good. You know I got on
8:03
Speaker 5: the right track, and she stuck by me through diick
8:07
Speaker 5: and thin, and she showed me what unconditional above is.
8:11
Speaker 5: She showed me what I always thow in my mother
8:14
Speaker 5: and my father's relationship.
8:16
Speaker 2: And you're going to spend the rest of your life
8:18
Speaker 2: showing her that you were worthy of that.
8:20
Speaker 1: Trust, right of course. Good for you. Good for you.
8:25
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.
8:27
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, let me see what I can
8:29
Speaker 2: do for you.
8:30
Speaker 1: You have a great night.
8:32
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling again, Thank you for calling for
8:34
Speaker 2: the right time, the right woman, the right situation, and
8:41
Speaker 2: God bless you and your family, your kids, everybody.
8:45
Speaker 5: Thank you, Delilah. Also, just to let you know, I've
8:48
Speaker 5: been listening to you since my father put me on
8:52
Speaker 5: to you when I was a little child, and I'm
8:55
Speaker 5: thirty six now, and you helped me through some of
8:58
Speaker 5: the hardest times of mine.
9:00
Speaker 2: Well, you stay tuned, and hopefully I will be here
9:03
Speaker 2: through the good times, the family times, the kids growing
9:07
Speaker 2: up times.
9:09
Speaker 6: You will.
9:10
Speaker 1: Good night, honey, A great night, Raoul.
9:13
Speaker 2: I pray that the Lord watches over you and the
9:16
Speaker 2: beautiful family you have woven together. I pray that our
9:20
Speaker 2: heavenly Father continues to give you the strength to be
9:24
Speaker 2: the man he intended you to be. I am so
9:28
Speaker 2: proud of you, young man. You know, one of the
9:33
Speaker 2: things I love most about my job, my career, being
9:39
Speaker 2: on the air with you at night, is getting to
9:41
Speaker 2: know you and being a part of your family, a
9:46
Speaker 2: part of your road.
9:47
Speaker 1: Trips, road trips.
9:50
Speaker 2: Being in the passenger seat along with you on those
9:53
Speaker 2: long road trips, being there for anniversaries and birthdays and
9:58
Speaker 2: wedding showers and baby showers, just being a part of
10:03
Speaker 2: the fabric of your life. And just a moment, I'm
10:08
Speaker 2: going to get to talk to an old friend that
10:11
Speaker 2: I haven't met yet and play a song for the
10:14
Speaker 2: thirty years that we have shared together. Stay tuned for
10:18
Speaker 2: that coming up next. Hi, Michelle, what can I do
10:23
Speaker 2: for you?
10:24
Speaker 7: Oh?
10:24
Speaker 3: I just want to let you know that for thirty
10:26
Speaker 3: years you have made my life so much more better
10:30
Speaker 3: and manageable just by listening to your show and I
10:33
Speaker 3: love it.
10:34
Speaker 1: Thank you. Oh my gosh, that's so sweet.
10:38
Speaker 3: Thank you. I heard you talking about Soulties earlier on
10:43
Speaker 3: your call for your letter that you got, and I
10:48
Speaker 3: have my own. And we were apart for twenty five years.
10:52
Speaker 3: We met, went our own ways, you know, had children,
10:56
Speaker 3: and we got back together in twenty seventeen. And he
11:00
Speaker 3: is everything that I never had and wished I would have,
11:06
Speaker 3: and I've got him now and he is my everything.
11:09
Speaker 1: And what is his name?
11:11
Speaker 3: His name is Brian.
11:13
Speaker 1: So how old were.
11:13
Speaker 2: You when you first fell in love and your soul
11:17
Speaker 2: tie happened and then you lost your way?
11:21
Speaker 3: I was twenty six and then we parted ways. He
11:25
Speaker 3: went in the military and I came back and went
11:29
Speaker 3: back home, and he got married and I got married
11:33
Speaker 3: and we didn't meet back up again until I was
11:36
Speaker 3: forty seven.
11:37
Speaker 2: And when you met back up again, when you got
11:40
Speaker 2: back together, did it feel like no time had passed?
11:44
Speaker 3: Actually it did. We went right back to being able
11:48
Speaker 3: to talk the way.
11:50
Speaker 1: We used to.
11:51
Speaker 3: And he's the only person I have ever met that
11:56
Speaker 3: he ground me where I'm usually utter chaos, you know, everywhere.
12:03
Speaker 3: He is my calm and my storm, and he keeps
12:07
Speaker 3: me grounded, and he keeps me level and calm, and
12:12
Speaker 3: he is absolutely amazing.
12:14
Speaker 2: So you too, compliment each other perfectly, very much so.
12:19
Speaker 1: And what song can I play? I'll let you pick,
12:22
Speaker 1: all right, I'll find a sweet one.
12:24
Speaker 2: I'm glad you found your way back to each other
12:27
Speaker 2: and glad that God is blessing you.
12:30
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much, and thank you Delilah, because
12:33
Speaker 3: you are definitely a bright spot in my life and
12:37
Speaker 3: I am so glad to keep in there.
12:38
Speaker 1: Thank you for the sweet word.
12:40
Speaker 2: Sonny, You have a good night, even though Valentine's Day
12:45
Speaker 2: has passed, celebrating love, romantic love, committed love, head over heels, stupid, smiling,
12:54
Speaker 2: love never grows old, never goes out of.
12:56
Speaker 1: Style, and you don't need a holiday to celebrate the
13:01
Speaker 1: one you love.
13:02
Speaker 2: And just a moment, I'm going to find a song
13:05
Speaker 2: to try to express what our next caller can't quite
13:11
Speaker 2: put into words. She needs a song that is more
13:15
Speaker 2: than words for the one that she loves with more
13:19
Speaker 2: than all of her heart. That sweet story coming up next,
13:25
Speaker 2: Good evening, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
13:29
Speaker 1: Who is this?
13:31
Speaker 7: No way you're kidding?
13:34
Speaker 1: My name is Amy, Hi, Amy, I'm not kidding. It's me.
13:39
Speaker 1: What can I do for you?
13:41
Speaker 7: Wow? I've been listening to you since I was a
13:43
Speaker 7: little girl. I have grown up with you. You've been
13:46
Speaker 7: a constant voice in my head and I appreciate it
13:50
Speaker 7: very much.
13:51
Speaker 1: Well, now that you made it through, what can I
13:54
Speaker 1: do for you?
13:55
Speaker 4: Well?
13:56
Speaker 7: I have listened to you my whole life, as I said,
13:59
Speaker 7: and every single time I'm in the car with my
14:03
Speaker 7: lovely husband of almost fifteen years, I have said I
14:08
Speaker 7: want to be one of those sappy girls who calls
14:10
Speaker 7: in and tells Alilah about her lovely husband. And tonight
14:16
Speaker 7: I decided to do that.
14:17
Speaker 2: All right, you've got the floor, You've got my undivided attention.
14:21
Speaker 2: Tell me about your lovely husband.
14:23
Speaker 1: His name? What made you go? He's the one we.
14:28
Speaker 7: Were twenty one years old and he was my best
14:35
Speaker 7: friend from the moment I met him, and a few
14:39
Speaker 7: months later we got married. We met in church at
14:44
Speaker 7: seventeen through a mutual friend, and we lost.
14:49
Speaker 3: Touch because kids do.
14:51
Speaker 7: And then a few years later he contacted me thinking
14:55
Speaker 7: that I was one of his classmates and I wasn't.
14:57
Speaker 7: And then we got to talking and we became friends
15:01
Speaker 7: and close, and we had dinners and we started to date,
15:05
Speaker 7: and then a couple months later he said, hey, I
15:09
Speaker 7: really like to spend the rest of my life with you,
15:11
Speaker 7: and I said, hey, I'd really like to marry you,
15:14
Speaker 7: and then we did. And he's been everything. I mean,
15:20
Speaker 7: he's every friend I speak to this says I just
15:24
Speaker 7: want this, and a guy he's that, he's he's here,
15:28
Speaker 7: he's there, he's everywhere, he's everything. He's patient and kind
15:34
Speaker 7: and love and he's just he's amazing.
15:39
Speaker 1: You are a very fortunate woman. What song can I
15:42
Speaker 1: play for you?
15:43
Speaker 7: His song for me and my song for him. I
15:46
Speaker 7: would go more than words. I love that song and
15:50
Speaker 7: it's everything I think as him.
15:52
Speaker 2: I will play it for you and you two have
15:55
Speaker 2: a great rest of your week. Thank you for letting
15:59
Speaker 2: me be your pilot. And the soundtrack for your romance.
16:03
Speaker 7: O Wilah, thank you for being the voice on the
16:06
Speaker 7: radio that brings me home every single night.
16:09
Speaker 1: God bless you.
16:11
Speaker 2: Do you ever watch science fiction movies or read books
16:16
Speaker 2: like A Wrinkle in Time fantasize about having a time machine?
16:23
Speaker 2: I had a son named Zachariah that God called home
16:28
Speaker 2: several years ago, and when he was a young man,
16:31
Speaker 2: he was fascinated with the book of Wrinkle in Time,
16:34
Speaker 2: and he was convinced he was a time traveler.
16:37
Speaker 1: And who knows.
16:39
Speaker 2: I suspect I will not have a visitation from him
16:43
Speaker 2: until I get to Heaven and get to be with
16:45
Speaker 2: the Lord. But I believe we have a very unique
16:51
Speaker 2: time machine available to all of us right here on
16:57
Speaker 2: the radio. Each night, I can invite you to step
17:01
Speaker 2: into my time machine, the Delilah time Machine, And I'm
17:04
Speaker 2: going to do just that coming up next.
17:10
Speaker 1: Hi, Eric, how are you tonight?
17:13
Speaker 6: Now? I'm doing very well.
17:15
Speaker 5: How are you?
17:15
Speaker 1: There's a big smile in your voice.
17:17
Speaker 2: What can I do to make it even brighter and
17:20
Speaker 2: even a brighter wider smile?
17:24
Speaker 6: Well, I have been listening to you for over twenty years,
17:28
Speaker 6: and I have been waiting for the best story to
17:30
Speaker 6: tell you, and it finally had come true this last Saturday.
17:37
Speaker 6: So twenty nine years ago, I dated this beautiful girl.
17:42
Speaker 6: We were young and just free and in love and
17:46
Speaker 6: had that wonderful summer and it was that six months
17:50
Speaker 6: of love until the Navy took me away. Of course,
17:54
Speaker 6: I joined the Navy to better myself, to hopefully have
17:58
Speaker 6: a future for she and I, and unfortunately life had
18:03
Speaker 6: other plans and contact and everything made it hard to
18:07
Speaker 6: stay in touch, and we ultimately lost our way, lost
18:13
Speaker 6: our contact, and for so many years, all twenty nine years,
18:18
Speaker 6: it was always her and we both went in and
18:20
Speaker 6: out of relationships. Both had marriages that you know, didn't
18:25
Speaker 6: work out. And God said, you know, check off, just
18:29
Speaker 6: check on Kerrie. You checked on her for years. Just
18:31
Speaker 6: see how she's doing. That'll make you feel better. And
18:33
Speaker 6: always put the smile on her face to know she's
18:35
Speaker 6: doing okay. And I found out she was single, and
18:39
Speaker 6: I was like, no way, you know. So I reached
18:42
Speaker 6: out to her and we hadn't stopped talking since, and
18:46
Speaker 6: here I moved one thousand miles away, and on Saturday,
18:49
Speaker 6: I got down on that knee and I proposed to
18:51
Speaker 6: the one that was meant to be all along, and
18:54
Speaker 6: she said, yes, God showed the way, and here I am.
18:59
Speaker 2: So what year was this when you two were kids
19:02
Speaker 2: and falling head over heels in love the first time?
19:06
Speaker 6: The nineteen ninety six was when we were head over
19:10
Speaker 6: heels the first time.
19:11
Speaker 2: Music is the ultimate time machine. You hear the first
19:16
Speaker 2: two notes three notes of that song, and boom, you're
19:21
Speaker 2: back there, sitting on the grass around a campfire next
19:27
Speaker 2: to the lake, seventeen eighteen years old, again falling in
19:31
Speaker 2: love for the first time.
19:32
Speaker 1: Is it not? Is it not a time machine?
19:35
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
19:36
Speaker 5: It is.
19:37
Speaker 6: You are so right about that.
19:38
Speaker 2: All right, I will play a sweet song for you
19:41
Speaker 2: and Carrie. Lord bless the second half. You might have
19:45
Speaker 2: missed out on some of the first half, but I
19:47
Speaker 2: pray that the Lord blesses the second half of your life.
19:51
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, Delilah, God bless you. I love you
19:54
Speaker 6: so much. You are amazing, and thank you for all
19:56
Speaker 6: the years I know.
20:01
Speaker 2: Sometimes we have love that comes into our life just
20:04
Speaker 2: for a season, Relationships that come to prepare us, to
20:08
Speaker 2: teach us, to bless us, to open our eyes, to
20:12
Speaker 2: help us work through unresolved issues. Sometimes you actually have
20:17
Speaker 2: met the person you're supposed to spend your life with
20:21
Speaker 2: be wise always and be open to that possibility. You
20:26
Speaker 2: can find me on the radio seven days a week
20:29
Speaker 2: and Monday through Friday. You can call me and share
20:32
Speaker 2: your stories if you have questions about faith, if you
20:36
Speaker 2: are exploring the possibility that there just might be a
20:40
Speaker 2: higher power that takes more than a casual interest in
20:46
Speaker 2: our lives and you want to talk about it, or
20:49
Speaker 2: you have a strong faith and you want to share
20:52
Speaker 2: how God has enriched your life, blessed your life, orchestrated
20:56
Speaker 2: your life. You can call me every night on the
21:00
Speaker 2: radio and I will take your calls and they might
21:04
Speaker 2: end up on the radio, they might end up in
21:06
Speaker 2: this podcast. Have a little faith, so find me, find
21:11
Speaker 2: me and come home to the radio and my darling.
21:15
Speaker 1: I hope you have a little faith.
21:18
Speaker 2: I hope you have the faith of a mustard seed,
21:21
Speaker 2: because you can move a mountain with that faith. Thank
21:25
Speaker 2: you for letting me share this time with you.
21:30
Speaker 6: Del