But when you really trust in God, you have a courage. You see it coming, you meet it, and you keep on trucking!
Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.
I also work with the spirituality of people.
I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course I've had to give up that southern style way of cooking.
I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.
I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.
I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.
I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.
I know one thing - it's cheaper to make Joan of Arcadia.
I like to sing very much.
I mean there are people that never have a conversation with anybody but the checker at the supermarket or the person at the cleaners.
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
I was feeling great. So I don't even know how long I had had type 2 diabetes. I have no family history of diabetes whatsoever.
I work with things that have to do with high blood pressure and diabetic conditions.
If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.
It's very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they don't often coincide.
My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.
My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.
People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.
People keep asking me - people on the street approach me about Touched by an Angel.
So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
The way some of them talk, it's as if I was personally responsible for taking it off the air, but there was nothing I could do.
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.
They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.
Touching people is very rewarding to me.
We don't have scripts planned that we intend to do - that keeps it fresh.
We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.
We might have a script planned for next week and then something important might happen, and we address that then.
We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.
What was so upsetting was I didn't really know anything about diabetes except that Ella Fitzgerald lost her legs and later died from it.
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.
You don't have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
While Della was still bedridden and recovering from rheumatic fever, there was a lady that came into her life. Her name was Bernice White. She was a beautiful young lady in her early twenties. Bernice was a pretty, bright, and a most loving human being. Bernice and her husband moved into one of the apartments downstairs in the same building where Della lived. Bernice would come and stay with Della when Della's mother worked at the restaurant. Bernice had fun entertaining Della during her recuperation. Unbeknownst to Della at the time, she was actually teaching Della by inventing all sorts of educational games. Therer were games that taught Della my letters, games that taught her to spell. By the time Della fully recovered from the rheumatic fever and got up out of bed, she could recite her alphabet and say her numbers to one hundred. Bernice was an excellent teacher for Della. Of course Della didn't know it at the time.
Della Reese: In the event you haven't observed yet about me as a small child, I've always been an all or nothing kind of person. When I was three years old I was pronounced gravely ill with rheumatic fever. Of course that was over sixty years ago. Without all the medical advances that have been made since then, rheumatic fever was a very scary thing back then. Rheumatic fever is an infection that first attacks the joints. In it's most severe form it affects the heart and can do permanent damage. The systoms tend to recur and recurring attacks tend to weaken the heart. The doctors told my mother that I had the worst case possible. They were very pessimistic. The illness would damage my circulatory system, and I would never walk again. Of course my mother didn't fear it. She said that there was no way she was going to accept their prognosis. My mother told me that I was going to be well soon and that the illness was not coming back, and the reason why was because she had prayed and God was taking care of it. My mother took me to see her faith healer whose name was sister Kenny and when my mother's faith healer told her that God was taking care of it and he did. After I was healed I rarely ever got sick again. My mother was a strong believer in prayer and believed that God would answer all her prayers and he did.
There was a church in Della's neighborhood that everybody attended and the name of the church was Olivet Baptist Church. Della and her mother had lots to do there all day on Sunday. Della and her mother attended Sunday school and the church services after Sunday school, and then they would serve the food after the services, and then they went to gospel singing practice, and the meeting of the Baptist Young People's Union after the gospel singing practice. Della loved every minute of it. More than anything, church was getting together time. The familes that attended could socialize and the kids could run and play and sing. Della really liked the singing part.
Della's mother was a psychic in many ways. Over the years Della's mother often gave Della warnings. For example when she had a bad feeling about Della riding the school bus that day. And then sure enough Della wouldn't ride the bus that day, and the bus ended up in an accident. Della was convinced she had to be a witch.
Della's mother and father had very different methods of teaching. Della's father's approach was to give Della direct instructions or information. Della's father would say it once and then ask Della if she would understand what he just told her, but before she could answer him he would continue explaining. Della didn't have time to explain anything to her father. Della's mother on the other hand had to know every detail of what, how, and why. And when Della's mother gave her instructions she could talk for a week. Della's mother would explain it so many ways, in so many details until there was no possibility of any doubt or wondering look on Della's mother's face.
After Della's parents were married for a couple of years, her mother thought that she had a tumor in her stomach. She went to be examined, and the doctor told her that she didn't have a tumor. She was seven months pregnant. She was pregnant with Della. She was forty two years old when she gave birth to Della. After Della was born Della's mother and father didn't have any more children. She was the last child that was born.
Della Reese landed her very first professional tour at the age of thirteen, singing backup for Mahalia Jackson.
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