Delayed Delivery: A Christmas Story Read by Dr. James Dobson
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Dr. James Dobson
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seven days before Christmas, on a cold, snowy late afternoon, a widow named Stella received a surprise delivery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to Family Talk. |
| 0:01.9 | It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, welcome to a very special edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. |
| 0:23.8 | And from all of us here at the JDFI, Merry Christmas, from our household to yours. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Roger Marsh, and on this special edition of Family Talk, we're going to hear a classic program that Dr. |
| 0:33.9 | Dobson voiced a couple of years ago for us. |
| 0:36.2 | It's a Christmas story called Delayed Delivery. But as we begin today's program, we have a special greeting that Dr. Dobson and his wife Shirley recorded for that program a couple of years ago, a very meaningful moment for us and for the Dobsons. Now that Dr. Dobson has gone home to be with the Lord. So here's how that program begin on December 25th, |
| 0:54.5 | 2023. Well, hello, everyone. I'm James Dobson, and thanks for spending a part of this marvelous Christmas |
| 1:02.2 | day with us. With me in the studio is my beloved wife Shirley, and, you know, I really do wish |
| 1:08.9 | you could see her. She's all decked out in red and white for the occasion. |
| 1:14.9 | Thanks, Jim. I hope our listeners agree with me that this is the most important time of the year. |
| 1:21.6 | Everything we care about is embodied in Christmas, from children to families, to friends, and of course the good food, |
| 1:30.2 | and especially the celebration of the Christ child. |
| 1:33.9 | Because of his birth and resurrection, we have the promise of eternal life. |
| 1:39.3 | So ring the Christmas bells that you brought, Shirley, as we say together, Merry Christmas, everyone. |
| 1:49.3 | Dear friends, approximately 20 years ago, I collaborated with several authors to prepare a book |
| 1:56.2 | entitled A Family Christmas. It consisted of nine classic short stories that will warm your heart. |
| 2:04.6 | They were illustrated throughout with prints of wonderful paintings by acclaimed artist and my friend |
| 2:11.3 | the late Gerald Harvey. A family Christmas is no longer in print, which I regret because it captured the soul of the Yuletide season. |
| 2:22.9 | Thus, I have chosen to devote my letter this month to an excerpt from a book that is no longer available. |
| 2:30.7 | And I begin with this. |
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