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How Faith Changed My Reaction - NaPodPoMo 2025 #4 · Randy Unscripted

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  Randy Black: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
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  Or see.
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  That's us, dude. Oh,
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  yeah.
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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Randy Unscripted. I'm Randy Black, and this is another entry into my napod
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  promo challenge.
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  That's the national
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  podcast post month where podcasters around the world are pushing themselves to create and publish
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  30 episodes
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  in thirty days.
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  It's all about creativity,
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  consistency,
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  and community.
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  And today here on my napod promo twenty twenty five episode number four, I wanna kinda talk about something that happened to me
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  in the way that I responded and the way that that I handled it because I kinda surprised myself.
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  So
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  I work in education,
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  in technology, and I had an event happen where I was
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  I was at a school to to take care of something. And as I go in and proceed to do so, one of the staff members of the school comes in and,
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  you know, very,
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  very rudely
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  tells me to get out of their way, that they need to get to their computer because what they need to do is important.
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  And I said back, okay. But I'm here to fix something for you. I'm just trying to get that taken care of.
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  And
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  the rudeness did not stop. It continued on from there.
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  And
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  I know that in the past,
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  I would not have responded
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  the way I did
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  because I simply stepped back,
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  put myself back out of the way, and leaned on a cabinet that was there and waited on them to finish and and move on.
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  Because for whatever reason, what they had to do was far more important than what I needed to do to them.
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  So,
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  you know, as I'm as I'm leaning back there and I'm I'm thinking about the situation, thinking about what just happened,
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  and
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  we have that that that time in our lives,
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  you know, especially as Christians, which I am a Christian, a lot of people know that,
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  where
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  you feel that voice come up that's like,
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  that that person can't do that to you. You you can't let them get away with that.
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  And that's that's the adversary. That's the enemy. That's the devil creeping in trying to get you to react and to to act in a way that's
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  not Christ like and is unchristian. And
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  I had that come up, and
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  my first reaction was to simply
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  lean back further on the cabinet.
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  Quietly to myself, I started praying.
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  I said, Lord,
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  help me.
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  Help me to not be upset at this individual.
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  Help me to move past this situation.
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  Take care of the problem and fix it for them,
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  and then move on. Not hold the grudge,
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  not be angry, not be upset,
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  simply do what I came to do and take care of it.
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  And
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  it was absolutely
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  the most amazing feeling. It's like all that weight
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  that was setting on my shoulders
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  in reaction to the way this person had
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  come in and responded and done things
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  was gone.
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  You know? And I've I've been a Christian for a big chunk of my life, but
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  I've never reacted that way to a situation.
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  I've learned as I've gotten older now that I'm middle aged that
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  sometimes
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  the answer is no longer to
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  to try to correct things, no longer to step in and try to show people a way that things should be done.
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  Just walk away.
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  Just let it happen. Move on and pray for them.
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  And that's what I did.
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  And I was so proud of myself
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  that I didn't lose my cool,
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  that I didn't get angry, that I didn't get upset,
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  that I let God take over,
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  let Jesus step in,
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  touch my heart,
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  and ask them
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  to be forgiven for what they did, for the way they reacted.
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  That was powerful.
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  That was moving.
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  By the time I got to my office later on
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  in the day and my
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  my wife texted me to ask how the day was,
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  I replied back and told her, it's going pretty good, but I had a moment this morning where I almost I almost
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  let someone
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  have it, let myself lose control,
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  let myself respond poorly,
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  but I didn't.
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  That I stopped and I prayed
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  and the the compulsion, the feeling, it all went away.
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  It was such an amazing thing.
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  I cannot, you know, stress
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  enough
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  how powerful,
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  prayer can be, how amazing
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  prayer can be,
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  and how that it can help change things
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  in your life.
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  You know, it it leads me to the idea that
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  I need to keep doing more to share
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  my faith,
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  that I need to keep pushing forward
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  and having people to
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  understand
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  where it is
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  that
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  I'm getting this from.
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  And it all comes from knowing that
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  I have sinned,
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  that I have fallen short of God's glory,
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  that if I don't step up
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  and make the changes to accept him and accept his son,
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  that the wages of sin is death,
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  that
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  God has given us the ability to have eternal life through his son Jesus
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  by asking him to come into our heart and to be our savior and to change us.
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  The idea that God demonstrated
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  his own love toward us
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  even while we were sinners
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  by giving his son
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  to die for us.
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  And that if we take the time to simply confess with our mouth
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  that we believe Jesus
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  is the Lord, is our savior,
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  and believe that in our heart, and that God raised him from the dead,
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  that we can be saved and we can move on to heaven after our time on this earth ends,
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  And that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, everyone who asks for that
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  will be saved,
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  and we'll spend eternity in heaven with the Lord and with Jesus and with everyone else who's saved.
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  Man, that's powerful.
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  Today, for some reason,
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  stopping and saying that prayer and asking
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  Jesus to take over, asking for forgive or giving forgiveness to that person and asking the Lord to to help me, to Jesus to help me to deal with that and handle that situation best
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  shows that those decisions I've made,
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  making my way down that path to salvation
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  by becoming a Christian, by accepting those things in my life has made me
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  a better person,
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  has made me
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  perform better as a human being.
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  Just thought that that was a powerful thing that happened today, and I wanted to share it.
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  Some people
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  may be turned off by this episode. They may be turned off by me sharing this, by sharing that profession of faith,
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  by sharing what happened to me,
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  and how it relates back to
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  my choices and my decisions in my faith.
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  But, you know, if that's if if people are offended and hurt by it, I'm sorry.
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  I'm not gonna hold back from what the truth is in my life.
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  So remember that.
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  We are still in Napod Pomo.
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  Thank you for taking the time to listen to this special episode of Randy unscripted as part of my series for napod promo.
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  We are looking to try to do sing a podcast every single day of the month, all thirty days. 30 podcasts,
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  thirty days.
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  If you're a podcaster,
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  think about becoming or or or you're thinking about becoming one.
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  I encourage you to join in on this challenge for napod promo.
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  Create,
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  share,
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  experiment.
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  There is no better time than right now
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  to add your voice to the conversation.
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  Until next time, keep learning, stay
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  stay curious in what you're doing, and I'll catch you on the next episode of Randy unscripted.
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  Oh,
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  yeah.