On this episode for NaPodPoMo I share about an experience I had at work and how I handled it. I also discuss why I was able to handle it the way in which I did due to my faith.
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The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
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That's us, dude.
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Oh, yeah.
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Hello, everyone.
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Welcome back to Randy Unscripted.
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I'm Randy Black, and this is another entry into my NAPOD POMO challenge.
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That's the national podcast post month where podcasters around the world are pushing themselves
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to create and publish 30 episodes in 30 days. It's all about creativity, consistency, and community.
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And today here on my NAPOD POMO 2025 episode number four, I want to kind of talk about something that
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happened to me in the way that I responded, in the way that I handled it, because I kind of
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surprised myself. So I work in education, in technology, and I had an event happen where I was
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at a school to take care of something. And as I go in and proceed to do so, one of the staff
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members of the school comes in and, you know, very, very rudely tells me to get out of their way,
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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
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taken care of. And the rudeness did not stop. It continued on from there.
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And I know that in the past, I would not have responded the way I did because I simply stepped
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back, put myself back out of the way and leaned on a cabinet that was there and waited on them to
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finish and move on. Because for whatever reason, what they had to do was far more important than
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what I needed to do to them. So, you know, as I'm leaning back there and I'm thinking about
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the situation, thinking about what just happened, and we have that time in our lives, you know,
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especially as Christians, which I am a Christian, a lot of people know that,
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where you feel that voice come up that's like, that person can't do that to you. You can't let
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them get away with that. And that's the adversary. That's the enemy. That's the devil creeping in,
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trying to get you to react and to act in a way that's not Christ-like and is unchristian.
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I had that come up and my first reaction was to simply lean back further on the cabinet.
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Quietly to myself, I started praying.
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I said, Lord, 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.
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Not hold the grudge.
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Not be angry.
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Not be upset.
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Simply do what I came to do and take care of it.
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And it was absolutely the most amazing feeling.
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It's like all that weight that was sitting on my shoulders in reaction to the way this person had come in and responded and done things was gone.
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You know, I've been a Christian for a big chunk of my life, but 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 sometimes the answer is no longer to try to correct things.
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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.
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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 that I didn't lose my cool.
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That I didn't get angry.
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That I didn't get upset.
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that I let God take over, let Jesus step in, touch my heart, and ask them to be forgiven
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for what they did, for the way they reacted. That was powerful. That was moving.
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By the time I got to my office later on in the day and 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,
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I almost let someone have it, let myself lose control, let myself respond poorly,
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but I didn't. That I stopped and I prayed and the compulsion, the feeling, it all went away.
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It was such an amazing thing. I cannot stress enough how powerful prayer can be,
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how amazing prayer can be, and how that it can help change things in your life.
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It leads me to the idea that I need to keep doing more to share my faith, that I need to
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keep pushing forward and having people to understand where it is that I'm getting this from.
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And it all comes from knowing that I have sinned, that I have fallen short of God's glory,
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that if I don't step up and make the changes to accept him and accept his son, that the wages of
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sin is death, that God has given us the ability to have eternal life through his son Jesus by asking
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him to come into our heart and to be our savior and to change us. The idea that God demonstrated
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his own love toward us even while we were sinners by giving his son to die for us,
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And that if we take the time to simply confess with our mouth that we believe Jesus is the Lord,
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is our Savior, 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 and will spend eternity in heaven with the Lord and with Jesus and with everyone
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else who's saved. Man, that's powerful. Today, for some reason, stopping and saying that prayer
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and asking Jesus to take over, asking for forgiveness or giving forgiveness to that
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person and asking the Lord to help me, to Jesus to help me to deal with that and handle that
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situation best shows that those decisions I've made, 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 a better person,
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has made me perform better as a human being. Just thought that that was a powerful thing that
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happened today, and I wanted to share it. Some people may be turned off by this episode. They
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that profession of faith by sharing what happened to me and how it relates back to my choices and
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my decisions in my faith. But, you know, if people are offended and hurt by it, I'm sorry.
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I'm not going to hold back from what the truth is in my life. So remember that we are still in
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NAPOD POMO. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this special episode of Randy Unscripted
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as part of my series for NAPOD POMO. We are looking to try to do a podcast every single day of the
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month, all 30 days, 30 podcasts, 30 days. If you're a podcaster, think about becoming or you're
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thinking about becoming one. I encourage you to join in on this challenge for NAPOD POMO.
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create, share, experiment. There is no better time than right now to add your voice to the
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conversation. Until next time, keep learning, stay curious in what you're doing,
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and I'll catch you on the next episode of Randy Unscripted.
