The Role of Faith in Building Unbreakable Resilience

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Randy Black: Now that we have those announcements out of the way, let’s get started with today’s episode.

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Randy Black: One of the recurring threads throughout our conversation so far on this podcast.

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Randy Black: It’s about the idea that resilience isn’t about pretending that everything’s okay.

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Randy Black: It’s about having something deep enough, solid enough to hold on to when things definitely aren’t okay.

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Randy Black: And time after time, we’ve come back to one foundational truth in all that.

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Randy Black: Faith plays a crucial role in how we endure and how we rebuild.

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Randy Black: We saw this clearly back in episode two when we talked about Jim’s four pillars of resistance.

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Randy Black: Faith was a central support beam holding things together.

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Randy Black: And in episode five, with Dr.

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Randy Black: Brad Miller joined us, he asked, he used it or he unpacked for us his axe plan.

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Randy Black: Again, faith stood out as one of the clear guiding forces

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Randy Black: That helps guide people move from adversity to purpose.

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Randy Black: Those weren’t just surface-level mentions.

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Randy Black: Faith was the common thread, part of the undercurrent driving lasting resilience.

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Randy Black: So today we’re kind of continuing in that same direction.

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Randy Black: We’re digging into some powerful scriptures that shine a light on what true resilience looks like from a biblical perspective.

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Randy Black: We’re not rushing through verses.

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Randy Black: We’re taking time to unpack them, reflect on them, and explore how they apply in real life.

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Randy Black: Whether you’re currently feeling pressed, pulled, or just plain worn out.

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Randy Black: These scriptures offer clarity, comfort, and challenge.

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Randy Black: And we’re here to walk you walk through them with you, not as preachers, but as fellow travelers who believe there’s something deeply grounded in God’s word

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Randy Black: When the world around us shakes.

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Randy Black: So, Jim, let’s get into it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.

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Randy Black: We’re going to start out with our first scripture from my list here.

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Randy Black: Uh, and all these scriptures are from the NIV translation.

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Randy Black: uh of the Bible.

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Randy Black: It’s one of the most commonly used today, one of the most easily accessible.

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Randy Black: It’s a little more accessible than the King James, and I love the King James version of the Bible.

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Randy Black: Uh it’s very very flowing and and and colorful language the way it describes things.

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Randy Black: But the NIV is a little easier for for a lot of people to follow, so that’s why we’re using it here today as we go through these scriptures.

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Randy Black: So our first scripture

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Randy Black: is from Pa Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16.

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Randy Black: And it says, For though the righteous fall seven times

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Randy Black: they rise again.

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Randy Black: But the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

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Randy Black: This verse kind of highlights that

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Randy Black: Resilience is not about never experiencing failure.

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Randy Black: It’s never about experiencing setbacks, but it’s about the determination to get back up each time that we fail.

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Randy Black: That phrase there seven times, it symbolizes completeness, indicating that even repeated failures do not define us.

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Randy Black: Instead, it is the repeated choice to rise that marks the righteous.

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Randy Black: This reminds us that perseverance is a continual process.

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Randy Black: It’s a mindset that separates those who endure from those who give up when things get tough.

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Randy Black: We can relate this to everyday life, where setbacks are inevitable, but how we respond to them.

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Randy Black: is what shapes our character.

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Randy Black: What do you think, Jim?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, the one thing that sticks out with me in that right there, you used the word determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, some people are just determined to get it done no matter what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, when it going gets tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re going to push through.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re not going to give up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you use this word, and I say this whole time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say it probably 15 times a day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about your mindset, the ability.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Get up eight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know the old saying, if you can look up, you can get up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But do you want to get up?

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See there’s the kicker to the deck.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta have some kind of driving force that’s pushing you forward.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some people don’t have one.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they don’t know what their reasons are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re just making excuses.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And excuses, you know, those are the exit ramps to failure.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you you start getting those babies, you know, you always have excuses, but you don’t always have opportunities.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, is that it the experiences, those are lessons.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything you do is not gonna be perfect.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t exist.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t exist.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s more like consistency.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Talked about that today with some of my students.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re not going to be perfect.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There’s only one perfect person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, that’s the head coach up here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, we can’t compare ourselves to that

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, so you gotta be consistent.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you could be consistently good.

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Randy Black: You could be consistently good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whoa, you could be the opposite.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you probably know some that are a little bit of both.

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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, when it’s w when you’re in those good times, see that’s when people don’t pay attention

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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re not reading what’s happening.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you know the old saying, you’re just one step away.

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Coach Jim Clayton: from something happening that you don’t really want to happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t know when that’s gonna come about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t know when somebody’s going to call you and say, you know, I mean, from the health problems, you know, down to personal problems to marriage problems to money problems.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, there’s a multitude of problems

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Coach Jim Clayton: But the thing you gotta remember in that is you always have more blessing than you have problems.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes we just forget that

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it’s all about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You ain’t thinking about nobody but you.

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Randy Black: We’re not seeing the big picture.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, you’re not seeing the big picture.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s not that you can’t.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just your train of thought.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And a lot of people, you know, the bottom line is they just don’t know how to flip the switch to go from one train of thought to a complete different train of thought.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s something that you gotta want to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s something that you can seek out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s something there are opportunities every day for you to learn and grow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s great.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What happens is people, they gotta grow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t grow when you come from something.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s where people like to start.

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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then that causes what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That causes a lot of problems.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Randy Black: When you become complacent, stop growing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s a success disease.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So that’s how I look at that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like my determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like my mindset.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like things to be completed, not halfway done

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And blame somebody.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I could I I’ve got not interesting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not as interesting excuses.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m interested in results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re not delivered then.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So there you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Randy Black: So just just to make everything may make everybody aware of this, Jim did not see these ahead of time.

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Randy Black: Like I handed him to him as he walked in the room.

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Randy Black: Oh sorry.

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Randy Black: He’s he’s he’s he’s hearing me read these scriptures and discuss ’em and and giving his actual reaction, what he feels when he hears this and and his what his his take is on it.

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Randy Black: So it’s it’s it’s an interesting concept to for him to he just walked in blind on blind on this one.

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Randy Black: But you know, it’s it’s it’s more fun that way.

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Randy Black: I like that.

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Randy Black: I like to get yes from the heart from the heart and it’s his natural reaction and feeling

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Randy Black: So our second verse, our second scripture here is from Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31.

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Randy Black: And the way when you hear this one

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Randy Black: It’s going to be a theme you pick up on that you’ve probably heard a little bit before some stuff with this.

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Randy Black: But it’s, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

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Randy Black: They will soar on wings like eagles.

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Randy Black: They will run and not grow weary.

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Randy Black: They will walk and not be faint.

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Randy Black: So, what this passage is speaking to is the deep well of strength that comes from placing our hope and our trust in God.

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Randy Black: It acknowledges that human strength has its limits.

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Randy Black: But that God provides a renewal for those who lean on him.

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Randy Black: The imagery moves from soaring to running to walking, recognizing that resilience doesn’t always look the same.

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Randy Black: It adapts to our circumstances and our seasons of life, to the changes we’re facing.

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Randy Black: Sometimes we feel empowered to soar.

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Randy Black: Sometimes we could just keep putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward.

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Randy Black: The key is that this strength is not self-generated, but it is replenished by God’s grace.

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Randy Black: What do you think, Jim?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, again, I I just look for key words in that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I like the word hope and I like the word trust.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because you gotta believe in that

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta believe that he’s got your back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when I think about that, I think of, and you look at, you know, getting strength and, you know, human strength, it does have its limits, but God has no limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I believe that the problems that I have and the problems that you have and the problems that anybody else has had.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those are all unique problems that have been placed on us by God.

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Coach Jim Clayton: My problems aren’t your problems.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So how did he how did all these people get different stuff?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know why?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because we’re all different.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He only made one of us.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He broke the mold.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re born an original, you know, to stand out.

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Randy Black: Well, I’m a twin, so not completely original, but you know

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Randy Black: So I get the idea.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I get what you’re saying.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But not to blend in.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see people do that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They they blend in.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, you talk about starting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta start somewhere with one step.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta keep moving.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, for a lot of people, they fake it till they make it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I answered faking it.

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Randy Black: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like a like a story about a gentleman I just read the other day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know anything about that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s not a good diagnosis

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those people don’t survive that.

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Randy Black: No, they don’t.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So the doctor sent him home.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Said, we can’t do anything for you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He could hardly walk.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So he started walking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Started walking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Might take him 30 minutes to walk 10 feet, but by God he did it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then he walked 20 feet, then 30 feet, then 40 feet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then he started jogging.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next thing you knew, he was running

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now here’s the kicker.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Thirty years later, he’s still here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He runs marathons, he runs triathlons, he runs Iron Man competition.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now

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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re talking about strength.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re talking about limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He had no limits.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What he got to lose?

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Coach Jim Clayton: He put his faith where it is and said, look, here’s what I’m going to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s my season

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m gonna run with it.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not giving up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: The answer hey, there you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s still kicking.

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Randy Black: And still running.

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Randy Black: Yeah, and and to make it this number of years.

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Randy Black: With that is dramatic.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How does that happen?

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How does that happen?

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Randy Black: How does that happen?

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Randy Black: Because God found a purpose for him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: God went through with him

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, God if he opens your eyes, he’s not through with it.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He got something for you to do.

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Randy Black: Some sometimes, you know, it’s it’s about

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Randy Black: having the patience to see what he’s gonna allow to happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah we don’t see the we we we we get blurred.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it’s not the patience of what

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Coach Jim Clayton: He see it’s what we want.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Randy Black: And it’s not even not even just the patience, though.

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Randy Black: It’s having the endurance to have that patience, to be able to hang on and and and not give up, not walk away.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, his God’s time is not our time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, what God, I need you to do this for me right now.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh excuse me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s not how it works.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s just not how it works.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see a lot of people they only they only ask for God’s word when they need something

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not digging that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so he put you in these positions, Lord, he’s put me in, oh my gosh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So many of them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it is what it is.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Randy Black: And I like and I I know that I am in the position I’m in working with you because God opened that door for me.

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Randy Black: And you know, I you know, it’s like we talked about previously.

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Randy Black: When I found out how sick you were, I came here and I stood in the middle of that courthouse.

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Randy Black: I remember that, like it was.

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Randy Black: And I hugged you and we prayed.

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Randy Black: Yep.

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Randy Black: And

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Randy Black: That was what I needed to do to show God, I’m opening this door.

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Randy Black: I’m gonna do what I can to be there for Jim.

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Randy Black: And then you immediately come back at me with, I want to do that podcast.

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Randy Black: I want to get started on it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, if it wasn’t for you, I’ll if it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

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Randy Black: It took us a while to get to that.

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Randy Black: Doesn’t matter.

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Randy Black: But it’s it’s given us the opportunity, through his will, through his grace, to be able to do what we’re doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there’s no question about it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you just can’t give up.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, people in my condition

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s their biggest thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They just get to feel sorry for themselves.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t be a winner.

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Randy Black: Well, and our next scripture is going to play into that a little bit.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t be a winner and a whiner at the same time.

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Randy Black: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s easy to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In this situation, when you get when somebody gives you something, you know, and they say, man, that’s that’s tough, man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you ever gonna yeah yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, get out of my what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where there’s a will, there’s a what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, some people just need to get a backbone, but they got a wishbone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m not interested in a wisdom.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They need to get a backbone and just get down and let’s go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s get it done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We can make this happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: People do things

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Coach Jim Clayton: The fur there’s a first for a lot of things every day that turn out to be fantastic thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But somebody else should do it first.

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Randy Black: Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then it’s easy to be second, third, or fourth, but who’s got the power to do it first?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who’s the ones that can step out, stand up, not blend in, not be afraid, have that competitiveness, that drive, that will, that determination.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And ambition, not a big chicken.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Randy Black: So we’re gonna go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 8 and 9.

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Randy Black: And this is the apostle apostle Paul writing here.

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Randy Black: And he said

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Randy Black: We are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed, but not in despair.

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Randy Black: Persecuted, but not abandoned

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Randy Black: Struck down, but not destroyed.

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Randy Black: His words here are painting a realistic picture of suffering and of adversity

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Randy Black: Affirming that that hardship is part of the Christian experience.

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Randy Black: Yet he’s emphasizing that these trials don’t have to be the final word.

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Randy Black: Despite being hard-pressed or struck down, believers in Christ are not crushed or destroyed.

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Randy Black: It’s teaching us that resilience

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Randy Black: involves recognizing the reality of pain while holding on to hope and God’s sustaining power.

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Randy Black: It’s encouraging us

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Randy Black: honestly about struggles while affirming the unbreakable spirit God provides even in the darkest moments.

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Randy Black: It’s acknowledging hardship without surrender.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, people are gonna s you’ve had some kind of suffering.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve had some kind of suffering.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve had some type of all kinds of adversity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody who’s listening to this in the world has had both those things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But what’d you do about it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What you doing about it?

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gonna have a pity party?

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Randy Black: Your reaction has to have some type of of play in this, how you react to it.

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Randy Black: Like it’s it’s not a matter of

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Randy Black: I mean you can do that, but what’s that ultimately going to prove?

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Randy Black: Nothing.

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Randy Black: Nothing.

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Randy Black: It’s not going to do anything for you.

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Randy Black: Weak.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When the crap hits the fan, some people run and some people stuck.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well you know there’s people in your life, in my life that have run.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They run, run, run, run.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know some people that face the fire

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bring it on, okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Again, think about it, you gotta have thick skin.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you gotta be tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, here’s a funny one

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Coach Jim Clayton: My four-year-old granddaughter, Mighty Heidi, she’s looking at me, she says, Pop up, how’s your back?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I just had a biopsy on Tuesday.

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Randy Black: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they stuck a big needle in my back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She says, Did that hurt?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m sure it did, but I was knocked out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And uh she goes, Papa, she goes, you’re tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, Mighty, you’re tough too

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Coach Jim Clayton: And she kept saying, You’re tough.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And and I just kind of I was sitting there and I’m thinking, now that’s a four year old.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t complain about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She asked me, is it hurt?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it sore?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it this?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, no.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything’s good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I really, I mean, it’s I you know I I’m not complaining

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just something you gotta deal with.

424
00:20:35,000 –> 00:20:38,120
Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, again, you gotta have faith over fear.

425
00:20:38,120 –> 00:20:38,600
Randy Black: Yes.

426
00:20:38,600 –> 00:20:40,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, you know, fear is just

427
00:20:40,840 –> 00:20:43,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Fear is something that is gonna be with you.

428
00:20:43,320 –> 00:20:45,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Like I have a fear of snakes.

429
00:20:45,480 –> 00:20:46,039
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

430
00:20:46,039 –> 00:20:47,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t like snakes.

431
00:20:47,080 –> 00:20:48,919
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care if they’re in a picture

432
00:20:48,860 –> 00:20:52,299
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t care and I don’t and I’m not gonna get around.

433
00:20:52,299 –> 00:20:55,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah if I see one I’m going the other direction.

434
00:20:55,500 –> 00:20:56,139
Coach Jim Clayton: Sorry.

435
00:20:56,139 –> 00:20:57,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, let’s work on that, coach.

436
00:20:57,980 –> 00:20:59,100
Coach Jim Clayton: We can get I’m not as

437
00:21:00,220 –> 00:21:01,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t need snakes in my life.

438
00:21:02,380 –> 00:21:12,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s a lot of snakes that slither on like snakes, snakes, reptiles, and there’s a lot of snakes in life that are not rep they’re not the slithering kind, you know what I mean?

439
00:21:12,300 –> 00:21:13,420
Coach Jim Clayton: On the ground

440
00:21:13,440 –> 00:21:17,039
Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, again, you just can’t give up.

441
00:21:17,039 –> 00:21:17,360
Randy Black: Yeah.

442
00:21:17,360 –> 00:21:18,639
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you just can’t give up.

443
00:21:18,639 –> 00:21:20,799
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not the final word unless you say something.

444
00:21:20,799 –> 00:21:21,200
Randy Black: Yeah.

445
00:21:21,200 –> 00:21:23,600
Randy Black: It’s about uh resilience here is about

446
00:21:24,019 –> 00:21:28,820
Randy Black: Um having emotional and spiritual perseverance.

447
00:21:28,820 –> 00:21:31,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, how bad do you want to overcome this?

448
00:21:31,299 –> 00:21:32,019
Randy Black: Yes.

449
00:21:32,019 –> 00:21:33,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that’s the question.

450
00:21:33,760 –> 00:21:35,760
Coach Jim Clayton: So how bad do you want it?

451
00:21:35,760 –> 00:21:43,919
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, uh, mmm, you know, I’m thinking, okay, you know, I teach shooting.

452
00:21:43,679 –> 00:21:44,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Down here at work with shooting.

453
00:21:44,960 –> 00:21:46,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I said let me give you an example.

454
00:21:46,240 –> 00:21:47,679
Coach Jim Clayton: Who’s the best shooter in the world?

455
00:21:47,679 –> 00:21:49,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Steph Curry.

456
00:21:49,520 –> 00:21:50,559
Coach Jim Clayton: No question.

457
00:21:50,559 –> 00:21:52,559
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, let me give you a breakdown of Steph Curry

458
00:21:53,120 –> 00:21:56,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Steph Curse sees 500 shots a day, seven days a week.

459
00:21:56,560 –> 00:21:58,400
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s 3,500 shots a week.

460
00:21:58,800 –> 00:22:02,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Multiply that times a year, that’s 168,000 shots a year.

461
00:22:02,800 –> 00:22:05,520
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s been doing it for 15 years.

462
00:22:04,860 –> 00:22:05,980
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s over 2.

463
00:22:05,980 –> 00:22:06,860
Coach Jim Clayton: 3 million.

464
00:22:07,260 –> 00:22:11,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, in his MBA career, he’s only made 36,000 shots.

465
00:22:11,740 –> 00:22:16,620
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s less than one-tenth of one percent of all the shots that he took to get there.

466
00:22:16,620 –> 00:22:17,899
Randy Black: Yeah.

467
00:22:17,620 –> 00:22:21,460
Coach Jim Clayton: But when you watch him, you go, oh, that looks so easy.

468
00:22:21,460 –> 00:22:21,940
Randy Black: Yeah.

469
00:22:21,940 –> 00:22:22,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

470
00:22:22,900 –> 00:22:23,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

471
00:22:23,620 –> 00:22:25,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Till you try it.

472
00:22:25,300 –> 00:22:28,900
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and you know, people say, oh, I want to be like him

473
00:22:29,320 –> 00:22:35,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you might want to be like him, but are you doing the things that it takes to be like?

474
00:22:35,560 –> 00:22:36,840
Randy Black: Are you willing to put in the work?

475
00:22:37,080 –> 00:22:39,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, no, I don’t want to do that.

476
00:22:38,860 –> 00:22:40,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Well then guess what?

477
00:22:40,059 –> 00:22:41,179
Randy Black: You’ll never be like him.

478
00:22:41,179 –> 00:22:42,940
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re never gonna be like him.

479
00:22:42,940 –> 00:22:45,019
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s gonna go watch him.

480
00:22:45,019 –> 00:22:46,620
Coach Jim Clayton: But there’ll be another person.

481
00:22:46,620 –> 00:22:50,779
Coach Jim Clayton: But see, it it doesn’t matter whether it’s Death Curry or you’re

482
00:22:51,120 –> 00:22:56,640
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, uh uh tennis Roger Federer, who was a legend in tennis, you know.

483
00:22:56,640 –> 00:22:58,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Or you can go back to any sport.

484
00:22:58,800 –> 00:23:01,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Jack Nicholas.

485
00:23:01,040 –> 00:23:03,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, what those guys do?

486
00:23:04,760 –> 00:23:05,720
Randy Black: They all practiced.

487
00:23:05,880 –> 00:23:09,320
Randy Black: They all they all put in all the time they needed to hone their skills.

488
00:23:09,800 –> 00:23:11,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything in life comes down to one word.

489
00:23:12,440 –> 00:23:13,400
Coach Jim Clayton: RIP.

490
00:23:13,240 –> 00:23:13,880
Randy Black: Yes.

491
00:23:13,880 –> 00:23:15,480
Coach Jim Clayton: How many times do you do it?

492
00:23:15,480 –> 00:23:16,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

493
00:23:16,040 –> 00:23:17,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Look at your technology job.

494
00:23:19,880 –> 00:23:24,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You know how all those buttons, you know all they work, you know what you’re I got no clue.

495
00:23:24,200 –> 00:23:24,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

496
00:23:25,040 –> 00:23:31,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Now you can teach me a few little tricks of the trade here, but I’m never gonna be you because that’s just not what I do.

497
00:23:31,360 –> 00:23:31,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

498
00:23:31,920 –> 00:23:35,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s okay because you’re the expert in that, but how’d you get that one

499
00:23:36,260 –> 00:23:37,299
Randy Black: A lot of work.

500
00:23:37,299 –> 00:23:38,740
Randy Black: A lot of a lot of lot of tracking.

501
00:23:38,899 –> 00:23:42,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody taught you just doing it over and over and over.

502
00:23:43,220 –> 00:23:44,980
Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of research, a lot of hands-on in.

503
00:23:44,980 –> 00:23:46,820
Coach Jim Clayton: How long are we gonna do this, Coach?

504
00:23:46,860 –> 00:23:50,299
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna do it so long, son, you can’t get it wrong.

505
00:23:50,299 –> 00:23:56,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah that means over and over and over and then over and over and over and over and over some more.

506
00:23:56,539 –> 00:23:59,899
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah now here’s the real deal who’s willing to do that

507
00:24:00,560 –> 00:24:01,760
Randy Black: That’s the big question.

508
00:24:01,760 –> 00:24:02,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Not very many people.

509
00:24:02,720 –> 00:24:03,280
Randy Black: Not a lot.

510
00:24:03,280 –> 00:24:07,280
Coach Jim Clayton: But the ones that are, guess what they are?

511
00:24:07,280 –> 00:24:08,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Ultra what?

512
00:24:08,400 –> 00:24:09,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Successful?

513
00:24:09,200 –> 00:24:10,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Absolutely.

514
00:24:10,080 –> 00:24:11,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And anybody can do it.

515
00:24:11,520 –> 00:24:12,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

516
00:24:12,080 –> 00:24:14,640
Coach Jim Clayton: But was everything perfect for them?

517
00:24:15,920 –> 00:24:22,800
Coach Jim Clayton: They went this way, they went north, they went south, they went sideways, but they never went.

518
00:24:23,380 –> 00:24:24,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Stop.

519
00:24:24,100 –> 00:24:26,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s no elevator to the penthouse here.

520
00:24:26,580 –> 00:24:27,780
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s just steps.

521
00:24:27,780 –> 00:24:29,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s called the process.

522
00:24:29,780 –> 00:24:33,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody who doesn’t give up.

523
00:24:34,240 –> 00:24:36,160
Coach Jim Clayton: They did two things.

524
00:24:36,160 –> 00:24:39,280
Coach Jim Clayton: They went through the process and they paid the price.

525
00:24:39,679 –> 00:24:43,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don’t do those two things, guess what?

526
00:24:43,720 –> 00:24:45,800
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you can ask for help along the way.

527
00:24:45,800 –> 00:24:47,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You guys help me God.

528
00:24:47,160 –> 00:24:50,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I need I need no he helps oh you gotta help yourself.

529
00:24:50,680 –> 00:24:51,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Help yourself

530
00:24:52,220 –> 00:24:54,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Prove to him that you really want it.

531
00:24:54,060 –> 00:24:54,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

532
00:24:54,460 –> 00:24:55,660
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a test.

533
00:24:55,660 –> 00:24:57,500
Coach Jim Clayton: How bad do you want it?

534
00:24:57,500 –> 00:25:02,700
Coach Jim Clayton: I know what you say, but you know, actions speak a lot louder than your words.

535
00:25:03,340 –> 00:25:03,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

536
00:25:03,900 –> 00:25:04,540
Randy Black: Yeah

537
00:25:05,220 –> 00:25:06,260
Randy Black: So let’s go on.

538
00:25:06,260 –> 00:25:07,380
Randy Black: Number four.

539
00:25:07,380 –> 00:25:11,060
Randy Black: James, and James is my favorite book in the Bible.

540
00:25:11,060 –> 00:25:14,100
Randy Black: James chapter 1, verses 2 through 4.

541
00:25:14,160 –> 00:25:26,720
Randy Black: And it says here, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

542
00:25:26,640 –> 00:25:34,160
Randy Black: Let Perseverance finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything

543
00:25:34,620 –> 00:25:44,860
Randy Black: James here is challenging us to view the trials we face from a radically different perspective, not to see them as obstacles to avoid.

544
00:25:44,940 –> 00:25:50,460
Randy Black: But to see them as, and you’re going to love this, Jim, as opportunities for growth.

545
00:25:50,460 –> 00:25:54,940
Randy Black: It doesn’t mean that you we’re pretending to be happy about hardship

546
00:25:55,260 –> 00:26:02,059
Randy Black: But recognizing that God uses these moments to refine our faith and build perseverance inside of us.

547
00:26:02,059 –> 00:26:05,740
Randy Black: Perseverance is portrayed as an active process.

548
00:26:05,940 –> 00:26:07,299
Randy Black: It can’t be passive.

549
00:26:07,299 –> 00:26:08,820
Randy Black: It has to be active.

550
00:26:08,820 –> 00:26:12,899
Randy Black: Then it leads us to spiritual maturity and wholeness.

551
00:26:12,899 –> 00:26:18,419
Randy Black: And this passage from James invites us to embrace difficulties in our lives.

552
00:26:18,320 –> 00:26:28,560
Randy Black: as necessary steps in our development and it challenges people to reflect on how their own hardships have shaped their character.

553
00:26:28,560 –> 00:26:28,880
Randy Black: Oh

554
00:26:29,620 –> 00:26:31,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Key word here I like trial.

555
00:26:32,340 –> 00:26:34,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I got another word for that I use every day.

556
00:26:34,820 –> 00:26:35,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Lessons.

557
00:26:35,620 –> 00:26:36,340
Randy Black: Yes.

558
00:26:36,340 –> 00:26:37,780
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re lessons.

559
00:26:37,780 –> 00:26:40,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And you get your most growth.

560
00:26:42,320 –> 00:26:44,240
Coach Jim Clayton: In times of failure.

561
00:26:44,240 –> 00:26:45,440
Randy Black: Yes.

562
00:26:45,440 –> 00:26:47,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Not in times of success.

563
00:26:48,799 –> 00:26:51,840
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s when the opportunities.

564
00:26:52,040 –> 00:26:54,120
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re everywhere’s what.

565
00:26:54,120 –> 00:26:56,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you’re thinking a little bit more what?

566
00:26:56,920 –> 00:26:57,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Creative.

567
00:26:58,520 –> 00:27:00,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what?

568
00:27:00,280 –> 00:27:03,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Looking at it as what you said, an obstacle.

569
00:27:03,320 –> 00:27:03,960
Randy Black: Yeah

570
00:27:04,280 –> 00:27:05,400
Coach Jim Clayton: An obstacle.

571
00:27:05,400 –> 00:27:08,760
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s something that’s in your way.

572
00:27:08,760 –> 00:27:12,760
Coach Jim Clayton: It isn’t stopping you unless you let it stop you.

573
00:27:13,000 –> 00:27:14,200
Randy Black: Yes, yes, yes.

574
00:27:14,240 –> 00:27:15,360
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s on you.

575
00:27:16,000 –> 00:27:19,200
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s always gonna be on you.

576
00:27:19,200 –> 00:27:21,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Whether you do or you don’t.

577
00:27:21,600 –> 00:27:22,800
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s on you.

578
00:27:22,800 –> 00:27:23,440
Randy Black: Right

579
00:27:23,560 –> 00:27:27,400
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not on your mom, your dad, your coach, your teacher, your boss.

580
00:27:27,400 –> 00:27:28,840
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s on you.

581
00:27:28,840 –> 00:27:31,000
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a choice.

582
00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:32,680
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a choice.

583
00:27:32,680 –> 00:27:33,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And we are

584
00:27:34,720 –> 00:27:35,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Our choices.

585
00:27:35,840 –> 00:27:37,200
Randy Black: Yes, we are.

586
00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:48,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s when I look at that, you know, and again when you get to the part which says you’re not lacking anything, that means, man, you are on your path to success.

587
00:27:48,220 –> 00:27:49,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You got the tool.

588
00:27:49,980 –> 00:27:53,020
Coach Jim Clayton: See the lessons produce the tools.

589
00:27:53,020 –> 00:28:01,180
Coach Jim Clayton: So I always say to people every year, this year when you start school, school’s getting ready to start for a lot of people.

590
00:28:01,940 –> 00:28:09,780
Coach Jim Clayton: You do not want to be the same version of you this year that you were last year.

591
00:28:10,340 –> 00:28:12,580
Coach Jim Clayton: So if you can’t count that as 2.

592
00:28:12,580 –> 00:28:13,940
Coach Jim Clayton: 0, we better be 3.

593
00:28:13,940 –> 00:28:14,580
Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

594
00:28:15,340 –> 00:28:18,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Or if you’re 10th grade, you might be 10.

595
00:28:18,220 –> 00:28:18,460
Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

596
00:28:18,940 –> 00:28:21,019
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well you’ve got to be better than 9.

597
00:28:21,019 –> 00:28:22,139
Coach Jim Clayton: 0.

598
00:28:22,139 –> 00:28:26,940
Coach Jim Clayton: So in order to make that happen, here’s what has to happen

599
00:28:27,419 –> 00:28:29,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the growth part of it.

600
00:28:29,740 –> 00:28:31,580
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the lesson.

601
00:28:31,580 –> 00:28:35,260
Coach Jim Clayton: You have to put some new tools in the box.

602
00:28:35,260 –> 00:28:36,140
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

603
00:28:36,960 –> 00:28:42,000
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s just certain tools that will fix certain things.

604
00:28:42,000 –> 00:28:44,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And other tools just won’t fix them.

605
00:28:44,240 –> 00:28:45,200
Randy Black: Right.

606
00:28:45,200 –> 00:28:48,720
Coach Jim Clayton: But if you got the same tools, guess what?

607
00:28:49,080 –> 00:28:50,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Same results.

608
00:28:50,280 –> 00:28:51,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

609
00:28:51,400 –> 00:28:56,520
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, if there’s an old saying that says if you want to keep on getting what you’re getting, just keep on doing what you’re doing.

610
00:28:56,840 –> 00:28:58,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Things don’t happen by chance.

611
00:29:00,360 –> 00:29:03,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta be the chance.

612
00:29:02,480 –> 00:29:06,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And again, that’s lessons.

613
00:29:06,080 –> 00:29:12,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are God’s lessons to you to see how bad you really want it.

614
00:29:12,400 –> 00:29:12,800
Randy Black: Yeah.

615
00:29:12,800 –> 00:29:14,240
Randy Black: It’s to help, it’s to help

616
00:29:14,620 –> 00:29:23,420
Randy Black: Build up to build up that that that perseverance inside you to be able to continue to push forward, to continue to do your best.

617
00:29:23,420 –> 00:29:26,700
Randy Black: And you said help, not hindrance, help.

618
00:29:26,700 –> 00:29:27,340
Randy Black: Yes

619
00:29:27,179 –> 00:29:28,460
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t see a tatwah.

620
00:29:28,700 –> 00:29:29,980
Coach Jim Clayton: So we don’t see a dawah.

621
00:29:30,220 –> 00:29:32,460
Randy Black: There are so many people like the like perspective.

622
00:29:32,460 –> 00:29:34,059
Randy Black: Here here’s an example

623
00:29:34,960 –> 00:29:39,520
Randy Black: We recently saw pretty devastating flooding take place down in Texas.

624
00:29:39,520 –> 00:29:39,840
Randy Black: Yeah.

625
00:29:39,840 –> 00:29:42,240
Randy Black: Down the Texas Hill Country, around Kerrville.

626
00:29:42,240 –> 00:29:45,440
Randy Black: And I know people who are there, people who live in the area

627
00:29:45,440 –> 00:29:48,320
Randy Black: And the devastation is just tremendous.

628
00:29:48,320 –> 00:29:53,200
Randy Black: But the first thing so many people say is, why would God do this?

629
00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:55,440
Randy Black: Why would God allow this to happen?

630
00:29:55,000 –> 00:29:58,600
Randy Black: Why would God, why are you questioning God on this?

631
00:29:58,600 –> 00:30:01,400
Randy Black: God didn’t just necessarily allow this to happen.

632
00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:04,280
Randy Black: Sometimes things just happen.

633
00:30:04,340 –> 00:30:08,340
Randy Black: And we’re not prepared for them, but they’re there to test us.

634
00:30:08,340 –> 00:30:09,700
Randy Black: They’re there to help us.

635
00:30:09,700 –> 00:30:13,380
Randy Black: They’re there to help us build up our strength.

636
00:30:13,340 –> 00:30:19,179
Randy Black: To be a stronger person, to be able to do our best to help those around us.

637
00:30:19,260 –> 00:30:26,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And the key thing is, a lot of the things that went wrong in that Texas situation,

638
00:30:27,600 –> 00:30:30,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are things that should have been fixed a long time ago.

639
00:30:30,720 –> 00:30:31,440
Randy Black: Oh yeah.

640
00:30:31,440 –> 00:30:35,760
Randy Black: They talked about this as a once-in-a-lifetime flood, and it wasn’t

641
00:30:35,060 –> 00:30:41,380
Randy Black: If you go back and look, it happened in the 1980s, it happened in the 1960s, it happened in the 1940s, it happened in the 1870

642
00:30:41,540 –> 00:30:44,020
Randy Black: It had happened many times before.

643
00:30:44,020 –> 00:30:46,820
Randy Black: So what happened sometimes?

644
00:30:46,820 –> 00:30:48,500
Coach Jim Clayton: He sent a message

645
00:30:49,040 –> 00:30:51,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Neglect.

646
00:30:51,200 –> 00:30:51,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

647
00:30:51,840 –> 00:30:55,440
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like it’s you know uh uh the longer you put off

648
00:30:56,340 –> 00:30:59,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Doing what you’re supposed to do, less chance it’s ever gonna happen.

649
00:30:59,940 –> 00:31:00,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

650
00:31:00,500 –> 00:31:02,820
Coach Jim Clayton: The law of diminishing intent.

651
00:31:02,820 –> 00:31:03,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

652
00:31:03,299 –> 00:31:04,820
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what that means.

653
00:31:04,820 –> 00:31:06,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Well see, we just put things off

654
00:31:08,180 –> 00:31:12,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Certain things in life have to take priority.

655
00:31:12,740 –> 00:31:14,500
Randy Black: They do.

656
00:31:14,500 –> 00:31:16,500
Coach Jim Clayton: They gotta take priority.

657
00:31:17,400 –> 00:31:22,679
Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes they don’t taper already because guess what?

658
00:31:22,679 –> 00:31:24,679
Coach Jim Clayton: It takes the focus off of you.

659
00:31:25,480 –> 00:31:27,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody’s about you.

660
00:31:27,480 –> 00:31:29,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Me, me, me, me, me.

661
00:31:29,080 –> 00:31:29,799
Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

662
00:31:29,799 –> 00:31:31,080
Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

663
00:31:31,380 –> 00:31:33,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever happened, what about we?

664
00:31:33,300 –> 00:31:34,660
Randy Black: Yeah.

665
00:31:34,660 –> 00:31:36,980
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you doing to help somebody else?

666
00:31:36,980 –> 00:31:39,860
Coach Jim Clayton: So things like this happen.

667
00:31:39,860 –> 00:31:40,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And then

668
00:31:41,620 –> 00:31:43,300
Coach Jim Clayton: We get a different what?

669
00:31:43,300 –> 00:31:44,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Perspective.

670
00:31:44,180 –> 00:31:45,140
Randy Black: Yes.

671
00:31:45,140 –> 00:31:46,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Ah.

672
00:31:47,780 –> 00:31:51,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, if we know what the problem is, and we know what the solution is

673
00:31:52,640 –> 00:31:56,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Then we gotta have a plan to put that in play.

674
00:31:56,160 –> 00:31:59,600
Coach Jim Clayton: That might take a couple years to do it, but guess what?

675
00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:01,200
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re moving towards it.

676
00:32:01,200 –> 00:32:04,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Some things in you can’t snap your fingers and go like bewitched.

677
00:32:04,640 –> 00:32:06,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, it’s happening.

678
00:32:06,040 –> 00:32:06,920
Coach Jim Clayton: There it is.

679
00:32:06,920 –> 00:32:07,640
Randy Black: Yeah.

680
00:32:07,640 –> 00:32:09,080
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s make believe.

681
00:32:09,080 –> 00:32:10,280
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

682
00:32:10,280 –> 00:32:11,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

683
00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:14,280
Coach Jim Clayton: So on on things like this, uh

684
00:32:15,019 –> 00:32:16,539
Coach Jim Clayton: It could be fixed.

685
00:32:16,539 –> 00:32:18,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything could be fixed.

686
00:32:18,380 –> 00:32:19,580
Coach Jim Clayton: It just takes time.

687
00:32:19,580 –> 00:32:20,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

688
00:32:20,059 –> 00:32:22,779
Coach Jim Clayton: But why you gonna wait till it’s broke to fix it?

689
00:32:22,779 –> 00:32:23,659
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

690
00:32:24,419 –> 00:32:26,419
Coach Jim Clayton: While she’s fixing Yeah.

691
00:32:26,419 –> 00:32:27,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

692
00:32:27,299 –> 00:32:28,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Well we’re lucky.

693
00:32:28,740 –> 00:32:29,860
Coach Jim Clayton: You wanna be lucky?

694
00:32:29,860 –> 00:32:30,980
Coach Jim Clayton: You wanna be skilled

695
00:32:31,919 –> 00:32:34,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

696
00:32:34,799 –> 00:32:36,559
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, there’s that word preparation.

697
00:32:36,559 –> 00:32:39,360
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s that word opportunity in you.

698
00:32:39,360 –> 00:32:43,039
Coach Jim Clayton: So when what I look at when I say preparation, opportunity.

699
00:32:43,060 –> 00:32:44,900
Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking at it and break it down a little further.

700
00:32:44,900 –> 00:32:48,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever you’re ready for, that’s what’s going to show up.

701
00:32:50,740 –> 00:32:54,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s no saying, I saw this another day, I love it.

702
00:32:54,180 –> 00:32:55,300
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going to use it.

703
00:32:55,300 –> 00:32:57,860
Coach Jim Clayton: When your feet show up.

704
00:32:57,120 –> 00:32:59,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Make sure your brain shows up with.

705
00:32:59,200 –> 00:33:00,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

706
00:33:03,200 –> 00:33:03,680
Randy Black: Yeah.

707
00:33:03,920 –> 00:33:10,000
Randy Black: It’s it it’s it’s an idea and it’s an idea that I fully believe that that the Lord is not going to put something in front of us

708
00:33:10,040 –> 00:33:11,240
Randy Black: that we can’t handle.

709
00:33:11,240 –> 00:33:11,960
Randy Black: Hundred percent.

710
00:33:11,960 –> 00:33:13,800
Randy Black: That we can’t find a way to work through.

711
00:33:13,800 –> 00:33:14,520
Randy Black: Hundred percent.

712
00:33:14,520 –> 00:33:19,480
Randy Black: If we if we don’t work through it, if we don’t make it through it, it’s because

713
00:33:20,480 –> 00:33:23,120
Randy Black: Something in his will said, well, we need to make change.

714
00:33:23,120 –> 00:33:24,320
Randy Black: We need this to happen.

715
00:33:24,880 –> 00:33:25,920
Randy Black: That’s how I see it.

716
00:33:25,920 –> 00:33:27,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I agree with you 100%.

717
00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:28,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I agree with you a hundred percent.

718
00:33:28,720 –> 00:33:30,400
Coach Jim Clayton: But see, some people get thinking like

719
00:33:31,400 –> 00:33:32,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Again, hey what?

720
00:33:32,440 –> 00:33:33,799
Coach Jim Clayton: He puts it in front of you.

721
00:33:33,799 –> 00:33:36,679
Coach Jim Clayton: He gives his toughest assignments to his toughest soldiers.

722
00:33:37,880 –> 00:33:39,559
Coach Jim Clayton: How tough are you?

723
00:33:39,559 –> 00:33:40,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

724
00:33:40,600 –> 00:33:42,919
Coach Jim Clayton: So when I got my assignment

725
00:33:43,679 –> 00:33:46,960
Coach Jim Clayton: With this cancer situation, I didn’t quite understand.

726
00:33:46,960 –> 00:33:49,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I oh I totally get it now.

727
00:33:49,600 –> 00:33:53,039
Coach Jim Clayton: But it took me a couple years, a year or so to figure it out.

728
00:33:54,480 –> 00:33:56,159
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you saying to me

729
00:33:56,240 –> 00:33:58,000
Coach Jim Clayton: What do you want me to do?

730
00:33:58,000 –> 00:33:59,360
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

731
00:33:59,360 –> 00:34:01,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, look at what we’re doing right now.

732
00:34:01,360 –> 00:34:01,920
Randy Black: Exactly.

733
00:34:01,920 –> 00:34:04,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And we’re gonna take this to a whole nother level.

734
00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:10,320
Randy Black: This is this is, you know, what you’ve what you’ve had to go through with everything that’s happened is what’s

735
00:34:10,420 –> 00:34:15,140
Randy Black: helped in a lot of ways, most ways, to pull you and I together to do this and work together.

736
00:34:15,460 –> 00:34:16,180
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s a reason.

737
00:34:16,180 –> 00:34:17,380
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s a connection.

738
00:34:17,380 –> 00:34:18,820
Randy Black: We there something

739
00:34:19,340 –> 00:34:20,140
Randy Black: Above us.

740
00:34:20,140 –> 00:34:21,340
Randy Black: For me, that’s God.

741
00:34:21,340 –> 00:34:22,220
Randy Black: For you, that’s God.

742
00:34:22,220 –> 00:34:22,540
Randy Black: Oh, that’s good.

743
00:34:22,780 –> 00:34:25,180
Randy Black: Other people may say it’s something else.

744
00:34:25,180 –> 00:34:33,740
Randy Black: But for us, God has brought us together to share this message, this content, what it is we’re putting together.

745
00:34:33,860 –> 00:34:37,380
Randy Black: Why, we may never know while we’re here.

746
00:34:37,380 –> 00:34:38,340
Randy Black: But you know what?

747
00:34:38,340 –> 00:34:42,980
Randy Black: The first thing I can do when I walk into heaven is I can go, hey God.

748
00:34:43,220 –> 00:34:45,299
Randy Black: Why did you put Jim and I together?

749
00:34:45,299 –> 00:34:47,299
Randy Black: And he can tell me this was the purpose.

750
00:34:47,379 –> 00:34:48,179
Randy Black: I can tell you why.

751
00:34:48,740 –> 00:34:49,940
Coach Jim Clayton: I can tell you why.

752
00:34:49,940 –> 00:34:52,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Because it’s to add value to other people.

753
00:34:52,579 –> 00:34:54,099
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the goal.

754
00:34:54,099 –> 00:34:55,299
Coach Jim Clayton: That is our goal.

755
00:34:55,299 –> 00:34:57,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You do that every day.

756
00:34:57,580 –> 00:35:03,900
Coach Jim Clayton: At the end of the day, when you park that head right on that pillar, whoo, that feels good.

757
00:35:03,900 –> 00:35:05,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ve had a what?

758
00:35:05,580 –> 00:35:08,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Significant day of significance.

759
00:35:08,240 –> 00:35:10,960
Coach Jim Clayton: So you don’t go, well today did that matter?

760
00:35:10,960 –> 00:35:11,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Did that matter?

761
00:35:11,600 –> 00:35:15,200
Coach Jim Clayton: See your brains pro our brains are programmed in 24 hours.

762
00:35:15,200 –> 00:35:17,600
Coach Jim Clayton: So whether we’ve had the greatest day ever

763
00:35:18,040 –> 00:35:21,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Or whether we’ve had the worst nightmare, guess what?

764
00:35:23,320 –> 00:35:24,200
Randy Black: Starts over.

765
00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:27,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, the great ones can learn from it, move on.

766
00:35:27,160 –> 00:35:27,640
Randy Black: Yeah.

767
00:35:27,640 –> 00:35:28,920
Coach Jim Clayton: The other people.

768
00:35:28,800 –> 00:35:31,680
Coach Jim Clayton: They didn’t learn from it and they keep carrying it on and carrying it on.

769
00:35:31,680 –> 00:35:35,680
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not the load that that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

770
00:35:35,680 –> 00:35:36,320
Randy Black: Yes.

771
00:35:36,560 –> 00:35:41,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And some people the load is light because they never let yesterday affect today.

772
00:35:41,680 –> 00:35:43,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Live, learn, move on.

773
00:35:43,620 –> 00:35:44,820
Randy Black: Yeah.

774
00:35:44,820 –> 00:35:50,900
Randy Black: Well, and that that plays into what our our fifth uh scripture is here a little bit, the way I see it.

775
00:35:50,900 –> 00:35:52,900
Randy Black: So Romans chapter 5.

776
00:35:53,020 –> 00:35:54,780
Randy Black: Verses three through five.

777
00:35:54,780 –> 00:36:00,619
Randy Black: And it says here, not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings

778
00:36:00,920 –> 00:36:10,520
Randy Black: Because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope.

779
00:36:10,780 –> 00:36:19,100
Randy Black: It provides a really powerful framework here in this scripture for understanding the purpose behind suffering that we face.

780
00:36:19,100 –> 00:36:22,300
Randy Black: It shows that pain, the difficulty,

781
00:36:22,520 –> 00:36:32,119
Randy Black: Are not necessarily meaningless, but they’re part of a transformative journey that’s leading us from perseverance to the formation of a godly character.

782
00:36:32,119 –> 00:36:35,480
Randy Black: And ultimately, it’s leading us to hope.

783
00:36:35,320 –> 00:36:39,000
Randy Black: Hope is not wishful thinking.

784
00:36:39,000 –> 00:36:43,800
Randy Black: Hope is a confident expectation that’s rooted in God’s love.

785
00:36:43,800 –> 00:36:46,440
Randy Black: That by glorifying in sufferings,

786
00:36:46,820 –> 00:36:53,380
Randy Black: Believers acknowledge that through endurance they become stronger and they become more hopeful.

787
00:36:53,380 –> 00:36:55,780
Randy Black: That’s what this scripture is putting out there for us.

788
00:36:55,780 –> 00:36:57,460
Randy Black: And it’s a chain reaction.

789
00:36:57,420 –> 00:37:00,700
Randy Black: suffering to perseverance to character to hope.

790
00:37:00,700 –> 00:37:05,260
Randy Black: It is a a continuum that flows through there, that it has purpose

791
00:37:05,460 –> 00:37:09,060
Randy Black: Suffering has purpose in our growth to get to hope.

792
00:37:09,060 –> 00:37:12,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Well you can take suffering, bad times, whatever.

793
00:37:13,140 –> 00:37:15,860
Coach Jim Clayton: On the other side of bad times or what?

794
00:37:16,099 –> 00:37:16,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Good times.

795
00:37:16,980 –> 00:37:17,780
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

796
00:37:17,859 –> 00:37:20,339
Coach Jim Clayton: You see, we’re stuck in the bad times.

797
00:37:20,339 –> 00:37:22,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, why does this happen?

798
00:37:22,980 –> 00:37:24,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

799
00:37:24,180 –> 00:37:26,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe you can answer it, maybe you can’t.

800
00:37:26,820 –> 00:37:29,380
Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, that’s the thing I like about hope.

801
00:37:30,100 –> 00:37:37,700
Coach Jim Clayton: It gives people a post that something good, you believe something good is gonna happen.

802
00:37:37,820 –> 00:37:42,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Doesn’t always you don’t know when, but you know it’s gonna happen.

803
00:37:42,540 –> 00:37:44,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And when it happens, you gotta be ready for it.

804
00:37:44,540 –> 00:37:45,100
Randy Black: Yes

805
00:37:45,540 –> 00:37:47,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean that that’s a big thing.

806
00:37:47,380 –> 00:37:49,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Perseverance, we all know.

807
00:37:49,220 –> 00:37:50,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Just can’t have that give up.

808
00:37:50,900 –> 00:37:55,300
Randy Black: You just can’t have that give up to Perseverance builds inner strength.

809
00:37:55,300 –> 00:37:56,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no question.

810
00:37:56,740 –> 00:37:58,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And character

811
00:37:58,880 –> 00:38:00,559
Coach Jim Clayton: John Wooten said this.

812
00:38:00,559 –> 00:38:07,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Character is who you really are, while reputation is merely what other people think you are.

813
00:38:07,760 –> 00:38:08,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

814
00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:10,559
Coach Jim Clayton: And as long as you know

815
00:38:11,480 –> 00:38:15,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And they think you’re always one step ahead of them.

816
00:38:15,480 –> 00:38:17,320
Coach Jim Clayton: They’ll never win the race.

817
00:38:18,440 –> 00:38:20,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I think about that.

818
00:38:20,340 –> 00:38:22,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Kurt, Kurt.

819
00:38:22,100 –> 00:38:22,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

820
00:38:22,980 –> 00:38:26,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You know the old say true colors come shining through?

821
00:38:26,580 –> 00:38:28,020
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s your character

822
00:38:28,240 –> 00:38:35,680
Coach Jim Clayton: So sometimes when you want to find out about a person’s character, strength, perseverance, see how they react.

823
00:38:35,840 –> 00:38:36,960
Coach Jim Clayton: See how they react to the suffering.

824
00:38:37,280 –> 00:38:38,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Something bad happened.

825
00:38:38,400 –> 00:38:38,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

826
00:38:38,880 –> 00:38:39,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

827
00:38:39,520 –> 00:38:40,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Here we go.

828
00:38:40,940 –> 00:38:42,460
Randy Black: I 100% agree with you.

829
00:38:42,460 –> 00:38:43,579
Coach Jim Clayton: And you see it every day.

830
00:38:43,579 –> 00:38:46,859
Randy Black: And it’s it you know, it’s it’s it’s testing them.

831
00:38:46,859 –> 00:38:50,540
Randy Black: How are how are they going to survive that test that’s placed in front of them?

832
00:38:50,540 –> 00:38:52,380
Randy Black: Which kind of goes along with the next one.

833
00:38:52,380 –> 00:38:53,339
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s the word?

834
00:38:53,339 –> 00:38:54,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Overreact?

835
00:38:54,460 –> 00:38:55,420
Randy Black: Yeah.

836
00:38:55,320 –> 00:38:58,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, sometimes you just need to not say anything.

837
00:38:58,840 –> 00:39:00,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

838
00:39:00,120 –> 00:39:01,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Bite your tongue.

839
00:39:01,160 –> 00:39:02,600
Randy Black: Yeah.

840
00:39:02,600 –> 00:39:04,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, listen.

841
00:39:05,760 –> 00:39:08,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Listening is a skill.

842
00:39:08,720 –> 00:39:13,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t learn and grow if you can’t listen.

843
00:39:13,840 –> 00:39:17,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Because when we talk, guess what we talk about?

844
00:39:17,040 –> 00:39:19,040
Coach Jim Clayton: We only talk about things we know.

845
00:39:19,040 –> 00:39:19,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

846
00:39:19,680 –> 00:39:24,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Or some things we think we know, but we don’t know.

847
00:39:24,400 –> 00:39:25,840
Coach Jim Clayton: We just act like we do.

848
00:39:25,840 –> 00:39:26,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

849
00:39:26,720 –> 00:39:34,480
Coach Jim Clayton: But I mean when you think about that, that perseverance, that hope, suffering, that’s just things you gotta go through.

850
00:39:34,480 –> 00:39:35,119
Randy Black: Yeah

851
00:39:35,240 –> 00:39:38,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything’s not gonna be peaches and cream every day.

852
00:39:38,440 –> 00:39:39,400
Randy Black: No, never.

853
00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:42,280
Coach Jim Clayton: But when it is, eat the heck out of it, baby.

854
00:39:42,760 –> 00:39:44,040
Coach Jim Clayton: But when it’s not

855
00:39:44,440 –> 00:39:45,720
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do about it?

856
00:39:45,720 –> 00:39:46,839
Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna get over it?

857
00:39:46,839 –> 00:39:47,480
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do?

858
00:39:47,480 –> 00:39:48,359
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna change?

859
00:39:48,359 –> 00:39:49,800
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do to make it different?

860
00:39:49,800 –> 00:39:52,680
Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna I mean that’s just gotta be your mindset.

861
00:39:52,680 –> 00:39:56,839
Coach Jim Clayton: Not feeling sorry for yourself and taking

862
00:39:57,340 –> 00:39:58,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

863
00:39:58,380 –> 00:40:02,460
Randy Black: Perfect perfect example of this goes right on with this next quote.

864
00:40:02,460 –> 00:40:03,500
Randy Black: And it’s from Job.

865
00:40:03,500 –> 00:40:06,540
Randy Black: And if you know anything about the book of Job, Job was tested.

866
00:40:06,540 –> 00:40:11,260
Randy Black: Job was put out there and tested and tormented, and things were done to Job that

867
00:40:11,980 –> 00:40:17,180
Randy Black: God allowed to happen because Job was the most righteous of the people.

868
00:40:17,180 –> 00:40:19,980
Randy Black: So this is from Job chapter 23, verse 10.

869
00:40:19,980 –> 00:40:24,300
Randy Black: And it says, But he knows the way that I take

870
00:40:24,440 –> 00:40:29,720
Randy Black: When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

871
00:40:29,720 –> 00:40:31,560
Randy Black: Job has a declaration here.

872
00:40:31,560 –> 00:40:33,400
Randy Black: It expresses that he has.

873
00:40:33,359 –> 00:40:39,839
Randy Black: An unbelieving deep trust in God’s refining work in his life through the trials.

874
00:40:39,839 –> 00:40:42,400
Randy Black: Gold is purified by fire.

875
00:40:42,400 –> 00:40:46,240
Randy Black: That’s how we make gold pure and more valuable.

876
00:40:46,760 –> 00:40:55,240
Randy Black: Believers are tested to remove the impurities and reveal their true value.

877
00:40:55,780 –> 00:41:08,740
Randy Black: This verse here reminds us that resilience is not only about surviving the hardships we face, but it’s about being transformed into something stronger and more precious.

878
00:41:08,840 –> 00:41:20,840
Randy Black: It encourages us here to trust God’s purpose behind our struggles, even when we don’t understand the immediate reasons for pain or for the testing that’s taking place.

879
00:41:21,140 –> 00:41:26,260
Randy Black: We are refined by the struggles to become something greater.

880
00:41:26,579 –> 00:41:28,579
Coach Jim Clayton: I hear these words here again.

881
00:41:28,579 –> 00:41:29,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

882
00:41:30,260 –> 00:41:31,779
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust in the Lord.

883
00:41:31,779 –> 00:41:32,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust in him.

884
00:41:33,320 –> 00:41:45,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean if you really stop and think about, everybody would stop and think about what has gone on in my life that I’ve done or has been done to me

885
00:41:45,860 –> 00:41:49,220
Coach Jim Clayton: That realistically I might not I I shouldn’t be here.

886
00:41:50,420 –> 00:41:52,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Why am I still here?

887
00:41:52,580 –> 00:41:53,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Ooh.

888
00:41:53,780 –> 00:41:54,260
Randy Black: Yeah.

889
00:41:54,580 –> 00:41:59,940
Coach Jim Clayton: How are you still here when everybody else had had that happen and they’re all past or gone?

890
00:41:59,820 –> 00:42:01,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Why you?

891
00:42:01,900 –> 00:42:03,820
Coach Jim Clayton: No, don’t think like that.

892
00:42:03,820 –> 00:42:05,500
Coach Jim Clayton: See don’t think they don’t realize.

893
00:42:05,500 –> 00:42:09,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, hey, again, he puts that fire on your buddy.

894
00:42:09,100 –> 00:42:10,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, like you said, gold

895
00:42:12,240 –> 00:42:14,240
Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t build gold.

896
00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:15,280
Coach Jim Clayton: You discover it.

897
00:42:16,320 –> 00:42:17,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Where is it?

898
00:42:17,680 –> 00:42:20,640
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s down where in the ground.

899
00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:21,600
Randy Black: Yep.

900
00:42:21,600 –> 00:42:23,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta go find it.

901
00:42:23,980 –> 00:42:24,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

902
00:42:24,620 –> 00:42:26,140
Randy Black: And then what do you have to do with it?

903
00:42:26,140 –> 00:42:28,060
Randy Black: You gotta hit you gotta refine it.

904
00:42:28,060 –> 00:42:30,220
Randy Black: You’ve got to make it, you’ve gotta improve it.

905
00:42:30,220 –> 00:42:31,500
Randy Black: You’ve gotta build on it.

906
00:42:31,500 –> 00:42:33,420
Randy Black: And it’s the same thing God does to us.

907
00:42:33,420 –> 00:42:36,860
Randy Black: He tests us to refine us to bring us

908
00:42:36,859 –> 00:42:39,579
Randy Black: To a new place, to a new understanding.

909
00:42:39,579 –> 00:42:40,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

910
00:42:40,540 –> 00:42:42,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

911
00:42:42,060 –> 00:42:43,820
Coach Jim Clayton: The gold ain’t coming to you.

912
00:42:43,820 –> 00:42:44,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

913
00:42:45,020 –> 00:42:47,740
Coach Jim Clayton: So if you want it, you gotta go find it.

914
00:42:47,740 –> 00:42:49,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be intentional to go get it.

915
00:42:49,820 –> 00:42:50,619
Randy Black: Yes.

916
00:42:50,619 –> 00:42:51,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

917
00:42:51,339 –> 00:42:53,099
Coach Jim Clayton: So some things in life

918
00:42:53,440 –> 00:42:56,560
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t happen accidentally, the great thing.

919
00:42:57,119 –> 00:42:58,800
Coach Jim Clayton: They happen intentional.

920
00:42:58,800 –> 00:42:59,599
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

921
00:42:59,599 –> 00:43:00,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

922
00:43:00,320 –> 00:43:04,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Like you can intentionally make something happen if you want to.

923
00:43:04,160 –> 00:43:04,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Or

924
00:43:06,600 –> 00:43:08,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don’t know how that happened.

925
00:43:08,840 –> 00:43:10,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Most kinds of things don’t happen like that.

926
00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:13,400
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t fall out of the sky like that.

927
00:43:13,400 –> 00:43:14,040
Randy Black: Yeah

928
00:43:14,320 –> 00:43:16,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, there’s a reason.

929
00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:20,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And that reason might have been something that happened two or three years ago.

930
00:43:20,880 –> 00:43:22,000
Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t know that.

931
00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:25,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you think your brain is thinking about that?

932
00:43:25,420 –> 00:43:27,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Not until somebody points it out to you.

933
00:43:27,260 –> 00:43:27,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

934
00:43:27,820 –> 00:43:33,740
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and again, uh believers, man, believers.

935
00:43:35,880 –> 00:43:45,000
Randy Black: The real idea here is that for believers, for those who believe in God, who who trust that God has a hand in what we’re doing, resilience for them.

936
00:43:45,020 –> 00:43:49,579
Randy Black: has to include trusting the process that God is using to refine them.

937
00:43:50,700 –> 00:43:51,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Process.

938
00:43:51,500 –> 00:43:52,859
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust the process.

939
00:43:52,859 –> 00:43:53,420
Randy Black: Yes.

940
00:43:53,420 –> 00:43:57,820
Coach Jim Clayton: See, because if you know the process and you trust it

941
00:43:58,320 –> 00:44:05,840
Coach Jim Clayton: And you travel on that process road, not deviating off every every turn here and there, you’re going to get there

942
00:44:06,940 –> 00:44:08,780
Coach Jim Clayton: See, all roads lead somewhere.

943
00:44:09,420 –> 00:44:11,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people just have better GPS.

944
00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:12,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, exactly.

945
00:44:12,700 –> 00:44:14,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well, God’s got a GPS for you.

946
00:44:14,780 –> 00:44:16,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes we don’t understand it.

947
00:44:16,780 –> 00:44:19,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s not our job to understand.

948
00:44:19,340 –> 00:44:22,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s definitely not our job to question.

949
00:44:22,460 –> 00:44:27,500
Coach Jim Clayton: So for me personally, I’m sure for you too and a lot of people, is I don’t question

950
00:44:27,920 –> 00:44:29,760
Coach Jim Clayton: God things happen for reasons.

951
00:44:29,760 –> 00:44:30,800
Coach Jim Clayton: I know you know why.

952
00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:31,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You got something.

953
00:44:31,600 –> 00:44:34,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I might not understand it right now, but I know you’re gonna tell me.

954
00:44:34,960 –> 00:44:35,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna listen.

955
00:44:35,760 –> 00:44:39,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m just gonna sit here and you’re gonna talk to me.

956
00:44:39,680 –> 00:44:42,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Silence.

957
00:44:42,839 –> 00:44:44,200
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like my little granddaughter.

958
00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:44,839
Coach Jim Clayton: She comes up day.

959
00:44:44,839 –> 00:44:45,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m laying up there.

960
00:44:45,960 –> 00:44:48,200
Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, Pop up.

961
00:44:48,200 –> 00:44:49,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, it’s quiet.

962
00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:52,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, yes, ma’am, it is.

963
00:44:52,680 –> 00:44:54,440
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what I like.

964
00:44:54,940 –> 00:44:57,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

965
00:44:57,980 –> 00:45:03,340
Randy Black: So the last scripture we’re going to talk about here, Jim, is from the book of Philippians.

966
00:45:03,340 –> 00:45:06,060
Randy Black: Philippians, another one of those books that was written by Paul.

967
00:45:06,060 –> 00:45:11,340
Randy Black: And this is a very, very often quoted scripture out there.

968
00:45:11,340 –> 00:45:13,740
Randy Black: Philippians chapter 4, verse 13.

969
00:45:14,120 –> 00:45:18,040
Randy Black: I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

970
00:45:18,040 –> 00:45:22,920
Randy Black: King James version of that is, I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

971
00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:26,040
Randy Black: So a little bit of a different wording, but it means the same thing.

972
00:45:26,120 –> 00:45:38,280
Randy Black: It is very, very often used and quoted in the context of achievement, but it’s actually speaking to endurance through all circumstances.

973
00:45:38,140 –> 00:45:46,539
Randy Black: Whether in plenty or in want, Paul’s confidence here comes from relying on Christ’s strength

974
00:45:46,620 –> 00:45:49,420
Randy Black: rather than relying on his own.

975
00:45:49,420 –> 00:45:57,100
Randy Black: Resilience therefore includes a spirit of contentment and dependency on God’s power to sustain us

976
00:45:57,520 –> 00:46:02,000
Randy Black: regardless of the external conditions that we face.

977
00:46:02,160 –> 00:46:08,240
Randy Black: Strength to endure through Christ, not just to achieve

978
00:46:09,859 –> 00:46:12,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Bottom line, he knows you can do it.

979
00:46:13,539 –> 00:46:18,819
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s not going to accept less than what he knows you can do.

980
00:46:18,819 –> 00:46:23,700
Coach Jim Clayton: So it’s kind of like, don’t look at somebody the way they are, look at somebody the way they could be.

981
00:46:23,200 –> 00:46:25,680
Coach Jim Clayton: He already knows what you’re going to be.

982
00:46:25,680 –> 00:46:26,320
Randy Black: Yeah.

983
00:46:26,320 –> 00:46:28,880
Coach Jim Clayton: He already, he’s seen the crystal ball, man.

984
00:46:28,880 –> 00:46:29,760
Coach Jim Clayton: He knows.

985
00:46:29,760 –> 00:46:30,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

986
00:46:30,320 –> 00:46:30,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

987
00:46:30,880 –> 00:46:32,720
Coach Jim Clayton: The problem is we don’t know.

988
00:46:32,720 –> 00:46:34,640
Coach Jim Clayton: So why would you not?

989
00:46:35,160 –> 00:46:41,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Want to be side by side with somebody who trusts, believes in you.

990
00:46:41,320 –> 00:46:42,680
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s going to push you.

991
00:46:42,680 –> 00:46:45,800
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s going to keep you to where you man, you’re going to keep that endurance.

992
00:46:45,800 –> 00:46:46,760
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re going to keep going.

993
00:46:46,760 –> 00:46:48,280
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re going to keep going.

994
00:46:48,240 –> 00:46:50,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I quit is not in your vocabulary.

995
00:46:50,400 –> 00:46:50,880
Randy Black: Yes.

996
00:46:50,880 –> 00:46:52,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Give up is not in your vocabulary.

997
00:46:52,960 –> 00:46:55,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Who doesn’t want to be around somebody like that?

998
00:46:55,440 –> 00:46:57,200
Randy Black: It’s those first few words.

999
00:46:57,200 –> 00:46:59,440
Randy Black: I can do all this

1000
00:47:00,299 –> 00:47:01,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Anything.

1001
00:47:01,180 –> 00:47:03,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I can do anything and everything.

1002
00:47:03,660 –> 00:47:04,460
Randy Black: Yes.

1003
00:47:04,460 –> 00:47:07,180
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s nothing to hold you back.

1004
00:47:07,420 –> 00:47:11,420
Randy Black: Another key part of that is that no matter what the circumstance is

1005
00:47:11,980 –> 00:47:16,540
Randy Black: Contentment is key to being resilient in the circumstance.

1006
00:47:16,540 –> 00:47:17,260
Randy Black: No question.

1007
00:47:17,740 –> 00:47:19,660
Randy Black: You can’t be upset.

1008
00:47:19,660 –> 00:47:20,780
Randy Black: You can’t be angry.

1009
00:47:20,780 –> 00:47:21,740
Randy Black: You can’t be

1010
00:47:22,480 –> 00:47:25,520
Randy Black: Having those emotions that let you lose your control.

1011
00:47:25,520 –> 00:47:29,760
Randy Black: You have to have that sense of commit of contentment to be able to handle it.

1012
00:47:29,760 –> 00:47:32,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, you can’t be the first one to the pity party.

1013
00:47:32,480 –> 00:47:33,200
Randy Black: Right.

1014
00:47:33,340 –> 00:47:35,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And a lot of people, man, they stay in that party.

1015
00:47:35,740 –> 00:47:37,100
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t want to leave.

1016
00:47:37,100 –> 00:47:37,900
Randy Black: Yeah.

1017
00:47:37,900 –> 00:47:40,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Because everybody’s telling them exactly what they want to hear.

1018
00:47:40,300 –> 00:47:40,780
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

1019
00:47:40,780 –> 00:47:42,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what they really need to hear.

1020
00:47:43,700 –> 00:47:47,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And excuse me, we’ve all been down that route.

1021
00:47:47,460 –> 00:47:49,380
Randy Black: We have, yes, definitely.

1022
00:47:49,380 –> 00:47:51,220
Coach Jim Clayton: But what happens?

1023
00:47:51,220 –> 00:47:53,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You live and you learn.

1024
00:47:54,700 –> 00:47:59,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And then when it happens again, which it will, guess what?

1025
00:47:59,340 –> 00:48:00,780
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re better prepared.

1026
00:48:00,780 –> 00:48:01,420
Randy Black: Yes

1027
00:48:02,980 –> 00:48:05,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Excuse me, because you’re not by yourself.

1028
00:48:05,380 –> 00:48:05,700
Randy Black: Yeah.

1029
00:48:05,700 –> 00:48:10,580
Randy Black: And it’s it it it plays into the the idea of what is strength.

1030
00:48:10,580 –> 00:48:12,980
Randy Black: And a lot of people think about strength as

1031
00:48:13,820 –> 00:48:16,140
Randy Black: Strength is is is physical.

1032
00:48:16,460 –> 00:48:21,660
Randy Black: It’s the ability to pick up things, to lift things, to do all these great feats.

1033
00:48:21,660 –> 00:48:24,380
Randy Black: Strength is not just physical.

1034
00:48:24,520 –> 00:48:29,400
Randy Black: Strength sometimes is spiritual, sometimes it’s emotional, sometimes it’s mental.

1035
00:48:29,400 –> 00:48:31,480
Randy Black: It’s not just about the physical.

1036
00:48:31,480 –> 00:48:34,920
Randy Black: And with God, this verse is telling us.

1037
00:48:35,260 –> 00:48:39,180
Randy Black: We can build that strength up and we can do anything that is put in front of us.

1038
00:48:39,180 –> 00:48:39,900
Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

1039
00:48:39,900 –> 00:48:42,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And why would somebody not want to do that?

1040
00:48:43,100 –> 00:48:47,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I cannot for the I cannot figure that out.

1041
00:48:47,980 –> 00:48:56,060
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because it kind of makes when you when you know that and he’s right there with you and you know he’s got your back, right?

1042
00:48:56,060 –> 00:48:58,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You walk with a little pip in your stent

1043
00:48:59,880 –> 00:49:03,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I got you back.

1044
00:49:03,400 –> 00:49:04,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I got you.

1045
00:49:04,520 –> 00:49:06,040
Coach Jim Clayton: I got you.

1046
00:49:06,040 –> 00:49:06,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

1047
00:49:06,760 –> 00:49:09,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And when when you finally come to the realization that

1048
00:49:09,700 –> 00:49:10,660
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s trust.

1049
00:49:10,660 –> 00:49:11,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

1050
00:49:11,619 –> 00:49:12,099
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

1051
00:49:12,099 –> 00:49:14,180
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s everything in the world come down to?

1052
00:49:14,180 –> 00:49:14,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Trust.

1053
00:49:14,740 –> 00:49:15,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Can I trust you?

1054
00:49:15,780 –> 00:49:16,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1055
00:49:17,380 –> 00:49:18,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I trust you.

1056
00:49:18,420 –> 00:49:21,700
Coach Jim Clayton: As a coach, I go, I know you know what to do

1057
00:49:22,220 –> 00:49:23,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

1058
00:49:23,339 –> 00:49:25,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I trust you, because you’re gonna go out there and get it done.

1059
00:49:25,900 –> 00:49:26,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go go.

1060
00:49:26,619 –> 00:49:27,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.

1061
00:49:27,740 –> 00:49:28,940
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t question him

1062
00:49:30,480 –> 00:49:32,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not sure if you could do it.

1063
00:49:33,440 –> 00:49:35,280
Coach Jim Clayton: No, I gave him what?

1064
00:49:35,280 –> 00:49:36,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Confidence.

1065
00:49:36,320 –> 00:49:37,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Strength.

1066
00:49:37,760 –> 00:49:38,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Power

1067
00:49:39,880 –> 00:49:42,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, no thinketh, no doeth.

1068
00:49:44,920 –> 00:49:47,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Not physical, mental strength

1069
00:49:47,420 –> 00:49:55,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Your mentally, you might be the strongest mind you might bitch 500 pounds, but your mental strength is that you couldn’t bitch five pounds.

1070
00:49:55,180 –> 00:49:55,820
Randy Black: Yeah

1071
00:49:56,940 –> 00:49:58,380
Coach Jim Clayton: So you want them both.

1072
00:49:58,380 –> 00:49:58,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

1073
00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:00,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you want to be have a little bit of both.

1074
00:50:00,860 –> 00:50:03,020
Randy Black: Not only do you want them both, you need them both.

1075
00:50:03,180 –> 00:50:03,660
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s correct.

1076
00:50:03,740 –> 00:50:04,300
Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

1077
00:50:04,380 –> 00:50:05,020
Coach Jim Clayton: You need to have them.

1078
00:50:06,300 –> 00:50:09,740
Coach Jim Clayton: You need physical strength, you need mental strength.

1079
00:50:10,280 –> 00:50:18,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you have those things and you got the man right beside you, everywhere around you, 360, guess what?

1080
00:50:18,680 –> 00:50:20,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t go wrong.

1081
00:50:20,400 –> 00:50:22,560
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a no lose situation.

1082
00:50:22,560 –> 00:50:23,440
Randy Black: Yeah.

1083
00:50:23,760 –> 00:50:26,640
Coach Jim Clayton: No, it’s like betting on a sure thing.

1084
00:50:26,880 –> 00:50:27,280
Randy Black: Mm-hmm

1085
00:50:27,700 –> 00:50:29,060
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s really what you’re doing.

1086
00:50:29,060 –> 00:50:29,700
Randy Black: Exactly.

1087
00:50:29,700 –> 00:50:32,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re betting on a sure thing.

1088
00:50:32,339 –> 00:50:33,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Who wouldn’t want to take that bet?

1089
00:50:33,780 –> 00:50:34,180
Randy Black: Exactly.

1090
00:50:35,060 –> 00:50:36,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I just can’t understand it.

1091
00:50:36,180 –> 00:50:36,500
Randy Black: Right.

1092
00:50:36,500 –> 00:50:37,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

1093
00:50:37,380 –> 00:50:38,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t understand it.

1094
00:50:38,420 –> 00:50:39,540
Coach Jim Clayton: But I do know

1095
00:50:40,440 –> 00:50:53,160
Coach Jim Clayton: that my personal relationship with God, you know, I’m not a big never been a big church grower, never been a big, I don’t know, a lot of verses like you know them and stuff like that.

1096
00:50:53,160 –> 00:50:54,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I know what they mean.

1097
00:50:54,820 –> 00:50:57,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and I use them in my life every day.

1098
00:50:58,340 –> 00:51:07,060
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, since again, we’ve talked about this, something all of a sudden comes along that I didn’t expect.

1099
00:51:07,060 –> 00:51:09,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1100
00:51:08,839 –> 00:51:17,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But that has opened doors of faith, strength, uh

1101
00:51:17,920 –> 00:51:26,000
Coach Jim Clayton: All the things we talked about, perseverance, resist, resilience, bouncing back, not giving up, you know, toughness

1102
00:51:26,700 –> 00:51:30,540
Coach Jim Clayton: That I don’t, you know, I don’t think I’d have had all that.

1103
00:51:30,540 –> 00:51:31,500
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

1104
00:51:32,060 –> 00:51:38,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And I just feel so I I mean I feel so much better than myself.

1105
00:51:40,080 –> 00:51:41,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Even though, I mean I feel good.

1106
00:51:41,920 –> 00:51:45,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I told Lady Dad, I said, you know, she said, how you feel?

1107
00:51:45,520 –> 00:51:47,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I feel good.

1108
00:51:47,280 –> 00:51:48,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Little James Brown, I feel good.

1109
00:51:48,960 –> 00:51:50,080
Coach Jim Clayton: No, no, no, no, no.

1110
00:51:50,320 –> 00:51:50,960
Coach Jim Clayton: You know

1111
00:51:51,400 –> 00:51:54,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I I you know, and am I supposed to feel bad?

1112
00:51:54,920 –> 00:51:56,600
Coach Jim Clayton: She said, no, not really.

1113
00:51:56,600 –> 00:51:56,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1114
00:51:56,920 –> 00:51:58,840
Coach Jim Clayton: She says, I know a lot of people do.

1115
00:51:58,840 –> 00:52:02,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, maybe that’s because they let themselves feel that way.

1116
00:52:02,280 –> 00:52:04,360
Randy Black: Oh, yes, definitely.

1117
00:52:04,520 –> 00:52:07,720
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, like they always say, man, you can make yourself sick.

1118
00:52:08,520 –> 00:52:10,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people can make themselves sick.

1119
00:52:10,920 –> 00:52:12,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I I’ve never bought into that.

1120
00:52:12,760 –> 00:52:13,640
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

1121
00:52:13,640 –> 00:52:14,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I I don’t

1122
00:52:14,359 –> 00:52:15,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t really like to be sick.

1123
00:52:15,480 –> 00:52:16,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t think anybody likes to be sick.

1124
00:52:16,920 –> 00:52:18,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Why would I want to make myself sick?

1125
00:52:18,520 –> 00:52:21,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, why to get out of something that I know I should have done?

1126
00:52:21,400 –> 00:52:21,800
Randy Black: Yeah.

1127
00:52:22,280 –> 00:52:29,160
Randy Black: A lot of people don’t have the strength they need to make it past that.

1128
00:52:29,080 –> 00:52:31,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And that that’s why we’re here.

1129
00:52:31,000 –> 00:52:31,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1130
00:52:31,720 –> 00:52:41,640
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re going to be a vehicle to help deliver that strength to some some people that really need it and want it, they just don’t know how to get it.

1131
00:52:42,980 –> 00:52:50,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And the circumstances they’re in, whether it be their home, you know what I mean, that kind of stuff, the people they’re around, they don’t know how to get it either.

1132
00:52:52,040 –> 00:53:00,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m not getting on anybody, but you you know it when you see it and you know it when you hear it.

1133
00:53:00,280 –> 00:53:00,920
Randy Black: Exactly.

1134
00:53:00,920 –> 00:53:02,280
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s like going to this

1135
00:53:02,440 –> 00:53:10,599
Coach Jim Clayton: To go out to dinner and you order something off the menu and you like it, there’s a real good chance when you go back to that restaurant.

1136
00:53:10,599 –> 00:53:11,480
Randy Black: You might order it again.

1137
00:53:11,480 –> 00:53:12,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re going to order it again.

1138
00:53:12,920 –> 00:53:13,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And vice versa.

1139
00:53:13,880 –> 00:53:16,440
Coach Jim Clayton: If you hate it, you ain’t ordered it again.

1140
00:53:16,420 –> 00:53:26,500
Coach Jim Clayton: So we’re going to give some people a menu of some things that they can order that’s going to make them feel really good.

1141
00:53:26,500 –> 00:53:27,300
Randy Black: Awesome.

1142
00:53:27,300 –> 00:53:29,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s really what it’s all about.

1143
00:53:29,799 –> 00:53:32,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I know it is for you, I know it is for me.

1144
00:53:32,760 –> 00:53:40,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know again, it’s again we talk about in introduction, about life’s lessons on the court.

1145
00:53:41,319 –> 00:53:42,599
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s the same thing.

1146
00:53:42,599 –> 00:53:44,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1147
00:53:44,160 –> 00:53:45,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You know stop.

1148
00:53:45,200 –> 00:53:52,160
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, coach, why did you, when my coach, I went to see him the day before he died, I said, why didn’t you take take me out

1149
00:53:52,620 –> 00:53:58,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You told me you were going to after I’ve been in the cast for eight weeks and now you’re trying to make me run up down the court.

1150
00:53:58,940 –> 00:54:00,220
Coach Jim Clayton: He said, because you’re tough.

1151
00:54:02,580 –> 00:54:02,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1152
00:54:02,900 –> 00:54:08,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I won’t tell you what he he had a couple other things to it, but I said You might you might have said them on the last episode.

1153
00:54:08,740 –> 00:54:11,620
Coach Jim Clayton: I might have said I’ll never forget that conversation.

1154
00:54:11,620 –> 00:54:12,420
Randy Black: Yeah.

1155
00:54:12,520 –> 00:54:13,800
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s powerful.

1156
00:54:13,800 –> 00:54:15,720
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because it’s come from him.

1157
00:54:15,720 –> 00:54:20,440
Coach Jim Clayton: And he ain’t well he wasn’t one guy who passed out a lot of compliments unless he meant him.

1158
00:54:20,680 –> 00:54:21,480
Randy Black: Right.

1159
00:54:21,440 –> 00:54:23,280
Coach Jim Clayton: He didn’t sugarcoat nothing.

1160
00:54:23,280 –> 00:54:23,839
Randy Black: Right.

1161
00:54:23,839 –> 00:54:27,599
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’ll tell you you did a great job, even though you sucked.

1162
00:54:27,599 –> 00:54:28,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Not that guy.

1163
00:54:28,880 –> 00:54:29,119
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1164
00:54:29,280 –> 00:54:29,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

1165
00:54:29,760 –> 00:54:31,680
Coach Jim Clayton: But I I didn’t want him to tell me that.

1166
00:54:31,680 –> 00:54:32,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1167
00:54:32,480 –> 00:54:34,079
Coach Jim Clayton: I knew it was a lie if he did

1168
00:54:34,359 –> 00:54:39,800
Coach Jim Clayton: I know when I’m not performing at my best and my job is how am I going to fix it?

1169
00:54:39,800 –> 00:54:41,079
Coach Jim Clayton: Preparation.

1170
00:54:41,079 –> 00:54:41,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1171
00:54:41,960 –> 00:54:43,800
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what it’s all about.

1172
00:54:43,800 –> 00:54:44,839
Coach Jim Clayton: Be happy.

1173
00:54:44,839 –> 00:54:47,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Learn to be happy.

1174
00:54:48,480 –> 00:54:58,640
Randy Black: So we’ve covered a lot today about resilience, about what really stands out is that it’s more than just gritting your teeth and pushing through.

1175
00:54:58,640 –> 00:55:01,680
Randy Black: It’s deeply rooted in faith.

1176
00:55:01,640 –> 00:55:06,359
Randy Black: in perseverance, and a trust in God that carries us through every trial.

1177
00:55:06,359 –> 00:55:10,839
Randy Black: From the scriptures we discussed, resilience isn’t about never failing.

1178
00:55:10,740 –> 00:55:12,900
Randy Black: It’s about always getting back up.

1179
00:55:12,900 –> 00:55:18,020
Randy Black: It’s about finding renewed strength when we place our hope in the Lord

1180
00:55:18,520 –> 00:55:22,359
Randy Black: This ties back, again, to what we talked about in earlier episodes.

1181
00:55:22,359 –> 00:55:25,640
Randy Black: Jim’s four pillars of resistance or resilience.

1182
00:55:25,640 –> 00:55:26,280
Randy Black: Uh Dr.

1183
00:55:26,280 –> 00:55:32,280
Randy Black: Brad Miller’s Axe Plan, where faith isn’t just part of resilience, it’s the foundation.

1184
00:55:31,940 –> 00:55:43,859
Randy Black: Resilience is a journey, and God’s word gives us both the tools and the encouragement to keep moving forward, even when the weight of life feels heavy.

1185
00:55:43,600 –> 00:55:56,320
Randy Black: So whether you’re facing setbacks, refining moments, or ongoing struggles, remember that resilience is about leaning into God’s strength and hope, not just relying on your own.

1186
00:55:56,260 –> 00:56:03,300
Randy Black: It’s a process, and each step shapes a stronger, more mature faith

1187
00:56:04,320 –> 00:56:11,920
Randy Black: But now it’s time that we go to our own coach Clayton to share his wisdom of the week.

1188
00:56:13,040 –> 00:56:16,400
Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it’s time for Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.

1189
00:56:16,400 –> 00:56:18,640
Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous

1190
00:56:19,240 –> 00:56:22,840
Randy Black: Genialisms to inspire the listener.

1191
00:56:22,840 –> 00:56:27,640
Randy Black: Okay, so today’s Wisdom of the Week quote that you gave me

1192
00:56:27,640 –> 00:56:30,760
Randy Black: Is that happiness is not about getting.

1193
00:56:30,760 –> 00:56:31,960
Randy Black: Oh, let me start again.

1194
00:56:31,960 –> 00:56:35,960
Randy Black: Happiness is not about getting about all that you want.

1195
00:56:35,960 –> 00:56:40,039
Randy Black: It’s about enjoying all that you have.

1196
00:56:40,340 –> 00:56:41,540
Randy Black: What’s that mean?

1197
00:56:41,540 –> 00:56:45,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it’s based on what we’ve talked about today.

1198
00:56:45,140 –> 00:56:45,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1199
00:56:45,860 –> 00:56:47,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, through all these things.

1200
00:56:49,140 –> 00:56:53,220
Coach Jim Clayton: There could be happy on the under end.

1201
00:56:53,220 –> 00:56:56,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you really think about it, we’re all blessed.

1202
00:56:56,420 –> 00:56:58,660
Coach Jim Clayton: We’ve got more blessings than we got problems.

1203
00:56:59,220 –> 00:57:00,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody does.

1204
00:57:00,440 –> 00:57:04,280
Coach Jim Clayton: But we get stuck on that problem, not the blessings.

1205
00:57:04,280 –> 00:57:05,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

1206
00:57:05,400 –> 00:57:08,359
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you really think about what you have

1207
00:57:08,820 –> 00:57:15,300
Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re not happy with what you have, what makes you think you’re going to be happy with more?

1208
00:57:15,300 –> 00:57:16,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1209
00:57:16,420 –> 00:57:18,740
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s really what it comes down to, right there.

1210
00:57:19,140 –> 00:57:20,820
Coach Jim Clayton: So learn to be happy

1211
00:57:21,400 –> 00:57:26,360
Coach Jim Clayton: So the people that some of the happiest people don’t have much, but they’re happy with what they got.

1212
00:57:26,440 –> 00:57:28,520
Coach Jim Clayton: They know how to express that happiness.

1213
00:57:28,520 –> 00:57:29,080
Randy Black: Yes.

1214
00:57:29,080 –> 00:57:30,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of what?

1215
00:57:30,120 –> 00:57:33,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh gosh, I need a bigger this, I need this, I need that.

1216
00:57:33,080 –> 00:57:34,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t take it with you.

1217
00:57:35,520 –> 00:57:39,440
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s just that’s just my mom called it stuff.

1218
00:57:39,440 –> 00:57:40,000
Randy Black: Yeah.

1219
00:57:40,000 –> 00:57:43,359
Coach Jim Clayton: She said there’s a lot of stuff in this world

1220
00:57:43,420 –> 00:57:45,100
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s good stuff.

1221
00:57:45,260 –> 00:57:47,020
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s bad stuff.

1222
00:57:47,020 –> 00:57:48,700
Coach Jim Clayton: We get rid of stuff.

1223
00:57:48,700 –> 00:57:49,580
Coach Jim Clayton: We look around.

1224
00:57:49,580 –> 00:57:50,780
Coach Jim Clayton: We got more stuff.

1225
00:57:51,260 –> 00:57:53,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Stuff, stuff, stuff.

1226
00:57:53,340 –> 00:57:53,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1227
00:57:53,740 –> 00:57:55,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking like, hmm.

1228
00:57:56,280 –> 00:58:01,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But what do you have that you wouldn’t take anything for?

1229
00:58:04,200 –> 00:58:06,840
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s something that everybody has to answer.

1230
00:58:07,720 –> 00:58:10,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Wouldn’t take it you couldn’t not enough money it would buy.

1231
00:58:10,680 –> 00:58:11,240
Randy Black: Right.

1232
00:58:11,240 –> 00:58:12,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You see what I mean?

1233
00:58:12,279 –> 00:58:13,319
Coach Jim Clayton: I look at that.

1234
00:58:13,319 –> 00:58:14,839
Coach Jim Clayton: And you look back at stuff.

1235
00:58:14,839 –> 00:58:16,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I found this the other day

1236
00:58:16,920 –> 00:58:19,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking through some stuff.

1237
00:58:19,800 –> 00:58:20,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Stuff.

1238
00:58:20,760 –> 00:58:21,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Just stuff.

1239
00:58:21,880 –> 00:58:24,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, from years past.

1240
00:58:24,200 –> 00:58:26,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And I found this little penny.

1241
00:58:27,460 –> 00:58:38,339
Coach Jim Clayton: And it had it was with a blue and right ribbon and the coach drilled a hole through the penny and the blue and right ribbon went through and we pinned it on our warmups.

1242
00:58:38,900 –> 00:58:40,420
Coach Jim Clayton: That was a luck.

1243
00:58:40,420 –> 00:58:45,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I haven’t seen that since 1969-70.

1244
00:58:45,700 –> 00:58:49,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And I found and I held that sucker up.

1245
00:58:50,260 –> 00:58:51,620
Coach Jim Clayton: I wouldn’t you couldn’t.

1246
00:58:51,620 –> 00:58:52,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh uh-uh.

1247
00:58:52,920 –> 00:58:54,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Huh.

1248
00:58:54,040 –> 00:58:55,080
Coach Jim Clayton: What that meant?

1249
00:58:55,080 –> 00:58:56,680
Coach Jim Clayton: What that means?

1250
00:58:56,680 –> 00:58:59,640
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know if that’s the only one in existence today.

1251
00:58:59,640 –> 00:59:00,360
Randy Black: Yeah.

1252
00:59:00,360 –> 00:59:01,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Probably is.

1253
00:59:01,400 –> 00:59:02,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Might be.

1254
00:59:02,960 –> 00:59:07,200
Coach Jim Clayton: But in that moment, okay, that’s what we got.

1255
00:59:07,920 –> 00:59:11,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Now to get to that moment, everything we talked about today.

1256
00:59:11,760 –> 00:59:16,799
Coach Jim Clayton: Ups, downs, over, unders, through, good times, bad times, hard times, tough times.

1257
00:59:16,840 –> 00:59:19,960
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, great times, but guess what?

1258
00:59:19,960 –> 00:59:21,400
Coach Jim Clayton: We kept on what?

1259
00:59:21,400 –> 00:59:22,280
Randy Black: Moving forward.

1260
00:59:23,400 –> 00:59:25,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m happy with it.

1261
00:59:25,400 –> 00:59:28,040
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m happy with the simplest things in life.

1262
00:59:29,039 –> 00:59:30,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Not the most complex things.

1263
00:59:32,000 –> 00:59:33,440
Coach Jim Clayton: My dog.

1264
00:59:33,440 –> 00:59:34,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1265
00:59:34,480 –> 00:59:38,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that’s my and uh oh yeah, if it weren’t for that one

1266
00:59:38,820 –> 00:59:39,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

1267
00:59:39,620 –> 00:59:41,460
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s right there with me 24-7.

1268
00:59:41,460 –> 00:59:41,940
Randy Black: Yeah.

1269
00:59:41,940 –> 00:59:43,380
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s in the gym with me.

1270
00:59:43,380 –> 00:59:44,820
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s in the car with me.

1271
00:59:44,820 –> 00:59:47,460
Coach Jim Clayton: When I get home, he’s laying right next to me.

1272
00:59:47,160 –> 00:59:51,160
Coach Jim Clayton: When it finally when he makes it upstairs, I wake up in the morning, guess where he is?

1273
00:59:51,160 –> 00:59:51,960
Randy Black: Right there, wait nine.

1274
00:59:52,200 –> 00:59:52,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Right there there.

1275
00:59:52,920 –> 00:59:55,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

1276
00:59:55,240 –> 00:59:59,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I mean I look at that and I just say, man, learn to be happy.

1277
01:00:00,200 –> 01:00:13,800
Randy Black: Yeah, and it it it you know, I was a I was a history teacher, and you know, we look back at history and like we found these these tombs that were built for like the pharaohs in Egypt and all these riches and all these things that they put in these tombs that

1278
01:00:13,840 –> 01:00:16,560
Randy Black: They thought they were going to take with them.

1279
01:00:16,560 –> 01:00:17,840
Randy Black: And it’s still there.

1280
01:00:17,840 –> 01:00:18,960
Randy Black: It’s still there.

1281
01:00:18,960 –> 01:00:23,280
Randy Black: You can you could be happy with uh having everything in the world

1282
01:00:23,740 –> 01:00:26,780
Randy Black: Or you can be happy with just being in the world.

1283
01:00:26,780 –> 01:00:28,220
Randy Black: That’s how I look at it.

1284
01:00:28,220 –> 01:00:28,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

1285
01:00:28,700 –> 01:00:31,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I always look at this.

1286
01:00:31,740 –> 01:00:34,460
Coach Jim Clayton: When you if you’ve led a lot

1287
01:00:35,120 –> 01:00:36,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Of significance.

1288
01:00:36,640 –> 01:00:37,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Not success.

1289
01:00:37,840 –> 01:00:38,320
Randy Black: Uh-huh.

1290
01:00:38,640 –> 01:00:40,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Significance.

1291
01:00:40,160 –> 01:00:42,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s how you know.

1292
01:00:42,640 –> 01:00:44,560
Coach Jim Clayton: They always miss you.

1293
01:00:44,560 –> 01:00:45,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1294
01:00:45,120 –> 01:00:48,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Even though you’re not still talking.

1295
01:00:48,020 –> 01:00:48,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

1296
01:00:48,420 –> 01:00:49,859
Coach Jim Clayton: You never leave the conversation.

1297
01:00:49,859 –> 01:00:51,540
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like you’re still there.

1298
01:00:51,540 –> 01:00:54,099
Coach Jim Clayton: They can’t get it out of their mind.

1299
01:00:54,099 –> 01:00:54,740
Randy Black: Right.

1300
01:00:54,980 –> 01:00:57,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that’s you know significance.

1301
01:00:57,920 –> 01:00:59,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody doesn’t look at that.

1302
01:00:59,520 –> 01:00:59,840
Randy Black: Yeah.

1303
01:00:59,840 –> 01:01:03,680
Randy Black: I had a uh I reached out to a gentleman not that long ago.

1304
01:01:03,680 –> 01:01:10,560
Randy Black: Uh he used to have a recording studio out in Lavalette, and he recorded a lot of local gospel groups.

1305
01:01:10,560 –> 01:01:10,880
Randy Black: Um

1306
01:01:11,540 –> 01:01:22,180
Randy Black: And my grandfather, who was a gospel, Southern Gospel quartet singer for decades, um, I know that they had, you know, the last stuff they recorded, they had recorded there

1307
01:01:22,260 –> 01:01:26,420
Randy Black: And I reached out to him to say, hey, is there a chance you might still have some of this old stuff?

1308
01:01:26,420 –> 01:01:28,500
Randy Black: And he didn’t, which was kind of sad.

1309
01:01:28,500 –> 01:01:31,140
Randy Black: Uh, but we started talking about my grandpa.

1310
01:01:31,760 –> 01:01:39,680
Randy Black: And the memories that he had of my grandfather and the man he was touched me tremendously.

1311
01:01:39,680 –> 01:01:43,119
Randy Black: Because it it it helped me to continue to remember

1312
01:01:43,720 –> 01:01:46,520
Randy Black: what his life was and what he did in his life.

1313
01:01:46,839 –> 01:01:48,039
Randy Black: So it’s the same idea.

1314
01:01:48,039 –> 01:01:52,599
Randy Black: You know, it’s what are you going to leave behind that people remember?

1315
01:01:52,559 –> 01:01:55,359
Randy Black: And usually it ain’t the stuff you had.

1316
01:01:55,359 –> 01:01:58,079
Randy Black: It’s what you did in your life.

1317
01:01:58,079 –> 01:01:58,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

1318
01:01:58,799 –> 01:01:59,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

1319
01:01:59,839 –> 01:02:01,039
Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

1320
01:02:01,039 –> 01:02:04,640
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what some people call junk, other people call treasure.

1321
01:02:04,640 –> 01:02:05,599
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1322
01:02:05,620 –> 01:02:10,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because those things, those memories right there, they formed you.

1323
01:02:10,180 –> 01:02:10,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

1324
01:02:10,820 –> 01:02:16,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Through these trials, through these ups and downs, where you know you’re being tested.

1325
01:02:17,460 –> 01:02:19,220
Coach Jim Clayton: How bad do you really want that?

1326
01:02:19,220 –> 01:02:20,099
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1327
01:02:20,099 –> 01:02:23,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I ask myself every day every day, how bad do you really want it?

1328
01:02:23,940 –> 01:02:26,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, only I can answer that question.

1329
01:02:27,320 –> 01:02:30,280
Coach Jim Clayton: If you ask yourself that question, only you can answer that question.

1330
01:02:30,280 –> 01:02:30,920
Randy Black: Yeah.

1331
01:02:30,920 –> 01:02:33,320
Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta learn, you know, be happy.

1332
01:02:33,320 –> 01:02:36,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Learn to be happy in what you have, not what you don’t have.

1333
01:02:36,440 –> 01:02:37,080
Randy Black: Right

1334
01:02:37,520 –> 01:02:39,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you don’t know.

1335
01:02:39,040 –> 01:02:41,119
Coach Jim Clayton: And bigger’s not always better.

1336
01:02:42,079 –> 01:02:48,480
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and uh, you know, I mean, I I just look at that and I just go, man, why can’t people just learn

1337
01:02:48,820 –> 01:02:53,700
Coach Jim Clayton: to be happy instead of always thinking they gotta have more.

1338
01:02:54,500 –> 01:02:55,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1339
01:02:55,140 –> 01:02:56,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Status quo.

1340
01:02:56,340 –> 01:02:56,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1341
01:02:56,740 –> 01:02:58,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Be like the Joneses

1342
01:02:58,160 –> 01:02:59,920
Coach Jim Clayton: How about Erson Jones?

1343
01:03:00,560 –> 01:03:01,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll be like me.

1344
01:03:01,520 –> 01:03:04,000
Coach Jim Clayton: If you don’t like it, that’s your business.

1345
01:03:08,040 –> 01:03:10,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Now go and worry about cause I’m not trying to please everybody.

1346
01:03:10,600 –> 01:03:10,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

1347
01:03:10,920 –> 01:03:11,800
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t please everybody.

1348
01:03:11,960 –> 01:03:12,600
Randy Black: Exactly.

1349
01:03:12,600 –> 01:03:15,000
Coach Jim Clayton: So you know learn learn those happiness.

1350
01:03:15,240 –> 01:03:16,600
Coach Jim Clayton: ‘Cause it’s on it’s

1351
01:03:16,720 –> 01:03:22,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Happiness is always going to be on the other side of these trials and tribulations if you stick with it.

1352
01:03:22,000 –> 01:03:22,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1353
01:03:22,640 –> 01:03:24,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what we’re talking about.

1354
01:03:24,079 –> 01:03:25,039
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1355
01:03:24,859 –> 01:03:25,740
Coach Jim Clayton: The glue.

1356
01:03:25,740 –> 01:03:26,619
Coach Jim Clayton: The glue, man.

1357
01:03:26,619 –> 01:03:27,260
Coach Jim Clayton: The glue.

1358
01:03:29,020 –> 01:03:29,900
Randy Black: Thank you, Jim.

1359
01:03:29,900 –> 01:03:35,099
Randy Black: Your your the wisdom when we do this segment every week always opens up a really good discussion.

1360
01:03:34,859 –> 01:03:36,460
Randy Black: that I love having with you.

1361
01:03:36,460 –> 01:03:43,339
Randy Black: You know, this I told somebody the other day when they asked me about doing the doing a show doing another show, because this I do several shows.

1362
01:03:43,240 –> 01:03:54,440
Randy Black: Um, and I said the most fun I’ve had in the decade I’ve been in podcasting has been sitting across the table from Jim Clayton because the conversations are so good.

1363
01:03:56,220 –> 01:03:56,700
Randy Black: It’s not.

1364
01:03:56,700 –> 01:03:59,260
Randy Black: This is this is our genuine discussion.

1365
01:03:59,260 –> 01:04:01,579
Randy Black: Like, yeah, I’ve got tons of stuff written out.

1366
01:04:01,579 –> 01:04:02,779
Randy Black: I’ve got notes on everything.

1367
01:04:02,779 –> 01:04:04,619
Randy Black: You make notes on stuff and share them with me.

1368
01:04:04,619 –> 01:04:06,539
Randy Black: And we look through them and everything, but

1369
01:04:06,559 –> 01:04:15,680
Randy Black: It’s genuinely a real conversation taking place, and it is so meaningful to me because you, you know, you are my friend.

1370
01:04:15,460 –> 01:04:18,580
Randy Black: You have been my friend for for a long time now.

1371
01:04:18,580 –> 01:04:23,540
Randy Black: And this is allowing us to keep building up that friendship further.

1372
01:04:23,540 –> 01:04:25,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, absolutely, 100%.

1373
01:04:25,460 –> 01:04:28,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, one’s a lonely number.

1374
01:04:28,020 –> 01:04:29,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1375
01:04:28,920 –> 01:04:31,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you gotta share it with people.

1376
01:04:31,960 –> 01:04:32,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

1377
01:04:32,600 –> 01:04:34,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And you you you can’t take it with you.

1378
01:04:34,520 –> 01:04:35,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1379
01:04:35,240 –> 01:04:36,680
Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta get it out there.

1380
01:04:36,680 –> 01:04:37,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1381
01:04:37,800 –> 01:04:41,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, like I said, 20 years from now, that’ll still be somewhere.

1382
01:04:41,880 –> 01:04:43,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1383
01:04:43,280 –> 01:04:45,840
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so that’s how I look at it.

1384
01:04:45,840 –> 01:04:51,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And like I said, it’s for me, it’s just stuff like things we talked about today are just things that happened in my life today.

1385
01:04:51,760 –> 01:04:52,720
Randy Black: Yeah.

1386
01:04:53,260 –> 01:04:57,980
Coach Jim Clayton: No, you know, you go in for that you go in for those biopsies, you don’t know what’s gonna be.

1387
01:04:57,980 –> 01:05:00,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And the nurse calls you and says, everything’s good.

1388
01:05:00,780 –> 01:05:04,380
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t need to do certain I’m saying, thank you, Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you.

1389
01:05:05,220 –> 01:05:07,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, about how to check it.

1390
01:05:08,740 –> 01:05:15,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, you can be thinking, oh I know this is gonna be bad, I know this is gonna be bad, but that wasn’t my that wasn’t my fault

1391
01:05:16,940 –> 01:05:21,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever it was, I knew he had my back.

1392
01:05:21,420 –> 01:05:22,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

1393
01:05:22,140 –> 01:05:23,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And so guess what?

1394
01:05:23,420 –> 01:05:24,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m at peace with him.

1395
01:05:24,540 –> 01:05:25,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I was at peace.

1396
01:05:25,340 –> 01:05:27,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was so calm.

1397
01:05:26,800 –> 01:05:27,520
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s he calling me?

1398
01:05:27,520 –> 01:05:28,400
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

1399
01:05:28,400 –> 01:05:29,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Like, oh yeah.

1400
01:05:29,840 –> 01:05:30,400
Randy Black: All right.

1401
01:05:30,400 –> 01:05:32,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I say, yeah, baby.

1402
01:05:32,960 –> 01:05:34,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Now we’re cooking.

1403
01:05:34,080 –> 01:05:34,560
Randy Black: Oh yeah.

1404
01:05:34,560 –> 01:05:36,960
Randy Black: So let’s let’s wrap this one up.

1405
01:05:36,460 –> 01:05:40,380
Randy Black: So just a preview, our next episode, we’re going to shift our gears a little bit.

1406
01:05:40,380 –> 01:05:45,260
Randy Black: We’re going to move away from talking about resilience that we’ve been on now for eight episodes.

1407
01:05:44,800 –> 01:05:48,240
Randy Black: And we’re going to move toward the idea of productivity.

1408
01:05:48,240 –> 01:05:53,760
Randy Black: Um, we’re gonna look at the idea what it really means to be productive versus

1409
01:05:54,059 –> 01:05:57,740
Randy Black: Just being busy, just being active, because there is a clear difference.

1410
01:05:57,740 –> 01:05:59,099
Randy Black: And this is a topic Jim said.

1411
01:05:59,099 –> 01:06:00,220
Randy Black: I want to talk about this next.

1412
01:06:00,220 –> 01:06:01,339
Randy Black: I want to go into this one.

1413
01:06:01,339 –> 01:06:02,619
Randy Black: And I said, awesome.

1414
01:06:02,619 –> 01:06:03,660
Randy Black: We’re on it.

1415
01:06:03,660 –> 01:06:03,980
Randy Black: So

1416
01:06:04,420 –> 01:06:18,820
Randy Black: It’s it’s a conversation that in a way, I think, is going to challenge how we think about things and how we look at the efforts we’re putting in daily and what our priorities really are, on whether we’re just being active.

1417
01:06:18,559 –> 01:06:20,160
Randy Black: Or we’re being productive.

1418
01:06:20,160 –> 01:06:21,920
Randy Black: So join us for that one.

1419
01:06:22,240 –> 01:06:25,680
Randy Black: It’s going to be awesome to follow up with what we talked about today.

1420
01:06:25,680 –> 01:06:28,480
Randy Black: Just keep leaning into the faith.

1421
01:06:28,340 –> 01:06:32,500
Randy Black: Keep pushing through and remember that you don’t have to do this alone.

1422
01:06:32,500 –> 01:06:38,100
Randy Black: Part of having that strength, as we talked about in the last episode, was being able to reach out and say,

1423
01:06:38,359 –> 01:06:39,400
Randy Black: I need help.

1424
01:06:39,400 –> 01:06:40,599
Randy Black: I need support.

1425
01:06:40,599 –> 01:06:46,440
Randy Black: So remember also that we are recording these live each week on Thursdays, approximately 8.

1426
01:06:46,440 –> 01:06:47,000
Randy Black: 30 p.

1427
01:06:47,000 –> 01:06:47,160
Randy Black: m.

1428
01:06:47,320 –> 01:06:48,520
Randy Black: Eastern Time.

1429
01:06:48,200 –> 01:06:49,160
Randy Black: So join us.

1430
01:06:49,160 –> 01:06:51,560
Randy Black: Uh you can head over to shooting itstraightpodcast.

1431
01:06:51,560 –> 01:06:59,400
Randy Black: com slash live dash stream, or you can follow us, uh follow the show in a modern podcast app, and you’ll get an alert.

1432
01:06:59,260 –> 01:07:00,380
Randy Black: When we go live.

1433
01:07:00,380 –> 01:07:03,740
Randy Black: We also have our shooting it straight community over on Discord.

1434
01:07:03,740 –> 01:07:10,540
Randy Black: We’ve created a space there for listeners to connect, to ask questions, to share insights, and to keep the conversation going beyond.

1435
01:07:10,660 –> 01:07:13,460
Randy Black: Just what Jim and I talk about here on the podcast.

1436
01:07:13,460 –> 01:07:17,140
Randy Black: And you can join us by heading over to shootingitstraight podcast.

1437
01:07:17,140 –> 01:07:19,460
Randy Black: com slash Discord.

1438
01:07:19,260 –> 01:07:21,580
Randy Black: Until next time, I’m Randy Black.

1439
01:07:21,580 –> 01:07:23,180
Randy Black: And I’m Coach Jim Clayton.

1440
01:07:23,180 –> 01:07:29,980
Coach Jim Clayton: We want you to keep showing up, keep standing tall, and as always, keep shooting it straight.

1441
01:07:31,120 –> 01:07:38,960
Randy Black: If you’ve enjoyed today’s episode, make sure to subscribe, share it with someone who needs a boost, and follow us online at shootingitstraightpodcast.

1442
01:07:38,960 –> 01:07:39,360
Randy Black: com.

1443
01:07:39,360 –> 01:07:42,480
Randy Black: That’s where you’ll find every episode, updates, and more.

1444
01:07:42,480 –> 01:07:44,880
Coach Jim Clayton: The gym and life got one thing in common.

1445
01:07:45,000 –> 01:07:48,520
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s what you do when no one’s watching that makes the difference.

1446
01:07:48,520 –> 01:07:52,440
Coach Jim Clayton: So put in the rip and remember, keep shooting it straight.

1447
01:07:52,440 –> 01:07:53,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son