Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncopp because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
What would it look like if we could see the
walls that we create, the mental mountains that we design
to keep us sheltered and or away from things that
we don't want to do. What would they look like?
Would they be tall and beautiful? Would we paint on
the wall or would it be filled with graffiti? All
those little moments where we just want a doodle on something,
so we put it on the wall that keeps us
from doing something and or protecting us from something, we
build them every day. It's almost like we are the
carpenters or the construction workers that are ordered to do
this and this. Yes, sir, yes, ma'am. Let me put
my hard hat on. I'm going to work. I'm gonna
keep me from being me. I'm building a wall. Hey, Sarah,
this is the daily mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am a daily writer. I'm trying to
make my way through that wall, through that mountain, to
get to the other side, to face even more mountains.
And walls, and I happen to ask this morning, what
is this all about? What are we keeping ourselves from
and why are we doing it? Why do others look
to have more success, and yet what they're doing is
something we can do. But we have walls and mountains
that stand before us. This is the daily mess, lifting
ourselves beyond the weight of what's holding us back. Just
shake your head, man, I know you can relate, lifting
ourselves beyond the weight of what's holding us back. We
are the creators of those walls and mountains. I'm gonn
get a little Jesus on you here, Okay, just for
a moment, Just a moment, Hebrews twelve, verse one. Wherefore seen,
we are also compassed about with so great a cloud
of witness. Let us lay aside every weight and the
sin that besets us, and let us run with patients
the race that is set before us. Okay, I'm a poet.
I know what it's like to live a life of poetry.
I learned early on that most of what I speak
is lost in the rhythm and the rhyme, and basically
people don't know what you're saying. So Hebrews twelve to
one what it's trying to say is is that we
were not designed to carry this much weight. It's encouraging
us to set it aside. We truly are masters at
making walls and mountains because we want excuses, not accomplishment.
Because to gain access to an accomplishment that's going to
require some work, and it's going to require some time.
So let's build that wall in that mountain and sit
over here, and let's do some binge watching. We need patience,
We need to take what we see inside our mind, body,
and soul. I want to build that castle, yet we
choose to sit in the sand. But I want that castle,
the walls, the mountains, our expectations of others. We want
somebody else to build that castle, and then we'll contemplate
on moving in. I'll get there when I can. And well,
you know, you know, my bird isn't feeling well. Nah,
I think I'm gonna stay here. I know I belong
over there. Not well, I'm okay, God, why are they
making it and I'm not It's not fair. I've got
the same gift, the same talent. I can buy my
way into this castle. Why Why did they Why? Why?
Walls and mountains We were not designed to hold on
to the weight of the excuse. Set it aside. I'm arrow,
and that's the daily mess