Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Is there anything more refreshing than the next morning after
a big thunderstorm you walk outside and it feels like
everything's been ionized, and you're going, oh my god, it
smells so good out here. You look into the forest,
so you see the deer, you see the squirrels, and
you just feel like that you're part of something so universal.
But you're only this much of the story. Everything else
around you is so much larger and more important. But
just to be this much of the story allows you
to breathe in and just feel like, wow, we belong together.
It's like jazz. It really isn't supposed to work, but
it does. How Hey Sarow, This is the Daily Mess,
a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a
daily writer. I am a silent wolf, the wolf that
sits underneath the brush and watches life, documents things that
are moving, and finds peace in all things that aren't moving.
To motivate, to inspire, to help create, to take down,
if need be to build up when we need to be.
This is the Daily Mess. I have a coworker at
my essential job. He is a hardcore Southern preacher. Now,
if you need to do some research, please do because
when we talk about Southern Baptist preaching, we're talking about
fire and brim baby. We're going all the way, and
he is not afraid to let that monkey loose. What
he brings up in conversation is the type of stuff
I was accused of spreading during my final moments of
terrestrial radio, except I didn't put the word God, Jesus
or anything like that inside my conversations. All I wanted
to do was inspire people to believe in their own creativity.
We do it all the time right here on the
Daily Mess on the choice the lyrics to Billy's for us,
it's all about creativity. I want to build you up.
But some people were offended by the way that I
try to inspire others to believe in themselves enough to
have the courage and the confidence to grow as a
creative person. My intentions were to be positive and to
use positive thinking as a tool. Learning that not everybody
wants to be positive, I learned the hard way, because
I was always pulled into those meetings. My coworker, though,
he likes to bring up God and the way that
God should be punishing people, and that God of the
Old Testament is the one that should be in control
of not only this nation, but the entire world. And
he uses the verses. Man, I'm standing there going, oh
my God, please help me. And because I just want
to listen, maybe he's got this on his chest. Maybe
he's practicing something like a comedian practices or a musician practices.
And because I do study the word, maybe I just
have been called to be in that moment. But but
the thing is is that he brings it. He brings
that word, and I sit there and I wonder if
this is a form of religious abuse, and I had
to look that up and and and what. I'm not
accusing him of that, but I know that he's not
the only one who does do that. Because the experts
say that a person who brings religion to work, you
cannot fire them for that. All you can do is
invite them to calm down. Just calm down, or as
as a regular everyday person, if we know what they're
speaking of. When you come in contact with them. Then
don't come in contact with them. Do everything you can
to keep your conversation short, to the point, hey, how
you doing, and move on. I do listen, but I
also do not compete against him. What I'm taught in
my church versus what he teaches in his church. We
don't talk about that because it's two completely different things,
same God, just to completely different things. Who's right, who's wrong?
We're both right, and I think that's what we need
to do in this world today is quit taking sides
and believe in each other's strength on whatever God you
bring into your life. I'm Marril and that's the daily mess.