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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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Is there anything more refreshing than the next morning after

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a big thunderstorm you walk outside and it feels like

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everything's been ionized, and you're going, oh my god, it

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smells so good out here. You look into the forest,

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so you see the deer, you see the squirrels, and

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you just feel like that you're part of something so universal.

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But you're only this much of the story. Everything else

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around you is so much larger and more important. But

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just to be this much of the story allows you

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to breathe in and just feel like, wow, we belong together.

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It's like jazz. It really isn't supposed to work, but

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it does. How Hey Sarow, This is the Daily Mess,

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a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a

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daily writer. I am a silent wolf, the wolf that

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sits underneath the brush and watches life, documents things that

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are moving, and finds peace in all things that aren't moving.

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To motivate, to inspire, to help create, to take down,

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if need be to build up when we need to be.

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This is the Daily Mess. I have a coworker at

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my essential job. He is a hardcore Southern preacher. Now,

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if you need to do some research, please do because

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when we talk about Southern Baptist preaching, we're talking about

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fire and brim baby. We're going all the way, and

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he is not afraid to let that monkey loose. What

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he brings up in conversation is the type of stuff

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I was accused of spreading during my final moments of

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terrestrial radio, except I didn't put the word God, Jesus

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or anything like that inside my conversations. All I wanted

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to do was inspire people to believe in their own creativity.

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We do it all the time right here on the

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Daily Mess on the choice the lyrics to Billy's for us,

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it's all about creativity. I want to build you up.

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But some people were offended by the way that I

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try to inspire others to believe in themselves enough to

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have the courage and the confidence to grow as a

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creative person. My intentions were to be positive and to

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use positive thinking as a tool. Learning that not everybody

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wants to be positive, I learned the hard way, because

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I was always pulled into those meetings. My coworker, though,

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he likes to bring up God and the way that

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God should be punishing people, and that God of the

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Old Testament is the one that should be in control

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of not only this nation, but the entire world. And

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he uses the verses. Man, I'm standing there going, oh

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my God, please help me. And because I just want

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to listen, maybe he's got this on his chest. Maybe

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he's practicing something like a comedian practices or a musician practices.

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And because I do study the word, maybe I just

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have been called to be in that moment. But but

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the thing is is that he brings it. He brings

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that word, and I sit there and I wonder if

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this is a form of religious abuse, and I had

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to look that up and and and what. I'm not

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accusing him of that, but I know that he's not

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the only one who does do that. Because the experts

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say that a person who brings religion to work, you

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cannot fire them for that. All you can do is

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invite them to calm down. Just calm down, or as

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as a regular everyday person, if we know what they're

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speaking of. When you come in contact with them. Then

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don't come in contact with them. Do everything you can

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to keep your conversation short, to the point, hey, how

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you doing, and move on. I do listen, but I

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also do not compete against him. What I'm taught in

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my church versus what he teaches in his church. We

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don't talk about that because it's two completely different things,

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same God, just to completely different things. Who's right, who's wrong?

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We're both right, and I think that's what we need

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to do in this world today is quit taking sides

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and believe in each other's strength on whatever God you

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bring into your life. I'm Marril and that's the daily mess.