How To Know When To Keep Pushing An Idea

When do you know when to keep pushing on an

idea or when it's done.

The part that makes me want to take a nap

is when I have to organize it. That's my sticking point. Now,

Like creatively, you got to have the self awareness to

know what's the part where I want to quit and

around that part of your creative process. If you can

pay attention to that pattern and you can put something

in place that helps you get through it, you'll release

more stuff into the world. Sometimes that's collaboration. I would

probably never finish a worship song if it weren't for

co writing. And I know that, and so I know, oh,

it's time for me to bring someone in now on

this idea.

On a sermon is trickier.

Because ain't nobody else to bring in on it. And

I'm going to tell you another thing, be very careful

sharing your creative embryo with somebody showing it like it's

a baby picture, because all embryos are ugly. You know that,

right There is no such thing as a cute fetus.

I really think think that's something right there. There's no

such things as a cute fetus. And so when you're

telling people like, oh, check out this, check out this thing.

I quit doing that years ago.

The reason is because at this stage of my experience,

I have enough reps to trust the experience that God

has enabled me to have. I don't trust my flush,

but I trust the experience that God is in the

gift and the position, and all.

That that my annoying.

All that that being said, if you start trying to

explain it to someone, it's a little weird. It's like

trying to explain a dance but not doing it.

Try it. It's the hardest thing in the world.

Or trying to explain a song but you can't sing

it or you can't make a beat. And I always

think that when you share something like I wonder if

Instagram makes this worse because we think something in a

immediately need validation that is good rather than you know,

some of you in the room are more patient, and

I admire you because once I have the thought, I want.

To share it with everybody right now, and I.

Don't want to take time and study it and put

it in order. That part wears me out, and I

have to pay attention to my cycles. And if I

start sharing it with like Holly, for instance, she loves

me so much, and she is like my number one fan,

and my mom's my number one fan. And I just

said that in case they're both watching, they are my co.

Number one fans. That being sad.

She makes this furrowed face if I start telling her

my idea too soon, and she's like, it almost happened

a minute ago when I said confident in better.

Things concerning you. See how y'all are right now.

I'm intimidated because that phrase is loaded with meaning for me,

because I studied it for two hours this morning.

I studied it for two hours.

I got Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah and Isaac all loaded

into that phrase for me, the Old Covenant, the New Covenant.

I've got a proverb that connects. It's a loaded phrase now,

but for you it's still just a phrase. So imagine

that I'm going seventy five miles an hour to get here.

You're on the side of the road and I'm like,

get it. And that's what it's.

Like when you've been thinking of an idea and you're like,

in this great and you're mad that people don't think

it's great, but they're still in park and you've been

living with this for a long time and you can

see things about it. So you have to know when

to slow down and bring people along, and you have

to know you have to know when to shut the

door and keep people out. And then you have to

know when is that moment that I want to subject

this creative idea to judgment. Now maybe I'm the only

one who feels this way. I believe everybody has the

right to express their creativity. As long as it's not anything,

you know, that violates our faith. You can express it.

You can write poems, sonnets, haikus, you know what else

you could You can write a song. If it's for

you and the Lord. Then the ultimate goal is just expression.

Maybe it's therapeutic when you bring it into a church context.

I'm not creating a sermon for the purpose of self expression,

although that's going to be part of it. It's an

act of service. So it's not just oh, what inspires me?

It's what can I give to others that they can digest?

And so I can't give like a two year old

Filet mignon. That's called casting pearls before pigs. Pigs aren't bad,

they just don't have any use for pearls.

It's a conflict of nature.

So when you share an idea too soon what I

think it does, it's like it's like salmonella. It's like

everybody it goes away feeling bad. It's like you don't think, no,

the dish was going to be good. But knowing Sometimes

when an idea, I think that's a muscle that you develop.

You learn it through failure, you learn it through.

Going wow, I thought this was a lot better than

it was, and then I went.

To pitch it.

And we've all had those moments where you cross the

threshold from this is my personal creative thing that's in

my journal and now this is a blog post. The

moment that you express it, you subject it to judgment.

I have some notebooks that I lock up. They actually

have a lock on them. That's where I can write anything.

This is not just a prayer notebook. This is everything notebook.

But I lock it up.

That's not for the pulpit.

That stuff I'm processing as a man, as a sinner,

as somebody who has a million questions. And then I

have to know, God, I'm gonna stand before people, Now,

what am I ready to share with them?

What have you given me enough?

Wisdom on that it's not going to be me bleeding

on them. And if it's personal, I always have this rule. Okay,

never show your wounds. You cover your wounds so they

can heal. You show your scars after it is healed,

then you can show it to somebody. But you don't

get up in the pulpit as a preacher and go y'all.

Me and my wife hadn't spoke all week, and I

don't know if we will again this week.

Let's open the word of God. We all struggle and

we all need grace. Now. The whole church is praying

so hard for you and your marriage. They can't hear

what you're saying, but.

It might be good, like after you've come through the

other side of that to do it. So God, am

I ready to share this? Is this something that's still

too raw? Is this gonna make everybody sick? Is this

something that actually is for another time?

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