Hello, thank you so much for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of our post today is Unlock Your Creativity.

Like you, I've had many hopes and dreams over the years, some frivolous and insignificant,

others meaningful and substantive.

I recall my first baseball glove, a Pete Rose signature edition, by the way, which actually had supernatural powers of baseball artistry.

I knew it could make me a better baseball player instantly.

I was the most excited and envied kid on the block.

And, of course, the glove worked.

I was definitely the best baseball player on the block.

My dreams changed over the years as they evolved to jobs, money, a family, a home, the usual list of American dreams.

With your good looks and intelligence, my mother assured me, it will hardly be a challenge. I know what you're thinking,

but unlike most moms, mine was totally objective. I went to college to begin my journey

toward greatness and was on my way to success, fame, and fortune, that is,

until God arranged for me to go on a missionary journey to Guatemala.

It was a trick.

I was there when the earthquake in 1976 occurred,

killing 30,000 people in 30 seconds.

30,000 people in 30 seconds.

One million people were left homeless. How do you look into hopeless,

grieving eyes and dream of fame and fortune? How do you face a hungry, now fatherless three-year-old and her widowed mother,

having to turn them away because you just served the last available bowl of soup in the relief effort,

and dream of ease and comfort. My dream of owning the world transformed into changing it,

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