Thursday, February 12, 2026
The upside down life looks like a long “to-do” list, stacked on top of you. It’s a laundry list of goals and tasks and desires that seem a mile high, and infinitely away. Everyone has advice on how to be more “productive,” so as to get to the prize of resurrection.
And as you check off those things – everything you “need” to get done – you’ll eventually whittle down that list and get to prioritizing health, wellness, joy, play, convalescence, and innocent existence – LIFE. But first, the “to-do” list.
What’s funny about that “to-do” list is that it’s like an infestation of dirt. The more you check it off, the further you bury the prioritization of freedom, joy, play, sensual exuberance, and health.
Everything and everyone needs you. Even God needs you. Buried under a checklist is a person who simply wants to arise. Arise from what? Being buried in a check list. You want to purge this notion of being one who is “waiting” for the moment to arrive where their schedule “allows” them to finally get to the gym, to those books they want to read, or to that interesting project they would love to do. Or better yet, get to that cabana on the beach and commune with friends.
Buried under a checklist. Living begins when the bonds of a checklist are broken. Innocence emerges, freedom from running the entire universe, checking off each goal to “help God.”
Your “to-do” list is long because you think you have to run the world. It’s time to get to that “to-stop” list and realize there is nothing to do.
I guess they’ll take you out of “productivity mode” feet first. Not me.
I’ve arisen, the one beneath the “to-do” list. Arise shine, for your Light has come. Or, are you waiting to check that off the list too?