A Conversation with Charity Williams | Kingdom Creativity Series, Pt. 4

What if your creativity didn’t have to be perfect to be powerful? In this final episode of the Kingdom Creativity series with Charity Williams, we explore what happens when you let go of pressure, partner with heaven, and just create. From a breakthrough moment sparked by the question “Does it have to be a something?” to stories of unexpected impact, this conversation is a reminder that your art — and your voice — doesn’t need perfection to carry Presence. 

We talk about the fear and overthinking that sometimes keeps creatives stuck, the freedom to “do it afraid,” and how even a messy yes can activate miracles. Whether it’s a podcast seven years in the making or a painting or song that unlocks healing, this episode will inspire you to kick fear in the face and release what’s inside of you… and ONLY YOU. Because someone out there needs YOUR creative something — even if it doesn’t look to you like anything at all! 

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The Everyday Dad Podcast (by Tyler Williams, Charity’s husband)

Chapters

• 0:00 Happy Friyay!
• 0:54 Creating Space Through Vulnerability
• 2:14 Does It Have To Be A Something?
• 5:08 The Impact of Sharing Your Creativity
• 6:20 Defeating Fear and Overthinking
• 12:25 Today's Kus Word: Do It Afraid!

Transcript

Michele: 0:00

It's Friyay, July 11th, and this is Today's Kus Word. Welcome to Today's Kus Word. I'm Michele Kus, your spiritual growth coach, coming at you with another Friday episode. I have my fourth and final conversation with Charity Williams today on kingdom creativity, and you don't want to miss it.

Charity: 0:26

I think one of my other mantras is do it afraid, just do it. Just do it afraid, you know if it's terrifying.

Charity: 0:33

You just say yes and move forward anyway, because God has a purpose in it and I think when we can do it anyway, you know it's impact like that. Like not everybody's gonna be willing to be that vulnerable and put their garbage out there and not like I was, you know, putting my garbage out there. But you know what I mean and you know it's in those places of vulnerability, as creatives, that we create space for someone else to go, I'm not alone? I'm seen, I'm heard, I'm safe and because of that, because you're vulnerable, you're willing to create that space for me. You know I can breathe and I can go, I'm not alone, I'm not weird, I'm not messed up, I'm not too far gone.

Charity: 1:21

You know God is here and he's encountering my heart and I'm healed and I'm well and I get to move from this place because I'm seen. You know I'm seen and he sees me and he loves me and you know it's just, ah, it just. It gives me goosebumps, like it just, he's so good, you know he's so, so, so good. So, yeah, I mean there's been tons of testimonies of people you know receiving things like that. One time one of my friends was super frustrated with a painting. She's like I'm not a painter, but she was doing it anyway, so she was doing it afraid.

Charity: 1:59

Going back to that. You don't have to be good to just do something. And she's like I don't know what I'm making, I don't know what this is, and she always tells me and I truly I don't remember the moment of saying this to her, but she's like you looked me in the eyes and you said, Does it have to be a something? And she's like, I felt everything break off of me in that moment. She's like, I all of a sudden was like does it have to be a something? It doesn't have to be a something. I can just play, I can just create. It doesn't have to be anything, it just has to be me and Jesus and that's enough.

Charity: 2:40

And she reminds me of that testimony all the time. She's like you don't know how much I use that. She's like does it have to be a something? It doesn't have to be a something, it gets to just be an is, and an is enough to just be. And so I think that's like applicable to, I mean, all of our lives.

Charity: 2:56

It's like do we have to make a something? Do we have to produce a something? You know? No, we just get to be, we just get to create and be in his presence and it's enough. And if it doesn't look like anything, that's okay. You know, if it doesn't sound good, that's okay. Like the fact that we're partnering with him and we're creating with him is enough to bring that breakthrough and to bring healing, and I think it it kept me from creating a lot. Um, it's like, well, if I'm going to paint a painting, then it has to be a masterpiece, has to be, you know, sell worthy and good enough, and you know somebody would want to buy it. It needs to be, it needs to be good, it needs to be perfect. And I got to that point where I'm like it doesn't, it doesn't have to be a masterpiece, it just has to be a moment with Jesus and that's enough.

Michele: 3:48

I love that. Oh, there's so much good stuff in what you said. Yeah, there's so much freedom in that. You know, I don't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be a thing, and it might not even be a thing to you, but it might be a thing to someone else who it's meant for. You know?

Charity: 4:08

Exactly, yep.

Michele: 4:09

So I just had an experience like that with a song. I was writing this song and I don't know, I was just having fun with it and my friend had just written a book and I threw her book title into the lyrics. And, it was just, I was just having fun with it and kind of capturing the essence of this book and, um, so I sent the song to her yesterday actually, the mp3 to her, and she couldn't even get through two lines without crying. She kept texting me like, You have no idea how much this means to me and how it brought up just kind of some, uh, like she was missing a friend who had passed away, who used to like play music over her, and this was like nobody had ever done that since she passed away, and then someone just randomly sent her a song.

Charity: 5:05

Come on!

Michele: 5:07

So it's like you just don't know how God is going to work through your creativity. He'll surprise you.

Charity: 5:19

And I bet you felt nervous to send it to her and like a little like, is this silly, is this like you know? But you did it and like look what happened. Like when we just do it, brave, we just do it, you know. Like yeah, that's amazing.

Michele: 5:37

It's just really ministered to her and so, yeah, we just we just don't know how our stuff is going to impact people.

Charity: 5:47

Aw, I love that.

Michele: 5:48

Yeah, it's just partnering with heaven. Charity, what advice would you give someone who feels maybe called to write or paint or dance or create or make a business or write a book, any of those creative endeavors but maybe they're feeling stuck, maybe they feel discouraged, maybe they're not sure how to partner with heaven. What advice would you give them, Charity Williams?

Charity: 6:17

I think I think honestly, you know, I think about why are we stuck? You know, what are, what are we stuck on? A lot of times it's fear, you know. It's fear of the unknown. A lot of times it's fear, you know, it's fear of the unknown, it's fear of what if it fails, what if, what if it, you know, doesn't look right. What if, what if, what if? It's that fear, I think that that likes to hold us back. You know that gets us stuck. We just get stuck in that cycle of analysis. You know, for those that are are are analyzers, and they just think and and they overthink, and they think again, and they, you know, they get, they get paralyzed with thinking, you know, and so it's, but it's fear, I think, it's fear based, and I think, I think the only way to break out of that fear is to do it afraid. Just jump, you know just jump, just do it.

Charity: 7:09

Like my, my husband, um, for example, he has had in his heart this podcast. He has a podcast now which he launched it this year. I'm so proud of him. But he got the idea about seven years ago, um, The Everyday Dad, and i t's a podcast geared towards um, dads and encouraging dads.

Charity: 7:29

And you know, so often dads are kind of like, you know, loser dads or you know, like dads are kind of have this stereotypical loser mindset that the world kind of puts on. You know all the TV shows the dads are usually losers, you know, and or they're drunks or they're. You know it's just like this and he's like, no, like I want to have, I want to have stories of like real stories of how dads dad and what it looks like to be a dad and be a present dad and an engaged dad and how does it feel? And how does it feel when you mess up and you yell at your kid and then you go apologize and you humble yourself. Like what does that look like? Like I want to talk to the dads. And so he's had this in his heart for about, like I said, seven years and he is one of those guys that gets paralyzed by overthinking. You know, he just overthinks and overthinks and overthinks and worries and overthinks, and but

Michele: 8:26

I don't know what that's like.

Charity: 8:27

Yeah, I, you know I'm like, oh my gosh! Well I'm, I'm the crazy one that just jumps in the deep end and then he always has to save me. So he's like he's like what are you doing now? And I'm like it'll be fine. So we're like polar opposites in that way, and I'm I'm learning to tame myself and not just jump at every opportunity, so that so we're, we're balancing ourselves out. But, um, you know, he launched it and he and he did it, but like he did it afraid, you know he's, he's just like I'm doing it, you know, and he just did. And so, um, you know, and, and then working out that thing. So, but I think, I think it's just so important to just go.

Charity: 9:10

You know, I say, look fear in the face and do it anyway. You know you look fear in the face and you take that step. You, you push play, you you push post, you, you know whatever it is, you you put that paper, you know that pencil to paper. You, you know, you, you begin that business, you, you launch it and you do it not from a place of fear, but like almost in spite of fear. Like fear, you don't have a place in my life.

Charity: 9:38

So I'm going to say yes, just to like tick you off, you know. And it's like, it's like you don't get to hold me back, like God didn't give us a spirit of fear. So if I'm feeling fear then that's the wrong spirit. And I'm going to say I'm going to kick fear in the face and I'm going to go anyway. And I'm going to say I'm going to kick fear in the face and I'm going to go anyway, and I'm going to go, I'm powerful, I'm loved and I have a sound mind. And so I'm going to look fear in the face and I'm going to go, I'm so powerful because I'm empowered by God. I'm so deeply loved. Like I can't fail because God doesn't fail so we're, we're forward and I have a sound mind.

Charity: 10:18

So when those lies come and they like to oh, what are you doing? Who are you? You're an imposter. You know. Everybody's going to know that you're not really who you say you are. You know, one day, you know. I have a sound mind, so I'll have to listen to those things. And so fear, kick the back door. You're done. You know I'm moving forward and I think that that's like the biggest part of it is just shaking off that fear and going, You don't get to hold me, you don't get to tell me what my future is, God does. And from that place sinking in, from that place of identity, I get to lean in. I, you know, I get to look at Him and I get to listen and move forward. You know, and I get to do the things. And as you, you know, I was reading.

Charity: 11:02

I was reading in Joshua.

Charity: 11:04

Oh, I love it so much.

Charity: 11:05

I was reading in Joshua and in Joshua I don't know what chapter, I don't know what verse, but like the theme of it is God saying, you know, telling Joshua, like, go into the promised land, and he goes, With your yes, I will defeat the enemies before you.

Charity: 11:23

And so it was like Joshua's yes activated that defeat of the enemies and the enemies were defeated and if you look it up, the enemies, the names of the tribes, were like greed and anxiety and worry and like all of these things that we deal with in our natural lives. And it was like, with Joshua's yes and him moving forward, God went before him and destroyed all of these enemies and made the way for them to enter their promised land. And so sometimes we just have to move, we just have to say yes, and we move and like, all of a sudden, there's a way, you know it's the way is made, and God clears the path and we're like, oh, I thought this was going to be so hard, you know. And you're just like I'm moving forward, like I'm finally living my dream, because I just got fed up enough with fear and I just said doing it anyway, you know, so do it, anyway, just do it.

Michele: 12:25

I love that. We're going to make that Today's Kus Word. Do it afraid. So that's Today's Kus Word, y'all: Do it afraid. And there you have it, my friend. Do it afraid. If the enemy has been telling you lies about who you're not, you just remind him of who he's not. And then you get out there and release your art, release your song, release your idea, release your book, release your business, release your creation, the one only you can do, because someone somewhere out there is waiting for you to release it. And that is what I got for you today, my friend.

Michele: 13:09

I hope you loved this fourth and final part in our Kingdom Creativity series and, if you did, make sure you share it with a friend and make sure you connect with Charity and everything she's doing. Of course, I have dropped all the links to her website and her socials down in the Show Notes, so check those out. And I've also dropped a link in the Show Notes to Charity's husband Tyler's podcast called The Everyday Dad Podcast. She mentioned that podcast on today's episode, so make sure you check that out and share that with all the awesome dads in your life. So next week I will be launching into something super cool, something brand new, something I've never done before on this show, but something that is near and dear to my heart and was actually inspired by this whole conversation on kingdom creativity that Charity and I had. So make sure you're following this podcast on your favorite platform so you don't miss the cool stuff coming up. Thanks so much for joining me today and until next time, have an awesome day.