Lesson 15: Clarity

In this episode, we step back into the Forge—the place where thoughts, memories, and the unseen parts of our life take shape. Last time, we talked about organizing the mind, understanding the rooms we’ve built from brokenness. Today, we’re going deeper into something even more powerful: clarity.

What does clarity look like when your hopes feel far away? When life demands more than you think you can give? When your heart gets tired of waiting?

Through stories of childhood hope, prayer, disappointment, faith, and the unseen visions that guide us, I explain how clarity isn’t about what your eyes see—it’s about what your soul knows. Whether you’re believing for healing, a better future, a restored family, or simply a breakthrough in your own confidence, clarity is the fire that shapes the steel of who you are.

Inside the Forge, I share:

• How clarity grows in unseen places
• Why hope can hurt but still lead you forward
• How childhood faith teaches adult vision
• Why insecurities aren’t permanent
• And how to trust what you see even when no one else sees it yet

If you feel lost, you can be found.
 If you feel unloved, you are loved—by me, and by God.

I am the Timesmith.
 God bless.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:09

Have you ever been lost in your thoughts? Randomness. A thought pops into your head, and you don't know where it came from. Many times it's your past, things that have happened that have not let you go. Why have they unlimited? Let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_00: 0:44

Hi, I'm the Timesmith, and welcome back. I hope you had time to listen to my last lesson, organize. I think you like it. It shares a little bit about how I developed this, the Forge. Coming in, creating rooms, the mind of brokenness. But today I want to talk about clarity. What does that mean to you? So let's step in. This season I want to spend more time trying to explain more about my process, the mind of brokenness. But I think I've also told myself for many years, you're crazy. That's the truth. I know I don't think like everyone else. I know that my process isn't like everyone else's. I think we can say that about anyone though. We're all very unique and made differently. Yes, saying that we are made will tell you that I believe that we are created. By who? By the one who is unseen. Is that clear? Well that's clarity. You know when I look around in this room, in this forage, I think about things that are unseen to the whole world, but they're seen by me. Well, at this point my audience isn't that large, so when I say the whole world, I just mean you. I do hope, right in the unseen and things that are hopeful, that one day the audience would be large enough that I could say the whole world. Currently at the moment, it might just be a few people. But it's okay, I'll get there. That is the unseen. So is that just hopefulness? Or is that clarity? Well I hope many things. I hope for peace, I hope to break through barriers, I hope to overcome my shortcomings. Yes, the day starts extremely exciting, full of enthusiasm, and at the end of the day it might end with some sadness because of that hopefulness. Let me explain further. Hope does make the heart sick. We can go all day encouraging ourselves, we could see signs that things are gonna happen today. But how many times have we laid our head on that pillow and thought to ourselves, it didn't happen? Well, when you've been through that moment long enough, you'll know that it's just a waiting game at times. Not only that, but if you've had one hope come true, then you can rely that the next one will happen as well. We as people have higher demands for what we want life to be. I'm sorry, I didn't ask you guys to take a seat, but if you're not already sitting in the forge, please sit down, enjoy it, grab your cup of coffee, your soda, your drink, and thank you for hearing me. And if uh this bores you, power through, it's good information, I promise you. But let me get back to what I was saying, is that if you've had one hope come to pass, meaning that it's happened. When we were children, or better yet said, when I was a child, I would ask my mom for a shirt, maybe a specific type of shirt. When I was a child, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Super Mario Brothers were huge. Well, in fact they still are, but I wanted a shirt and my mom gave me that shirt. It wasn't the same day, but I do remember wearing that shirt to school, both of them. So it allowed me to have hope. It allowed me to see the unseen because I saw myself wearing that t-shirt. I saw myself in school walking around with the Super Mario Brothers logo on my shirt, with the character jumping up and hitting a pal block, a specific type of shirt, a red shirt, and it happened. My hope came alive. Well, when you get older, the hope isn't just a t-shirt. The hope could be that you find a great job, that the dream you've had about starting a business would happen, that the healing you pray for comes. But now the demand seems way too large and doubt fills our hearts. It fills our mind, it fills our approach. Even the words out of our own mouth to get a t-shirt, it might have sounded like this when I was a child. Hey mom, I was thinking about a shirt. Oh yeah, which one? About a Super Mario Brothers shirt, a red one with Mario hitting a power block with this one fist in the air. I saw myself wearing it. Hmm, mom says. You did? Yep, can you buy me it? I don't know, young Timesmith. I'd have to see. I gotta work, and then we have to find it. Well I know where they sell one. Well, with a lot of hope and faith, I knew it was gonna happen. I had clarity. I saw it, I saw it happening. Do you see your healing today? Do you see that job? Do you see your kids doing good? Or maybe you are the kid. Do you see yourself today doing good? That's clarity, but it's in the unseen. The forge might be unseen to you, but it's seen to me. Are you brave enough to share it? Well here I am sharing it with you, and I can say, yes, I am brave enough to share it with you. When I recorded my first lesson, I was a little nervous. I didn't know how I would feel after being vulnerable and sharing, but I realized that it didn't matter because there was things I was telling myself that I wanted to happen. So in order for those things to happen in my life, I had to take a step forward. I had to get a mic, I had to open my mouth, I had to be transparent. The unseen. It requires clarity. So are you sure about what you see today? Are you sure that you can work through your problems? Or do you feel unsure? Do you have some insecurities? If you have insecurities, that's fine. Many people do. You wouldn't be alone in that one. That has been overcome. Actually many things in this life has have been overcome. Sadness and depression, lack of confidence. Those things have been overcome. That's clear. There's actually many books about that. You just have to take the time to read, educate yourself and grow. It's not enough to say I want something and not go after it. You'd have to step forward. Again, as I was saying, the demand feels too high. Who do we even ask? Yes, does a child get on their knees and pray for a shirt? Or does he go to his mother? Well, I could tell you the type of child I was. And maybe that's because the way I was raised. But yes, I learned young to actually get on my knees and pray and ask God for this life. There are certain things I didn't ask for though, and those things seem to have come to me quicker than the things I asked for, including the hardships. Having hope makes the heart sick. Hmm. When I'm in the forge, I look around. Maybe I'll go stare at something I've placed in this room. If you've never been to a forge or a workshop, you might not exactly picture what I'm picturing, but I see a constant fire going so that I can heat up the steel. For those who don't know, I am a welder, and I do some blacksmithing. Maybe one more analogy. When I get commissioned for work and someone says, for example, can you make me a candle labra? I'll say yes, what kind? And they'll explain. Maybe flowers, maybe a large stand, rosettes, something that makes it look elegant. On the working end, I have to come up with a plan, and that plan could be drawing and also thinking out how difficult it is to make that steel do what I need it to do. And then I go purchase full lengths of steel. But I don't go purchase flowers and rosettes. I have to make that. That product I have is only seen as a bar, as a rod, and not as a flower. And many times the customers cannot see what I see. It's unseen to them, but it's seen to me. In fact, I see it clearly. I see what I have to do to turn it into what has been requested to be made. So maybe you've made a request today. Maybe you've spoken into the air. Maybe you've written it down in hope. Maybe you've prayed to God. I think it's important to know that when we place a request, we must see that it's possible for it to come to life with clarity. Everything will be okay. That's clear. The plans that you have will work out. That's clear. If you're a little bit older, you might understand that everything always works out. Apply that to your mind. Apply that to your heart. That if you are seeking answers, you'll find them. If you're looking for something in your life, it will appear. That's clear. So if you feel lost, you can be found. And if you feel unloved, you are loved. I am a Timesmith. God bless.