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DON'T DIE WITH MY THINGS.

Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you (1 Timothy 4:14).

[Chapter 1]
Suppose…
Suppose Shakespeare had died before he wrote his poems and plays—the potential of Macbeth would have been buried.

Suppose
Michelangelo had died before he painted the Sistine Chapel or DaVinci the Mona Lisa—the beauty of their paintings would have been lost.

Suppose Mozart had died with all that music in his bosom.

Suppose Moses had died before he saw the burning bush…

Paul before he met Jesus on the Damascus Road…

Abraham before Isaac was born.....
How different the pages of Scripture and history would be.

Suppose Martin Luther had died without writing the thesis…

Charles Wesley without penning the hymns…John Wycliffe without translating the Bible into English. How different the history of the Church might have been.

Can you imagine how many great works of art, music, and literature are buried in the graveyard near your house?

Can you imagine
how many solutions to the problems we face today are buried with someone you knew?

People die without getting out their full potential. They fail to use all that was stored in them for the benefit of the world.

I wonder what would have happened if your father had died before you were conceived or your mother before you were born.

What would the world have lost if you had not been born? What will the world lack because you fail to live out your potential?

Will you carry songs, books, inventions, cures, or discoveries to your grave?
What would the world have lost if you had not been born?

Our teens are committing suicide. I wonder who they were supposed to be and what they were supposed to do that we will never
know. Have we lost some great leaders? Was your grandchild’s professor or another Martin Luther King among them?

WHAT WILL
THE WORLD
LACK BECAUSE YOU
FAIL TO LIVE OUT YOUR
POTENTIAL.

Dr. Myles Munroe — with Alex Susukpor

The first trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” just came out.

It is a real passion project and he’s spent ~50 years bringing it to life, including self-financing the $120m budget by selling his winery.

Here’s the timeline:

1977: Originates the idea for a film about the re-building of New York after a disaster (he was 38 and this was while he was finishing up “Apocalypse Now”).
1983: Writes 400 pages of script excerpts and films notes.
1989-1996: Tries to get funding for the film but studios balk.
2001: Actors audition for the script and he films 30+ hours of background footage around New York (he pauses the entire project after 9/11).
2009: Picks the project back up and re-writes the script 300+ times over the next decade.
2019: Sells a big stake in Francis Ford Coppola winery (which he launched with his wife — RIP Eleanor — in 2010) to finance the movie.
2022-23: Films “Megalopolis” during COVID in a difficult production.

It’s not the first time Copolla has bet the farm. He put up ~$10m, mortgaged his home and gave up royalties on “The Godfather” to finance 1979’s “Apocalypse Now”. It was an insane production but he owned all rights and has made ~$100m from the IP.

He also self-financed his next film — 1982’s “One From The Heart” — but it was a complete dud and he lost $26m.

I have no idea if “Megalopolis” will be good but the cast looks legit including Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, and Dustin Hoffman…

…and I feel compelled to watch for how much Coppola put on the line still into his mid-80s.