welcome to a taste of theatre where everyone is a star this is the place where playwrights from around the country will come to showcase one scene of their play today star shining  a proud father of an awesome children and i love the lord and so glad to be a part of your program here this afternoon to tell us what is the hustler all about well the hustle is the unique story of jacob and esau so from an urban perspective what we do is we go into bible stories and i make a real playing sort of people can understand in today's language and i was a hustler growing up in history so it's really not hard for me to tell a story of hustler but the lord save me and say it's me and gave me a well the story is important victor because we live in a time in age where people are being controlled influenced by fear and fear will back you up in a corner and have it a place where you neglect your gift and gaffa be it that we live that and never contribute what i give swear some story this story about it's important people understand the saw neglected is good for most of the meat and people are waiting in line to take your place when you won't do it whenever you want to perform whatever it is that god gave you to perform so whatever it is do it make this your year of doing things stop procrastinating stop talking about it this is the year to be about it that's what god told me i wrote the play eight years ago and i said this is the year to do it don't make any more skews this don't worry about the forth and overcome the spirit of fear and apprehension and put it out there and it's been incredible the people i've met the people we've run into and the many resources that we've had backing us up because of just putting something out there by faith teacher telling me that i didn't write it you know half actually was incensed and wanted to know who i got to write the stuff for me because she said an adult must have done it and i don't know you know i don't know what was going on back then i still don't know what a motivation was but you know it's amazing how you can have a gift to somebody can come along and either help enhance it all come along and count to stall your process so be you know be careful what you say particularly to some youngster that might be trying to come up and might have some skill or skill level that might be a little abnormal might be a lot higher than perhaps other his peers you know make him feel bad about a lot of not if they can do this thing you know so i had a second teacher to maybe feel a little bit better about it as i got a little bit older and here i am now you know fifty one years  well jacob had to forgive himself but stricken his brother his brother had to forgive him for having been straight and jacob had to understand that you know you don't have to go through some bumps and some bruises based on some of the decisions that you made and i certainly have you know in my personal life but you know it's better late than never you know in this life don't give up you know whatever happens in your life don't count it count it all joy learn from your mistakes be harmful you know if you give yourself  to get people to hang on never even action because way too much weight to carry around you know and god wants to live a free life a flowing life where we can be effective you know so we can you know don't keep score you know love don't keep score just keep all rolled in and everything fall in place if you learn how to forgive and let this stuff  well you know like you to know that the grace of god is so real that the joy of god is so also in that when a man or woman would just avail themselves to the grace and i might of god there is no limit to what do you do for your living on borrowed time so i no time to waste and i just like to say to everybody to redeem the times because it's high time to wake up out of sleep so my message to everybody is that the lawyers say me and that ain't no secret what do you do what he did if i'm me here do the same thing for you my advice to wow that's because i'm kind of covered what's going on in people's lives today you know we act like a something new when we run into these different family issues that we have but there's nothing new under the sun jacob tricks his brother people are still trick the brothers today jacob was slick people still think they nickel slick today esau was negligent people are still negligent today rebecca as they were not on want to court this son's knew it and play both ends against the middle people have dysfunctional families now just like they had way back then with jacob and esau you have a mother and a father prefer a different children and a key is not at they smell blood and it's so important you know that people understand it don't you know and let your kids play games that the let them know who run a career you know they don't run nothing you don't know that because you have chaos and envy and strife in your house and that's what they experience back in that day and that's what we experience in this day these many years thousands of years later nothing has changed  so we need to understand the mistakes they made learn from those mistakes and the main thing that made me really want to write this story is the fact it as it passed down the blessing of abraham to a son jacob and that if you love god and do right by god you have the power to be able to lay hands on a person in a sea generational curses broken to see things open up that would never open up any other kind of way so we've been laying hands on people follow wrong reasons being people down and what have you and some of malicious things that people do to lay hands but i just want to thank god for knowing my hands and using them now if it was right and i want to admonish everybody to get some power on a saturday you know that you can let out and to your next generation so they can let it out in the next myriad of a myriad of values in it a myriad of things that we can draw from it and i think it has kind of capsulizes so many stories and one and it's just really a fascinating story just really just to me was the most important for me to  made up some things that i think probably would have happened would have transpired in those conversations so you know i had to reach into my imagination to come up with things that isaac and rebecca would talk about so i'd say those characters were it was real important to me that we understand that there was some dynamics happening between them that aren't written in a bible but certainly must have happened they were challenging the characters right but on the most fun because they were the most challenging involved pray for me i got over that well i just really really studied the lives of from genesis the twenty seven chapter particular to the thirty second chapter i read it in re read it and then god just gave me revelation as you know about how to make this like it happen today you know so my research is strictly from the scriptures and i really do a whole lot of reading outside of their lives because the scriptures are so rich until that we're just you know  bible it was written with such inspiration and to if we could just glean from that we have such a civilized land a living and you know so most of my research was from genesis twenty seven chapter to the thirty second chapter and i'd like to encourage everybody to go home we're still discussing it because it was so real it was so riven is so powerful and it blends generation after generation after generation after generation of people and wow to me this is the most awesome part of th me really the fact that you can touch somebody mean literally touch somebody with the power of god in you and change some things imagine a blessing right now in the city of chicago and and all of a sudden all the guns drop is in a city of chicago and all of a sudden the employment level goes up less than outside as in the city of chicago and all the sudden a bunch of responsible mistah taking care of their families less than our children boys in the city of chicago particularly boys get going you go no way for the situation of a calm perfect because it's just not reality you know take some risk you know no work by fax work by faith you know it's ok to do some research it's ok to to look at your numbers together and all that sort of thing but when it comes down to it god will really use you if you trust god you know he will really use you if you trust god if you've got some skills you know don't leave your skills at home bring him to the forefront and whatever it is baby leave it on a plane i feel you know if leave it on a plane feel the end whatever happens you can feel good about yourself so i say go with courage you know go a bonus people respect people that a bowl you know people really give you respect they respect the way that you approach them you know i don't never have a purse probably a person telling me no you know you tell me no you can tell me yes but you will tell me something ok that's my advice make sure that people tell you something don't let people leave you hanging a little note it just be definitive with the and then you can take it if they say wonderful yes this if you take value with you everywhere you go you'll be accepted just about anywhere