We know that God gives us free will and he does so through love (which he himself is) by the ascension of his son, Jesus Christ. Before ascending back to heaven, Jesus tells us that it is better for us that he should leave. Why is that? Because by ascending, he not only then can send his Holy Spirit down upon the apostles, which is now our inheritance, he then allows us to live by and in faith. If Jesus were to remain on earth then we would not live by faith. We would live by force. If God dwelt among us and that was known, all would eventually have no choice but to surrender to him. That is not free will, that is slavery. God does not desire us to be his slaves, but his sons. By ascending, he shows that he grants us free will to choose him and he does this because he loves us. You cannot love someone whom you force to love you, as that is not love. Love must be freely given & received. In the ascension Jesus gives us a glimpse of the essence of love. Once we, freely, make the choice to love God, he grants us an outpouring of his love via the Holy Spirit. It is better for us that this happens, instead of Christ being here, because him ascending back to heaven is the only way in which we are able to then live as Christ desires us to.

The most exciting thing about Bitcoin is that in can allow for life that is rightly ordered between leisure, useful work & useless work.

Go to mass today. Jesus is really present there & he really does want you to go.

I don’t think it’s possible to explain the freedom that comes from get on zero until you actually make the leap and do it

The primary reason physical training of some sort is so impactful for the Christian is that the training mimics what it’s like to follow Christ so well. In training, there are few low days, even fewer high days, but there’s a ton of nothing days. Not high, not low, just go out and do it. We can use the same mindset used throughout this training to (correctly) continue turning towards God when, for the most part, it feels like nothing. Of course in reality it’s not nothing, in training or holiness, but that only becomes clear after years of leaning into the nothing.

More & more I am seeing the benefit of hard work for hard works sake and nothing else. Hard work with and end in mind other than the work itself is centered on that other thing. Hard work as its own end forces one to live in the present and nothing else. And in that is where God is found.

Can we all agree that hardback books look way better without their covers on?

Every time I spin up a new node, or resync an existing one, I’m reminded of just how awesome Bitcoin is.

Excited for this read

Anyone have an opinion on Framework computer as compared to System76?