{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Series of posts for the Advent season", "home_page_url": "https://pype.dev/advent/", "feed_url": "https://pype.dev/advent/feed.json", "description": "My thoughts and streams of consciousness organized into barely coherent posts about things", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/", "url": "https://pype.dev/desktop-crash-2026/", "title": "Desktop Crash 2026", "content_html": "\u003ch2 id=\"pc-crash\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePC Crash\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#pc-crash\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elive-booted to ubuntu server\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efound restic backup script to NAS\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eedited to be smaller, but did the backup to the NAS\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ersync\u0026rsquo;d \u003ca href=\"/docker/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"docker - container runtime\" data-hover-title=\"docker\"\u003edocker\u003c/a\u003e volumes to BX500 SSD which is a zfs pool\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecaptured what I did on ghost at /home/nic/aurora-recovery-report.md and /home/nic/aurora-crash-disk-health-report.md\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"plan\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePLAN\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#plan\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e install \u003csub\u003eubunto\u003c/sub\u003e Aurora on 500 GB Samsung\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e create zfs dataset for projects /tank/volumes/projects\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e which disk?\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e mount zfs dataset /tank/volumes/projects to /home/nic/projects\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e zfs for home? probably not, keep home on ext4\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e mount old home and sync directly\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erestoring old backups to 2TB disk, will selectively copy things over\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e jetkvm key rotation\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI recovered the old id_rsa one but I\u0026rsquo;m going to simplify my ssh key usage, so sticking with my default key, updated this in the jetkvm /settings/advanced webui\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e restore restic backup to a temp location \u003ccode\u003e/var/docker-storage-zfs/home-restore/\u003c/code\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e figure out what to keep\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e.skm (or consolidate keys)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e???\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e install windsurf in an ubuntu distrobox\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e \u003ccode\u003edistroboc create UbuntuDev --image=ubuntu:22.04\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://windsurf.com/download/editor?os=linux\"\u003ehttps://windsurf.com/download/editor?os=linux\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput checked=\"\" disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e manual install method from distrobox\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"\u003e restore .windsurf? it\u0026rsquo;s super old\u0026hellip;\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"outcome\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOutcome\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#outcome\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is going terribly\u0026hellip; blog post coming on what I should\u0026rsquo;ve done. What\u0026rsquo;s\nactually happening is that I basically just lost everything on that desktop\nexcept my homelab repo thank God\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"plans-to-build\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePlans to build\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#plans-to-build\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003evibe code an observability thing that\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eruns a restore in a container\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erun some \u003ca href=\"/kind/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"kind - kubernetes in docker\" data-hover-title=\"kind\"\u003ekind\u003c/a\u003e of setup in that container at least for my shell and neovim and things\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enetworking for babyblue-aurora -\u0026gt; aurora transition\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elament draft posts that are lost\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003essh keys\u0026hellip; lost .skm directory, look if it\u0026rsquo;s copied anywhere otherwise rotate keys and simplify\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eworkspace backup everynight\u0026hellip; abuse git for this\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eor rsync to external drive, you have zfs on aurora now\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eopencode to address neovim logs\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eswitch to zellij?\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhat would have to translate from tmux? probably quite a few keybindings\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve been drowning in anxiety and depression over tech and AI, work and requirements, and my desktop SSD catastrophically failing while I didn\u0026rsquo;t have an up to date backup\u0026hellip; projects, ssh keys, ideas\u0026hellip; gone. And that\u0026rsquo;s ok, life goes on, so here\u0026rsquo;s my start of a hectic list of what I\u0026rsquo;m doing to setup my desktop again. This will turn into a small post, a sister-post to the one I need to write about how I should\u0026rsquo;ve recovered from my live boot environment\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n## PC Crash\n\nDesktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died.\n\n- live-booted to ubuntu server\n- found restic backup script to NAS\n- edited to be smaller, but did the backup to the NAS\n- rsync'd docker volumes to BX500 SSD which is a zfs pool\n\n- captured what I did on ghost at /home/nic/aurora-recovery-report.md and /home/nic/aurora-crash-disk-health-report.md\n\n### PLAN\n\n- [x] install ~ubunto~ Aurora on 500 GB Samsung\n- [ ] create zfs dataset for projects /tank/volumes/projects\n - [ ] which disk?\n- [ ] mount zfs dataset /tank/volumes/projects to /home/nic/projects\n- [ ] zfs for home? probably not, keep home on ext4\n- [ ] mount old home and sync directly\n - restoring old backups to 2TB disk, will selectively copy things over\n- [x] jetkvm key rotation\n - I recovered the old id_rsa one but I'm going to simplify my ssh key usage, so sticking with my default key, updated this in the jetkvm /settings/advanced webui\n- [x] restore restic backup to a temp location `/var/docker-storage-zfs/home-restore/`\n - [ ] figure out what to keep\n - .skm (or consolidate keys)\n -\n - ???\n- [x] install windsurf in an ubuntu distrobox\n - [x] `distroboc create UbuntuDev --image=ubuntu:22.04`\n - [x] \u003chttps://windsurf.com/download/editor?os=linux\u003e\n - [x] manual install method from distrobox\n - [ ] restore .windsurf? it's super old...\n\n### Outcome\n\nThis is going terribly... blog post coming on what I should've done. What's\nactually happening is that I basically just lost everything on that desktop\nexcept my homelab repo thank God...\n\n## Plans to build\n\n- vibe code an observability thing that\n - runs a restore in a container\n - run some kind of setup in that container at least for my shell and neovim and things\n- networking for babyblue-aurora -\u003e aurora transition\n- lament draft posts that are lost\n- ssh keys... lost .skm directory, look if it's copied anywhere otherwise rotate keys and simplify\n- workspace backup everynight... abuse git for this\n - or rsync to external drive, you have zfs on aurora now\n- opencode to address neovim logs\n- switch to zellij?\n - what would have to translate from tmux? probably quite a few keybindings\n\nI've been drowning in anxiety and depression over tech and AI, work and requirements, and my desktop SSD catastrophically failing while I didn't have an up to date backup... projects, ssh keys, ideas... gone. And that's ok, life goes on, so here's my start of a hectic list of what I'm doing to setup my desktop again. This will turn into a small post, a sister-post to the one I need to write about how I should've recovered from my live boot environment\n", "summary": "Desktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died.", "date_published": "2026-04-22T05:57:40Z", "date_modified": "2026-04-22T05:57:40Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "note" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-1-john-4-17/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-1-john-4-17/", "title": "Advent - 1 John 4:17", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003e1 John 4:17\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, so also are we in this world.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"confidence\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eConfidence\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#confidence\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve definitely written about confidence before outside this blog, it\u0026rsquo;s a key\nChristian theme. John mentions here in the middle of a bunch of stuff about\nlove as he is wrapping up this letter.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove is beautiful, and over this Advent season I\u0026rsquo;ve reflected a lot on verse 19\n\u0026ldquo;We love, because he first loved us\u0026rdquo;. Because of God, his original love for you\nand me, his own power and majesty, his own right to rule and reign - because of\nall of that I am to \u0026ldquo;have confidence in the day of judgement\u0026rdquo;. Christmas isn\u0026rsquo;t\nso much about looking forward to a future time, it\u0026rsquo;s remembering that the time\nwe look forward to is already here in part. Jesus has already come, once. He\nbrought heaven to earth and undid much of the curse of separation placed on\nhumans at Eden. It\u0026rsquo;s because he\u0026rsquo;s already done it, because he loved me first,\nthat confidence can follow. No Christian should find themselves concerned about\ntheir position in front of the Lord any more than my daughter should ever be\nconcerned about her status as my daughter. There\u0026rsquo;s nothing she could do to\nseparate herself from my love for her, and there is nothing I can do to\nseparate myself from God\u0026rsquo;s love. In the binding of that love, is confidence for\nsecurity in the future. Not that all my bills are paid and I have a happy life\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebut that in the ultimate sense, my purpose as an image-bearing Human will be\nfully realized, God\u0026rsquo;s plan fully carried out, in the end. And I don\u0026rsquo;t have to\nworry, because in his love I am secure, just like I hope that in my love my\ndaughters are secure.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristians struggle with doubt, and that\u0026rsquo;s not a sin. John would encourage you\nto take hold of being God\u0026rsquo;s child, live that way, and in living like his child,\nhis love is revealed, and as it is revealed and perfected, confidence naturally\nfollows.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe aren\u0026rsquo;t guaranteed much about life, but I have zero valid reasons to doubt\nthe King who saved me and will continue to save me. May Jesus\u0026rsquo; name be great,\nhe is King, amen.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"1 John 4:17\"\n\n By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, so also are we in this world.\n\n## Confidence\n\nI've definitely written about confidence before outside this blog, it's a key\nChristian theme. John mentions here in the middle of a bunch of stuff about\nlove as he is wrapping up this letter.\n\nLove is beautiful, and over this Advent season I've reflected a lot on verse 19\n\"We love, because he first loved us\". Because of God, his original love for you\nand me, his own power and majesty, his own right to rule and reign - because of\nall of that I am to \"have confidence in the day of judgement\". Christmas isn't\nso much about looking forward to a future time, it's remembering that the time\nwe look forward to is already here in part. Jesus has already come, once. He\nbrought heaven to earth and undid much of the curse of separation placed on\nhumans at Eden. It's because he's already done it, because he loved me first,\nthat confidence can follow. No Christian should find themselves concerned about\ntheir position in front of the Lord any more than my daughter should ever be\nconcerned about her status as my daughter. There's nothing she could do to\nseparate herself from my love for her, and there is nothing I can do to\nseparate myself from God's love. In the binding of that love, is confidence for\nsecurity in the future. Not that all my bills are paid and I have a happy life\n\n- but that in the ultimate sense, my purpose as an image-bearing Human will be\n fully realized, God's plan fully carried out, in the end. And I don't have to\n worry, because in his love I am secure, just like I hope that in my love my\n daughters are secure.\n\nChristians struggle with doubt, and that's not a sin. John would encourage you\nto take hold of being God's child, live that way, and in living like his child,\nhis love is revealed, and as it is revealed and perfected, confidence naturally\nfollows.\n\nWe aren't guaranteed much about life, but I have zero valid reasons to doubt\nthe King who saved me and will continue to save me. May Jesus' name be great,\nhe is King, amen.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"1 John 4:17\"", "date_published": "2025-12-25T05:36:08Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-25T05:36:08Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-luke-6-35/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-luke-6-35/", "title": "Advent - Luke 6:35", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eLuke 6:35\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is \u003ca href=\"/kind/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"kind - kubernetes in docker\" data-hover-title=\"kind\"\u003ekind\u003c/a\u003e to the ungrateful and wicked.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"love-your-enemies\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eLove Your Enemies\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#love-your-enemies\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI was once an enemy of God, and even today still make choices that highlight\nenmity in my heart towards him. It\u0026rsquo;s what\u0026rsquo;s left-over, what will continue to\npersist (though I hope be minimized as much as possible) while waiting for\nHeaven to come to earth. Knowing and recognizing my own position - as a former\nenemy, makes it somewhat easy to read these words to \u0026ldquo;do good\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;expect nothing\nin return\u0026rdquo; from my enemies because God was good to me, and continues to be. So,\nI am the ungrateful and the wicked that he is kind to.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do I feel about that? Honestly, grateful but also a little ashamed. I\n\u003cstrong\u003eknow\u003c/strong\u003e who I am, and sometimes I choose to be who I was before. But God still\nloves me and my heart is glad to be in his favor.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Luke 6:35\"\n\n But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.\n\n## Love Your Enemies\n\nI was once an enemy of God, and even today still make choices that highlight\nenmity in my heart towards him. It's what's left-over, what will continue to\npersist (though I hope be minimized as much as possible) while waiting for\nHeaven to come to earth. Knowing and recognizing my own position - as a former\nenemy, makes it somewhat easy to read these words to \"do good\" and \"expect nothing\nin return\" from my enemies because God was good to me, and continues to be. So,\nI am the ungrateful and the wicked that he is kind to.\n\nHow do I feel about that? Honestly, grateful but also a little ashamed. I\n**know** who I am, and sometimes I choose to be who I was before. But God still\nloves me and my heart is glad to be in his favor.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Luke 6:35\"", "date_published": "2025-12-23T05:17:05Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-23T05:17:05Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-mark-12-29-30/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-mark-12-29-30/", "title": "Advent - Mark 12:29-30", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eMark 12:29-30\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.’\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"the-most-important-commandment\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eThe Most Important Commandment\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#the-most-important-commandment\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eDeuteronomy 6:4-5\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 “Hear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique. 5 And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJesus quotes the Shema as the most important commandment - not really\nsurprising\u0026hellip; Yahweh\u0026rsquo;s authority and divine kingship is the most important\nreality to affirm. Along with recognizing the authority and Oneness of Yahweh\nis the command the love him. ie. Not loving him is \u003cstrong\u003enot\u003c/strong\u003e recognizing his\nauthority\u0026hellip; Again, not a surprising thing to hear a king say.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo he says the most important thing is to love Yahweh Elohim (the Lord your\nGod) with everything. This calls Paul\u0026rsquo;s words about transformation to mind -\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eRomans 12:1-2\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTherefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul says that to offer ourselves as a \u003cstrong\u003eliving sacraifice\u003c/strong\u003e (strong language, no?)\nis our \u003cstrong\u003ereasonable service\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026hellip; If we think about Jesus\u0026rsquo; words that the \u003cstrong\u003emost\nimportant commandment\u003c/strong\u003e is to love God with everything, then Paul\u0026rsquo;s words here\nin Romans are honestly just a natural outpouring of that priority - that we are\nto offer \u003cstrong\u003eeverything\u003c/strong\u003e back to him.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne lens through which to view this is simply gratitude\u0026hellip; If you are given\neverything by someone, of course you\u0026rsquo;d seek to show your thanks. Part of the\nhuman experience for the Christian, I think anyways, is the maturing and\nrealization of \u003cstrong\u003ehow much\u003c/strong\u003e God has given, and how much he has saved me from. This\nmaturity leads me to love God more deeply\u0026hellip; It\u0026rsquo;s as if my perspective on what\nhe\u0026rsquo;s done for me grows, so too my love for him grows.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition success\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eSuccess\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u0026ldquo;everything\u0026rdquo; I have to offer increases as I become more aware of everything he\u0026rsquo;s given.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise God for the mercies on my life, the greatest of which is the freedom to\noffer myself to him. In the bonds of sin and shame I\u0026rsquo;m not free to crawl up\nonto the altar as a living sacrifice. But God, in his grace, brought me to\nlife. He animated my body, makes it sacred space, and in the life-giving power\nof Jesus\u0026rsquo; resurrection and the Holy Spirit I should walk myself to the altar\nand lay myself down. The most important command for me is to love him with\neverything, and praise the Lord I am free to do so.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Mark 12:29-30\"\n\n 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.’\n\n## The Most Important Commandment\n\n!!! note \"Deuteronomy 6:4-5\"\n\n 4 “Hear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique. 5 And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.\n\nJesus quotes the Shema as the most important commandment - not really\nsurprising... Yahweh's authority and divine kingship is the most important\nreality to affirm. Along with recognizing the authority and Oneness of Yahweh\nis the command the love him. ie. Not loving him is **not** recognizing his\nauthority... Again, not a surprising thing to hear a king say.\n\nSo he says the most important thing is to love Yahweh Elohim (the Lord your\nGod) with everything. This calls Paul's words about transformation to mind -\n\n!!! note \"Romans 12:1-2\"\n\n Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.\n\nPaul says that to offer ourselves as a **living sacraifice** (strong language, no?)\nis our **reasonable service**... If we think about Jesus' words that the **most\nimportant commandment** is to love God with everything, then Paul's words here\nin Romans are honestly just a natural outpouring of that priority - that we are\nto offer **everything** back to him.\n\nOne lens through which to view this is simply gratitude... If you are given\neverything by someone, of course you'd seek to show your thanks. Part of the\nhuman experience for the Christian, I think anyways, is the maturing and\nrealization of **how much** God has given, and how much he has saved me from. This\nmaturity leads me to love God more deeply... It's as if my perspective on what\nhe's done for me grows, so too my love for him grows.\n\n!!! success \"\"\n\n The \"everything\" I have to offer increases as I become more aware of everything he's given.\n\nPraise God for the mercies on my life, the greatest of which is the freedom to\noffer myself to him. In the bonds of sin and shame I'm not free to crawl up\nonto the altar as a living sacrifice. But God, in his grace, brought me to\nlife. He animated my body, makes it sacred space, and in the life-giving power\nof Jesus' resurrection and the Holy Spirit I should walk myself to the altar\nand lay myself down. The most important command for me is to love him with\neverything, and praise the Lord I am free to do so.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Mark 12:29-30\"", "date_published": "2025-12-21T05:41:55Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-21T05:41:55Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-15-13/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-15-13/", "title": "Advent - Romans 15:13", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eRomans 15:13\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last 3 weeks of Advent are summarized right here in verse 13. Yahweh is the\nGod of hope, of expectation, he brings Joy through redemption, and Peace to the\nbeliever through faith. That Joy and Peace lead us to \u0026ldquo;abound in hope\u0026rdquo;\nourselves, by the power of the Holy Spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat a dense sentence\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe last several days and months have been heavy, and praise God for Christmas\nand Advent right now, which is daily reorienting my eyes to Jesus. I\u0026rsquo;m waking\nup everyday thinking about work, the next thing to do, my next project,\nretirement, why am I so sweaty in the morning?\u0026hellip; But after a few deep breaths,\neventually making my way to my desk with a cup of coffee and a sense of\ndirection to start my day, I\u0026rsquo;ve been sitting down and reflecting not just on\nsome random passage from a devotional, but through this Advent season\nregularly, daily, reflecting on the core themes. By God\u0026rsquo;s grace this has been a\ngreat gift to me, and without this daily (or mostly daily) reorientation, I am\nsure the stress I do still feel would be multiplied by orders of magnitude.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe light the Love candle tomorrow, but today is good for me to wrap up the last\n3 weeks with this simple verse. I know God loves me, this next week of\nreflection I look forward to what he shares with me. And today the Word of God\nreminds me that hope, joy, and peace are apart of God\u0026rsquo;s design for our lives.\nThose things are found and fulfilled in the Person and Work of Jesus. He then\nleft us the helper, the Holy Spirit, to carry us forward while we wait for his\nreturn. Today, it\u0026rsquo;s in the Spirit\u0026rsquo;s power that God\u0026rsquo;s hope may overflow our\nhearts, and if we\u0026hellip; if I am overflowing with hope and love and peace in Jesus,\nthen I sure hope more that the \u0026ldquo;Christmas Cheer\u0026rdquo; God gives to me does a\npartnering work in bringing Heaven to earth while we expectantly wait for the\nreturn of the King.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Romans 15:13\"\n\n Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\n\nThe last 3 weeks of Advent are summarized right here in verse 13. Yahweh is the\nGod of hope, of expectation, he brings Joy through redemption, and Peace to the\nbeliever through faith. That Joy and Peace lead us to \"abound in hope\"\nourselves, by the power of the Holy Spirit.\n\nWhat a dense sentence...\n\nThe last several days and months have been heavy, and praise God for Christmas\nand Advent right now, which is daily reorienting my eyes to Jesus. I'm waking\nup everyday thinking about work, the next thing to do, my next project,\nretirement, why am I so sweaty in the morning?... But after a few deep breaths,\neventually making my way to my desk with a cup of coffee and a sense of\ndirection to start my day, I've been sitting down and reflecting not just on\nsome random passage from a devotional, but through this Advent season\nregularly, daily, reflecting on the core themes. By God's grace this has been a\ngreat gift to me, and without this daily (or mostly daily) reorientation, I am\nsure the stress I do still feel would be multiplied by orders of magnitude.\n\nWe light the Love candle tomorrow, but today is good for me to wrap up the last\n3 weeks with this simple verse. I know God loves me, this next week of\nreflection I look forward to what he shares with me. And today the Word of God\nreminds me that hope, joy, and peace are apart of God's design for our lives.\nThose things are found and fulfilled in the Person and Work of Jesus. He then\nleft us the helper, the Holy Spirit, to carry us forward while we wait for his\nreturn. Today, it's in the Spirit's power that God's hope may overflow our\nhearts, and if we... if I am overflowing with hope and love and peace in Jesus,\nthen I sure hope more that the \"Christmas Cheer\" God gives to me does a\npartnering work in bringing Heaven to earth while we expectantly wait for the\nreturn of the King.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Romans 15:13\"", "date_published": "2025-12-20T05:36:26Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-20T05:36:26Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-matthew-5-11-12/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-matthew-5-11-12/", "title": "Advent - Matthew 5:11-12", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eMatthew 5:11-12\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"context\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eContext\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#context\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo drop some context that I\u0026rsquo;m familiar with, this is from a famous section of\nJesus\u0026rsquo; \u0026ldquo;Sermon on the Mount\u0026rdquo; called \u0026ldquo;The Beatitudes\u0026rdquo;. A little unknown fact in\na lot of Christian circles is that these phrases from Matthew 5:3-12 are\nderived from some ancient Jewish wisdom (esus didn\u0026rsquo;t come up with these on the\nfly). Most of these saying come from something called \u0026ldquo;The Book of Wisdom\u0026rdquo;\nand they had a history of being used as a way of defining who was close to God\nand who wasn\u0026rsquo;t. Jesus takes the ancient and perverted pseudo-wisdom here and\nturns it on its head. He\u0026rsquo;s not giving instructions, he\u0026rsquo;s giving correction to\npeople who have been abused by civic and religious powers at be.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"reflection\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eReflection\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#reflection\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo I know Jesus is not saying I should go out and pursue persecution and\nslander. Nor is he saying that just because someone might be mean to me for my\nfaith, that I\u0026rsquo;m practicing my faith in an appropriate way.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut what Jesus is doing is acknowledging that the world fundamentally does\nreject him. Ultimately, at a level more foundational than the atoms that make\nup the universe, creation is broken right now. It\u0026rsquo;s being redeemed, but it\u0026rsquo;s\nalso broken. In its broken state, like a body that is sick, it might reject\nthings that are good for it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumans are apart of creation, humans are apart of what is broken, and humans,\nin our brokenness, reject ultimate goodness by our very broken nature. Jesus\nsays that when the world persecutes us because of him, it\u0026rsquo;s a simple truth made\nmanifest\u0026hellip; The broken world continues to reject Jesus, and as you or I are\nbrought further into the fold of God\u0026rsquo;s family, then those outside, those still under\nthe crushing, oppressive thumb of sin and death, can not\nhelp but carry out their natural inclination against that which is good. It is\nquite literally only natural.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo should I find myself offended when someone naturally rejects me on account\nof Jesus\u0026rsquo; presence in my life? I think I should instead almost pity them, and\npray that Jesus calls their name too.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Matthew 5:11-12\"\n\n 11 Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.\n\n## Context\n\nTo drop some context that I'm familiar with, this is from a famous section of\nJesus' \"Sermon on the Mount\" called \"The Beatitudes\". A little unknown fact in\na lot of Christian circles is that these phrases from Matthew 5:3-12 are\nderived from some ancient Jewish wisdom (esus didn't come up with these on the\nfly). Most of these saying come from something called \"The Book of Wisdom\"\nand they had a history of being used as a way of defining who was close to God\nand who wasn't. Jesus takes the ancient and perverted pseudo-wisdom here and\nturns it on its head. He's not giving instructions, he's giving correction to\npeople who have been abused by civic and religious powers at be.\n\n## Reflection\n\nSo I know Jesus is not saying I should go out and pursue persecution and\nslander. Nor is he saying that just because someone might be mean to me for my\nfaith, that I'm practicing my faith in an appropriate way.\n\nBut what Jesus is doing is acknowledging that the world fundamentally does\nreject him. Ultimately, at a level more foundational than the atoms that make\nup the universe, creation is broken right now. It's being redeemed, but it's\nalso broken. In its broken state, like a body that is sick, it might reject\nthings that are good for it.\n\nHumans are apart of creation, humans are apart of what is broken, and humans,\nin our brokenness, reject ultimate goodness by our very broken nature. Jesus\nsays that when the world persecutes us because of him, it's a simple truth made\nmanifest... The broken world continues to reject Jesus, and as you or I are\nbrought further into the fold of God's family, then those outside, those still under\nthe crushing, oppressive thumb of sin and death, can not\nhelp but carry out their natural inclination against that which is good. It is\nquite literally only natural.\n\nSo should I find myself offended when someone naturally rejects me on account\nof Jesus' presence in my life? I think I should instead almost pity them, and\npray that Jesus calls their name too.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Matthew 5:11-12\"", "date_published": "2025-12-18T05:08:56Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-18T05:08:56Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-john-15-10-11/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-john-15-10-11/", "title": "Advent - John 15:10-11", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eJohn 15:10-11\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a beautiful couple verses about love that have only made more and more\nsense to me as I get older and I have become a dad.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommandments are not necessarily about \u003cem\u003econtrol\u003c/em\u003e. I see this illogical line of thinking\nEVERYWHERE - that advocating for rules and boundaries in life can quickly get\nconflated with \u0026ldquo;you want to control me/them!\u0026rdquo;. I think the general population really\nfails to understand that the lack of boundaries doesn\u0026rsquo;t make you free, it turns\nyou into a slave of your most powerful desire. It is literally in the human-nature.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRandom boundaries though are not helpful or loving\u0026hellip; Restriction without\npurpose, or for \u003cem\u003ethe wrong\u003c/em\u003e reason, can put you into a situation you weren\u0026rsquo;t\ndesigned to be in. I believe humans were created according to a design, and\nlike anything else with a purpose there are appropriate ways and places to\nlive, be, act, etc. as well as inappropriate ways and places. The\nappropriatedness can only be determined by the one who knows the design\nthough\u0026hellip;. otherwise someone is just guessing what the purposeful boundary or\nrestriction is.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the case of our own reality, the architect of the universe is Jesus himself,\nand in his divine knowledge of all of Creation he gives commandments\n(boundaries and regulations) that are in \u003cstrong\u003eperfect alignment with our design\nand purpose\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom here it sounds so simple\u0026hellip; The commandments from the Lord come from an\nunderstanding of what is \u003cstrong\u003eactually best for the human life\u003c/strong\u003e. Because Jesus\n\u003cstrong\u003eactually knows better than you or me\u003c/strong\u003e when we are in line with his\ncommandments, when we \u0026ldquo;remain in [his] love\u0026rdquo;, we are more in-line with our\ncreated purpose than when we think we know better for ourselves. It\u0026rsquo;s\npractically a law of nature that things work best when used for their created\npurpose, and in the human-design I think it\u0026rsquo;s no different. Jesus offers the\nframework for the fulfilled human life - it\u0026rsquo;s not attainable without the\nfreedom to love him, but for the chosen - his joy follows love and freedom.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition danger\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eFor who?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe life of freedom is only fully possible for whoever Jesus picks. Without\nhim awakening your heart to love what is truely lovely and hate what is truely\ndespicable then you\u0026rsquo;ll never want anything that he offers. The\nunderstanding of \u0026ldquo;his way is better\u0026rdquo; is only possible in the mind and heart of\nthe person whom Jesus raises to life out of the chaotic ocean of death.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday God gives me the freedom to keep his commandments. I\u0026rsquo;ll make my choice\nmoment by moment and pray continuously that he sustains my trust in him - to\nignore my dead-self\u0026rsquo;s desires and instead to keep the commandments of the Lord\nso that my joy may be made complete\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"John 15:10-11\"\n\n 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.\n\nThis is a beautiful couple verses about love that have only made more and more\nsense to me as I get older and I have become a dad.\n\nCommandments are not necessarily about _control_. I see this illogical line of thinking\nEVERYWHERE - that advocating for rules and boundaries in life can quickly get\nconflated with \"you want to control me/them!\". I think the general population really\nfails to understand that the lack of boundaries doesn't make you free, it turns\nyou into a slave of your most powerful desire. It is literally in the human-nature.\n\nRandom boundaries though are not helpful or loving... Restriction without\npurpose, or for _the wrong_ reason, can put you into a situation you weren't\ndesigned to be in. I believe humans were created according to a design, and\nlike anything else with a purpose there are appropriate ways and places to\nlive, be, act, etc. as well as inappropriate ways and places. The\nappropriatedness can only be determined by the one who knows the design\nthough.... otherwise someone is just guessing what the purposeful boundary or\nrestriction is.\n\nIn the case of our own reality, the architect of the universe is Jesus himself,\nand in his divine knowledge of all of Creation he gives commandments\n(boundaries and regulations) that are in **perfect alignment with our design\nand purpose**\n\nFrom here it sounds so simple... The commandments from the Lord come from an\nunderstanding of what is **actually best for the human life**. Because Jesus\n**actually knows better than you or me** when we are in line with his\ncommandments, when we \"remain in [his] love\", we are more in-line with our\ncreated purpose than when we think we know better for ourselves. It's\npractically a law of nature that things work best when used for their created\npurpose, and in the human-design I think it's no different. Jesus offers the\nframework for the fulfilled human life - it's not attainable without the\nfreedom to love him, but for the chosen - his joy follows love and freedom.\n\n!!! danger \"For who?\"\n\n The life of freedom is only fully possible for whoever Jesus picks. Without\n him awakening your heart to love what is truely lovely and hate what is truely\n despicable then you'll never want anything that he offers. The\n understanding of \"his way is better\" is only possible in the mind and heart of\n the person whom Jesus raises to life out of the chaotic ocean of death.\n\nToday God gives me the freedom to keep his commandments. I'll make my choice\nmoment by moment and pray continuously that he sustains my trust in him - to\nignore my dead-self's desires and instead to keep the commandments of the Lord\nso that my joy may be made complete\n", "summary": "!!! note \"John 15:10-11\"", "date_published": "2025-12-17T05:39:34Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-17T05:39:34Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-luke-2-10-11/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-luke-2-10-11/", "title": "Advent - Luke 2:10-11", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eLuke 2:10-11\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring good news to you of great joy which will be for all the people: 11 that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Luke 2:10-11\"\n\n 10 And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring good news to you of great joy which will be for all the people: 11 that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Luke 2:10-11\"", "date_published": "2025-12-16T04:55:33Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-16T04:55:33Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-51-3/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-51-3/", "title": "Advent - Isaiah 51:3", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eIsaiah 51:1-3\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to\nthe rock from which you were hewn, and to the excavation of the pit from which\nyou were quarried.\n2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought\nyou forth. For I called him alone, but I blessed him and made him numerous.”\n3 For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And\nhe will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of\nYahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of\nsong.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"joy-in-the-father\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eJoy in the Father\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#joy-in-the-father\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of yesterday, I\u0026rsquo;m still struggling with Joy, but here in Isaiah\nsome context aligns Joy with Gladness (which feels very much in-line with my\nassociation of Gratitude with Happiness).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo where will joy and gladness be found? It sounds to me like \u0026ldquo;Zion\u0026rdquo;. Zion is\nthe Mountain of God. In the ANE gods lived on high mountain tops with lush\ngardens. Think of the cartoon example of Hercules with the pantheon up on\nOlympus.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZion is also the people of God - even today we sometimes use national or ethnic\ntitles to refer to the people of that area. National leaders may address the\ncitizens of America by saying \u0026ldquo;Listen to me, America\u0026rdquo; or something like that -\nI think my point is that we\u0026rsquo;d all \u0026ldquo;get it\u0026rdquo; in that moment. In a similar way,\nthat communication shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be lost on us here.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe prophet is speaking to \u0026ldquo;you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh\u0026hellip;\nYahweh will comfort Zion (you)\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;. In that comfort is 2 things from this\npassage: Election and Legacy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eElection\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Look to the rock from which you were hewn\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;. Does the rock decide which\npieces are chiseled away and which pieces remain? Of course not, the sculptor\nor foreman does that. In, honestly, the same way - who am I to have chosen God\non my own\u0026hellip; Without his hand coming to the rock to separate me (any anyone\nelse in the Lord) I would forever remain stagnant in my cold, hard, dead state.\nBut Yahweh chooses - and what can follow his choice to hewn me from the rock?\nWhy, it\u0026rsquo;s nothing but Joy and Gladness!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eLegacy\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth\u0026rdquo;. God\u0026rsquo;s\npeople have a long legacy, a real legacy, to look back on and be encouraged by\nGod\u0026rsquo;s faithfulness in his election. The legacy isn\u0026rsquo;t just back to \u0026ldquo;Father\nAbraham\u0026rdquo;, my mind goes to my own life and now that I have some years under my\nbelt I can look back and see time and time again where God showed his love for\nme in extraordinary ways. I do hope it isn\u0026rsquo;t the physical blessings that he\ngives that bring me joy, but rather that it is the unending history of\nfaithfulness to me as his child.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoy is found in Zion because it is where Yahweh lives, and joy and gladness are\nfound in fullness in him alone. His comfort today is realized in his word and\nlegacy of faithfulness, and his comfort tomorrow will be realized by Jesus'\nreturn and the consummation of the Kingdom of God.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWork is hard, life is unfair, sickness will continue but at the appointed time,\nwhen Yahweh \u0026ldquo;make[s] [Zion\u0026rsquo;s] wilderness like Eden\u0026rdquo; there will be joy,\ngladness, thanksgiving, and the sound of song.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Isaiah 51:1-3\"\n\n 1 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to\n the rock from which you were hewn, and to the excavation of the pit from which\n you were quarried.\n 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought\n you forth. For I called him alone, but I blessed him and made him numerous.”\n 3 For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And\n he will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of\n Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of\n song.\n\n## Joy in the Father\n\nOn the heels of yesterday, I'm still struggling with Joy, but here in Isaiah\nsome context aligns Joy with Gladness (which feels very much in-line with my\nassociation of Gratitude with Happiness).\n\nSo where will joy and gladness be found? It sounds to me like \"Zion\". Zion is\nthe Mountain of God. In the ANE gods lived on high mountain tops with lush\ngardens. Think of the cartoon example of Hercules with the pantheon up on\nOlympus.\n\nZion is also the people of God - even today we sometimes use national or ethnic\ntitles to refer to the people of that area. National leaders may address the\ncitizens of America by saying \"Listen to me, America\" or something like that -\nI think my point is that we'd all \"get it\" in that moment. In a similar way,\nthat communication shouldn't be lost on us here.\n\nThe prophet is speaking to \"you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh...\nYahweh will comfort Zion (you)...\". In that comfort is 2 things from this\npassage: Election and Legacy.\n\n!!! note \"Election\"\n\n \"Look to the rock from which you were hewn...\". Does the rock decide which\n pieces are chiseled away and which pieces remain? Of course not, the sculptor\n or foreman does that. In, honestly, the same way - who am I to have chosen God\n on my own... Without his hand coming to the rock to separate me (any anyone\n else in the Lord) I would forever remain stagnant in my cold, hard, dead state.\n But Yahweh chooses - and what can follow his choice to hewn me from the rock?\n Why, it's nothing but Joy and Gladness!\n\n!!! note \"Legacy\"\n\n \"Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth\". God's\n people have a long legacy, a real legacy, to look back on and be encouraged by\n God's faithfulness in his election. The legacy isn't just back to \"Father\n Abraham\", my mind goes to my own life and now that I have some years under my\n belt I can look back and see time and time again where God showed his love for\n me in extraordinary ways. I do hope it isn't the physical blessings that he\n gives that bring me joy, but rather that it is the unending history of\n faithfulness to me as his child.\n\nJoy is found in Zion because it is where Yahweh lives, and joy and gladness are\nfound in fullness in him alone. His comfort today is realized in his word and\nlegacy of faithfulness, and his comfort tomorrow will be realized by Jesus'\nreturn and the consummation of the Kingdom of God.\n\nWork is hard, life is unfair, sickness will continue but at the appointed time,\nwhen Yahweh \"make[s] [Zion's] wilderness like Eden\" there will be joy,\ngladness, thanksgiving, and the sound of song.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Isaiah 51:1-3\"", "date_published": "2025-12-15T05:40:47Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-15T05:40:47Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-psalm-105-43/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-psalm-105-43/", "title": "Advent - Psalm 105:43", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003ePsalm 105:43\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoy is a toughy right now if I\u0026rsquo;m honest\u0026hellip; Today marks the 3rd week of Advent,\ntoday we light the Joy candle. But honestly, joy is one that\u0026rsquo;s not just tough\nnow, it\u0026rsquo;s a hard thing for me in general\u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;Hope\u0026rdquo; I feel like I get, I long for\nthe consummation of Heaven. \u0026ldquo;Peace\u0026rdquo; is another one that I can\u0026rsquo;t say I experience\nall the time, but I know what it is, and I have felt, and do feel, \u0026ldquo;peace\u0026rdquo; to\ndivine degrees at times. Joy though\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m an excitable person, I\u0026rsquo;m passionate\nabout the things I\u0026rsquo;m passionate about, but \u0026ldquo;joy\u0026rdquo; isn\u0026rsquo;t an emotion or\nstate-of-being that I feel very familiar with.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s probably not correct to use the word \u0026ldquo;emotion\u0026rdquo; for the Advent-pillar of\n\u003ccode\u003eJoy\u003c/code\u003e, but it doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel wholly inappropriate either\u0026hellip; I think of \u0026lsquo;joy\u0026rsquo; as\nan outward response to a thing, and if I were to be pressed to think about what\n\u0026ldquo;inward-joy\u0026rdquo; might be, I think I\u0026rsquo;d default to how I understand \u0026ldquo;peace\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoy, though, can\u0026rsquo;t only be outward, there must be something internal\u0026hellip; \u0026ldquo;Peace\u0026rdquo;\nreminds me of feelings like calm and serenity to me, but \u0026ldquo;joy\u0026rdquo; reminds me of\nfeelings of happiness and gratitude\u0026hellip; Maybe that\u0026rsquo;s where joy becomes almost a\nvirtue - happiness accompanied with gratitude.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI suppose with that springboard, I feel great joy when I\u0026rsquo;m with close friends,\nexperiencing community with people who really know me. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what it\nsays about me that the most recent time of excessive \u0026ldquo;joy\u0026rdquo; I can remember was\nfrom a weekend-getaway trip to the Dells with our best friends back in\nJanuary\u0026hellip; We don\u0026rsquo;t get to see Michael and Kathryn (+ the kiddos!) very often.\nBy God\u0026rsquo;s grace on their lives, we are 1 of many close family-friends to\nthem. By God\u0026rsquo;s same grace on our lives, they are 1 of a \u003cstrong\u003every few\u003c/strong\u003e close\nfamily-friends to us, and so when we do get to see them and plan a few days\ntogether every couple of years, it warms my heart so much that if we booked the\nnext trip this morning I\u0026rsquo;d forget about being sick and how cold it is outside\n(wind chill -29F).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThings for me right this very second are not incredibly joyful, but all things\nconsidered it\u0026rsquo;s impossible to not find peace in the provision of Yahweh in my\nlife. I\u0026rsquo;m thankful for when joy enters my being and I get to experience it, I\npray Jesus broadens my heart and mind this week during the reflections on Joy\nfor the sake my own righteousness.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Psalm 105:43\"\n\n And so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.\n\nJoy is a toughy right now if I'm honest... Today marks the 3rd week of Advent,\ntoday we light the Joy candle. But honestly, joy is one that's not just tough\nnow, it's a hard thing for me in general... \"Hope\" I feel like I get, I long for\nthe consummation of Heaven. \"Peace\" is another one that I can't say I experience\nall the time, but I know what it is, and I have felt, and do feel, \"peace\" to\ndivine degrees at times. Joy though... I'm an excitable person, I'm passionate\nabout the things I'm passionate about, but \"joy\" isn't an emotion or\nstate-of-being that I feel very familiar with.\n\nIt's probably not correct to use the word \"emotion\" for the Advent-pillar of\n`Joy`, but it doesn't feel wholly inappropriate either... I think of 'joy' as\nan outward response to a thing, and if I were to be pressed to think about what\n\"inward-joy\" might be, I think I'd default to how I understand \"peace\".\n\nJoy, though, can't only be outward, there must be something internal... \"Peace\"\nreminds me of feelings like calm and serenity to me, but \"joy\" reminds me of\nfeelings of happiness and gratitude... Maybe that's where joy becomes almost a\nvirtue - happiness accompanied with gratitude.\n\nI suppose with that springboard, I feel great joy when I'm with close friends,\nexperiencing community with people who really know me. I don't know what it\nsays about me that the most recent time of excessive \"joy\" I can remember was\nfrom a weekend-getaway trip to the Dells with our best friends back in\nJanuary... We don't get to see Michael and Kathryn (+ the kiddos!) very often.\nBy God's grace on their lives, we are 1 of many close family-friends to\nthem. By God's same grace on our lives, they are 1 of a **very few** close\nfamily-friends to us, and so when we do get to see them and plan a few days\ntogether every couple of years, it warms my heart so much that if we booked the\nnext trip this morning I'd forget about being sick and how cold it is outside\n(wind chill -29F).\n\nThings for me right this very second are not incredibly joyful, but all things\nconsidered it's impossible to not find peace in the provision of Yahweh in my\nlife. I'm thankful for when joy enters my being and I get to experience it, I\npray Jesus broadens my heart and mind this week during the reflections on Joy\nfor the sake my own righteousness.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Psalm 105:43\"", "date_published": "2025-12-14T09:48:03Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-14T09:48:03Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-ephesians-4-3/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-ephesians-4-3/", "title": "Advent - Ephesians 4:3", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eEphesians 4:1-6\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner\nworthy of the calling with which you were called: 2 with all humility and\ngentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, 3 being eager\nto keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; 4 one body and one Spirit\n(just as also you were called with one hope of your calling), 5 one Lord, one\nfaith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through\nall, and in all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"unity-and-peace\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eUnity and Peace\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#unity-and-peace\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce again I say \u0026ldquo;Praise God\u0026rdquo; this morning for more words of Scripture that\nsuccinctly highlight the beauty of the Gospel.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;I, the prisoner in the Lord\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; No one knows better than Paul that if Jesus\nsays \u0026ldquo;Come to me\u0026rdquo; you have no choice but to obey.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;with humility, gentleness, and patience put up with one another in love, be\neager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace\u0026rdquo;. Christian\ncommunity was literally the talk of the town in the early church - it was so\nodd that historians have written about \u0026ldquo;The Way\u0026rdquo; (the early early name of the\nChristian movement). Acts says believers \u0026ldquo;had all things in common\u0026rdquo;. Jesus\nbrings unity that transcends any differences between us.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;one\u0026hellip;one\u0026hellip;one\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; Paul is saying so clearly that we are one family in\nChrista. Later in the same letter he says \u0026ldquo;be eager to do good to all, and\nespecially to those in the household of faith\u0026rdquo;. Christians should be meeting\nthe needs of those around them, but even more so meeting the needs of our\nbrothers and sisters in Christ.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really strive for unity\u0026hellip; My whole life people have accused me of loving an\nargument (which is true) but I am not pugnacious. I do not enjoy fighting - I\ndo enjoy rhetoric and debate, but by God\u0026rsquo;s grace I hate division. There are\nseveral examples I can point to in my life where unity and \u0026ldquo;team spirit\u0026rdquo; was\nimportant to me.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eSimple Example\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI worked for Summit Ministries for several summers, eventually serving on\nsome leadership positions. While in those positions I wanted to do \u0026ldquo;extra\u0026rdquo;\nthings to unify our counselors, and one was that every year I\u0026rsquo;d design a\nsweatshirt that we\u0026rsquo;d all (or most of us) would buy. I just love the idea of\nbeing united for a common and GOOD goal.o\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristians should be the most unified and loving people on the planet\u0026hellip;\nunfortunately that isn\u0026rsquo;t the case, and I know a lot of people in and out of the\nChurch who have experienced great disunity and division. That really is\nunfortunate, but I think the only thing I can do is march forward to the beat\nof the drum Jesus has for me. And one of those beats is to strive for unity\n\u0026ldquo;putting up with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the\nSpirit in the bond of peace\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Ephesians 4:1-6\"\n\n 4Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner\n worthy of the calling with which you were called: 2 with all humility and\n gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, 3 being eager\n to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; 4 one body and one Spirit\n (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling), 5 one Lord, one\n faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through\n all, and in all.\n\n## Unity and Peace\n\nOnce again I say \"Praise God\" this morning for more words of Scripture that\nsuccinctly highlight the beauty of the Gospel.\n\n1. \"I, the prisoner in the Lord...\" No one knows better than Paul that if Jesus\n says \"Come to me\" you have no choice but to obey.\n2. \"with humility, gentleness, and patience put up with one another in love, be\n eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace\". Christian\n community was literally the talk of the town in the early church - it was so\n odd that historians have written about \"The Way\" (the early early name of the\n Christian movement). Acts says believers \"had all things in common\". Jesus\n brings unity that transcends any differences between us.\n3. \"one...one...one...\" Paul is saying so clearly that we are one family in\n Christa. Later in the same letter he says \"be eager to do good to all, and\n especially to those in the household of faith\". Christians should be meeting\n the needs of those around them, but even more so meeting the needs of our\n brothers and sisters in Christ.\n\nI really strive for unity... My whole life people have accused me of loving an\nargument (which is true) but I am not pugnacious. I do not enjoy fighting - I\ndo enjoy rhetoric and debate, but by God's grace I hate division. There are\nseveral examples I can point to in my life where unity and \"team spirit\" was\nimportant to me.\n\n!!! note \"Simple Example\"\n\n I worked for Summit Ministries for several summers, eventually serving on\n some leadership positions. While in those positions I wanted to do \"extra\"\n things to unify our counselors, and one was that every year I'd design a\n sweatshirt that we'd all (or most of us) would buy. I just love the idea of\n being united for a common and GOOD goal.o\n\nChristians should be the most unified and loving people on the planet...\nunfortunately that isn't the case, and I know a lot of people in and out of the\nChurch who have experienced great disunity and division. That really is\nunfortunate, but I think the only thing I can do is march forward to the beat\nof the drum Jesus has for me. And one of those beats is to strive for unity\n\"putting up with one another in love, being eager to keep the unity of the\nSpirit in the bond of peace\"\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Ephesians 4:1-6\"", "date_published": "2025-12-13T05:05:56Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-13T05:05:56Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-ephesians-2-14-16/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-ephesians-2-14-16/", "title": "Advent - Ephesians 2:14-16", "content_html": "\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reflection in the BP calendar for today was only verses 14-15 but they made no sense to me without some more context\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eEphesians 2:11-22\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the\nso-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by\nhands, 12 that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the\ncitizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having\nhope, and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones\nwho once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he\nhimself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the\npartition, the enmity, in his flesh, 15 invalidating the law of commandments in\nordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man,\nthus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the\ncross, killing the enmity in himself. 17 And coming, he proclaimed the good\nnews of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near,\n18 because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.\n19 Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you\nare fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built\non the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the\ncornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, joined together, grows into a holy\ntemple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling\nplace of God in the Spirit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"summary\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSummary\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#summary\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s a dense section, like a lot of Paul\u0026rsquo;s letters, so no surprise. I think the\nsimplest truth from this passage is that to be a \u0026ldquo;citizen of heaven\u0026rdquo; requires\nnothing more than to be chosen by Jesus. For much of the Bible, and the history\nof Israel, the first requirement was being in the physical nation of Israel -\nGod\u0026rsquo;s chosen people. Jesus comes to unleash the blessing of adoption and\nreconiciliiation onto the whole world, not just one imperfect white-washed\nnation.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: Jesus brings peace through unity of faith in his saving power - there is\nnothing that can separate God\u0026rsquo;s own from himself, including who your ancestors\nare.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"peace\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePeace\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#peace\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;For he himself is our peace\u0026rdquo;\u0026hellip; Amen and amen. My reflections during and prior\nto Advent this year have strong running themes of freedom and peace because by\nGod\u0026rsquo;s grace he\u0026rsquo;s impressing these blessings into my heart. In the stillness of\nthe morning or the chaos of the afternoon, I can thankfully say that the name\nof Jesus never fails to ground my feet in the reality of his kingdom, and at the\nvery least - draw my eyes above the trial to the horizon - where just like I\ncan see nothing without the sun\u0026rsquo;s light, the world is clearer and more peaceful\nin the light of the Son of God.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n\u003e The reflection in the BP calendar for today was only verses 14-15 but they made no sense to me without some more context\n\n!!! note \"Ephesians 2:11-22\"\n\n 11 Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the\n so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by\n hands, 12 that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the\n citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having\n hope, and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones\n who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he\n himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the\n partition, the enmity, in his flesh, 15 invalidating the law of commandments in\n ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man,\n thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both in one body to God through the\n cross, killing the enmity in himself. 17 And coming, he proclaimed the good\n news of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near,\n 18 because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.\n 19 Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you\n are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built\n on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the\n cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, joined together, grows into a holy\n temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling\n place of God in the Spirit.\n\n## Summary\n\nIt's a dense section, like a lot of Paul's letters, so no surprise. I think the\nsimplest truth from this passage is that to be a \"citizen of heaven\" requires\nnothing more than to be chosen by Jesus. For much of the Bible, and the history\nof Israel, the first requirement was being in the physical nation of Israel -\nGod's chosen people. Jesus comes to unleash the blessing of adoption and\nreconiciliiation onto the whole world, not just one imperfect white-washed\nnation.\n\nTLDR: Jesus brings peace through unity of faith in his saving power - there is\nnothing that can separate God's own from himself, including who your ancestors\nare.\n\n## Peace\n\n\"For he himself is our peace\"... Amen and amen. My reflections during and prior\nto Advent this year have strong running themes of freedom and peace because by\nGod's grace he's impressing these blessings into my heart. In the stillness of\nthe morning or the chaos of the afternoon, I can thankfully say that the name\nof Jesus never fails to ground my feet in the reality of his kingdom, and at the\nvery least - draw my eyes above the trial to the horizon - where just like I\ncan see nothing without the sun's light, the world is clearer and more peaceful\nin the light of the Son of God.\n", "summary": "The reflection in the BP calendar for today was only verses 14-15 but they made no sense to me without some more context", "date_published": "2025-12-12T04:57:12Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-12T04:57:12Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-colossians-1-19-20/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-colossians-1-19-20/", "title": "Advent - Colossians 1:19-20", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eColossians 1:19-20\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI feel like there\u0026rsquo;s so much that could be unpacked here\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;all his fullness dwell him in\u0026rdquo; - so besides the entire Gospel of John how\ncan anyone deny that Jesus is God? I don\u0026rsquo;t understand anyone who claims to take\nthe Bible as an authority and then deny Jesus\u0026rsquo; divinity.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;through him to reconcile everything to himself\u0026rdquo; - not all people are saved,\nit\u0026rsquo;s a clear reality. So what does it mean for \u003cstrong\u003eall things\u003c/strong\u003e to be\nreconciled to God? Feels like that could go a lot of places.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u0026ldquo;making peace through his blood\u0026rdquo; - before the cross there was an absence of\n\u0026ldquo;peace\u0026rdquo;, and through Jesus\u0026rsquo; blood peace has been made. Moreso than just that,\nthe \u0026ldquo;make\u0026rdquo; (eirenopoieo: εἰρηνοποιέω) is in the aorist which I understand to be\na tense that means a thing \u0026ldquo;has happened\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;is done happening\u0026rdquo;. ie. it\u0026rsquo;s a\ncompleted action in the past.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"kiss\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eKISS\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#kiss\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m going to keep-it-simple-silly here\u0026hellip; I don\u0026rsquo;t have the energy for arguments\nor unpacking some of these theological ideas that I genuinely do love. I found\nsome old notes on this exact passage in Logos about reconiliation of angels and\nsome grammar questions. However, for this Advent reflection I think there\u0026rsquo;s\njust a simple truth to see, and it\u0026rsquo;s one of the biggest points of the Story of\nthe Bible - Jesus makes peace, and he made peace through hard work, death.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glory of the peace Jesus made is lost on anyone who doesn\u0026rsquo;t recognize that\nthe world is broken. Jesus brings a new reality by unleashing Heaven to earth\nthrough his victory on the cross. We live in an interim \u0026ldquo;already but not yet\u0026rdquo;\nwhere the King Jesus is the rightful ruler over all creation, but he has yet to\ncome back and fully claim his own. The peace he made is a gift to all of\ncreation, for all of creation is his to reconcile.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Jesus calls your name, what are you going to do? What can you do? He\ndefeated death and holds the universe together\u0026hellip; you think you can say \u0026ldquo;no\u0026rdquo;?\nWhat about Jesus \u003cem\u003enot\u003c/em\u003e calling the name of someone in your life? Is peace not\nafforded to them? The Biblical truth is that it\u0026rsquo;s fully and totally up to Yahweh\nto give his own to the Lord Jesus, and to keep each one without losing a hair\non their head. Those who are not of his kingdom will get what they naturally\nwant in the end. What that \u003cstrong\u003eactually is\u003c/strong\u003e I do not know, but it is not\neternity in the presence of a Good King because if God hasn\u0026rsquo;t chosen you, you\ncan\u0026rsquo;t love the Good King. If God hasn\u0026rsquo;t chosen you - you can\u0026rsquo;t \u003cstrong\u003ewant\u003c/strong\u003e the\nGood King. In the end, we all get what we want - the benefit of\nthose chosen by Yahweh is that we are freed to want what is actually good for\nus. We are freed to love and live according to the purposes of our design.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday I pray Jesus impresses the reality of peace, and the freedom to want the\npeace he made, deeper into my heart, amen.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Colossians 1:19-20\"\n\n 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile everything to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.\n\nI feel like there's so much that could be unpacked here...\n\n- \"all his fullness dwell him in\" - so besides the entire Gospel of John how\n can anyone deny that Jesus is God? I don't understand anyone who claims to take\n the Bible as an authority and then deny Jesus' divinity.\n- \"through him to reconcile everything to himself\" - not all people are saved,\n it's a clear reality. So what does it mean for **all things** to be\n reconciled to God? Feels like that could go a lot of places.\n- \"making peace through his blood\" - before the cross there was an absence of\n \"peace\", and through Jesus' blood peace has been made. Moreso than just that,\n the \"make\" (eirenopoieo: εἰρηνοποιέω) is in the aorist which I understand to be\n a tense that means a thing \"has happened\" and \"is done happening\". ie. it's a\n completed action in the past.\n\n## KISS\n\nI'm going to keep-it-simple-silly here... I don't have the energy for arguments\nor unpacking some of these theological ideas that I genuinely do love. I found\nsome old notes on this exact passage in Logos about reconiliation of angels and\nsome grammar questions. However, for this Advent reflection I think there's\njust a simple truth to see, and it's one of the biggest points of the Story of\nthe Bible - Jesus makes peace, and he made peace through hard work, death.\n\nThe glory of the peace Jesus made is lost on anyone who doesn't recognize that\nthe world is broken. Jesus brings a new reality by unleashing Heaven to earth\nthrough his victory on the cross. We live in an interim \"already but not yet\"\nwhere the King Jesus is the rightful ruler over all creation, but he has yet to\ncome back and fully claim his own. The peace he made is a gift to all of\ncreation, for all of creation is his to reconcile.\n\nIf Jesus calls your name, what are you going to do? What can you do? He\ndefeated death and holds the universe together... you think you can say \"no\"?\nWhat about Jesus _not_ calling the name of someone in your life? Is peace not\nafforded to them? The Biblical truth is that it's fully and totally up to Yahweh\nto give his own to the Lord Jesus, and to keep each one without losing a hair\non their head. Those who are not of his kingdom will get what they naturally\nwant in the end. What that **actually is** I do not know, but it is not\neternity in the presence of a Good King because if God hasn't chosen you, you\ncan't love the Good King. If God hasn't chosen you - you can't **want** the\nGood King. In the end, we all get what we want - the benefit of\nthose chosen by Yahweh is that we are freed to want what is actually good for\nus. We are freed to love and live according to the purposes of our design.\n\nToday I pray Jesus impresses the reality of peace, and the freedom to want the\npeace he made, deeper into my heart, amen.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Colossians 1:19-20\"", "date_published": "2025-12-11T05:38:49Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-11T05:38:49Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-john-16-33/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-john-16-33/", "title": "Advent - John 16:33", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eJohn 16:33\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s interesting to read a little context around this morning\u0026rsquo;s Advent\nreflection passage/verse\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eJohn 16:31-33\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e31 Jesus replied to them, “Now do you believe? 32 Behold, an hour is coming—and has come—that you will be scattered each one to his own home, and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt sounds to me like right on the heels of Jesus saying \u0026ldquo;hey, you\u0026rsquo;re gonna\nleave me alone for a minute out of fear\u0026rdquo; he says \u0026ldquo;I still love you, have peace,\nI am victorious\u0026rdquo;\u0026hellip; I think he\u0026rsquo;s saying that the important thing isn\u0026rsquo;t the\nnatural human response to pain and affliction to be to recede. Instead he\u0026rsquo;s\nsaying that in his victory, by his love for us, the affliction will be a\ndistant memory and Jesus is speaking in the reality of affliction being in the\npast, because he has \u003cstrong\u003econquered the world\u003c/strong\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen my daughter\u0026rsquo;s have to do something they are a little scared to do, or\nsomething they don\u0026rsquo;t understand, my response to them is \u0026ldquo;I am your dad, I love\nyou, you don\u0026rsquo;t have to understand why I\u0026rsquo;m asking you to do this right now but\ndo you trust me?\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI try to drive home with my daughters (and my wife for that matter) that in any\nsingle thing I do - they are my priority. I don\u0026rsquo;t always do the thing\nappropriately, I\u0026rsquo;m not saying I\u0026rsquo;m infallible. But I think I get what Jesus is\nsaying here - he is the focus, he is the thing that matter, his victory is more\nmeaningful than my affliction and honestly the comfort from that affliction is\nfound in nothing more than trusting Jesus because I know he loves me. Just like\nI ask my daughters to trust me, and I hope that trust calms their anxiety about\nwhatever I\u0026rsquo;ve asked of them, Jesus says \u0026ldquo;trust me - I have \u003cstrong\u003econquered the world\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"John 16:33\"\n\n I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”\n\nIt's interesting to read a little context around this morning's Advent\nreflection passage/verse...\n\n!!! note \"John 16:31-33\"\n\n 31 Jesus replied to them, “Now do you believe? 32 Behold, an hour is coming—and has come—that you will be scattered each one to his own home, and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world.”\n\nIt sounds to me like right on the heels of Jesus saying \"hey, you're gonna\nleave me alone for a minute out of fear\" he says \"I still love you, have peace,\nI am victorious\"... I think he's saying that the important thing isn't the\nnatural human response to pain and affliction to be to recede. Instead he's\nsaying that in his victory, by his love for us, the affliction will be a\ndistant memory and Jesus is speaking in the reality of affliction being in the\npast, because he has **conquered the world**.\n\nWhen my daughter's have to do something they are a little scared to do, or\nsomething they don't understand, my response to them is \"I am your dad, I love\nyou, you don't have to understand why I'm asking you to do this right now but\ndo you trust me?\"\n\nI try to drive home with my daughters (and my wife for that matter) that in any\nsingle thing I do - they are my priority. I don't always do the thing\nappropriately, I'm not saying I'm infallible. But I think I get what Jesus is\nsaying here - he is the focus, he is the thing that matter, his victory is more\nmeaningful than my affliction and honestly the comfort from that affliction is\nfound in nothing more than trusting Jesus because I know he loves me. Just like\nI ask my daughters to trust me, and I hope that trust calms their anxiety about\nwhatever I've asked of them, Jesus says \"trust me - I have **conquered the world**\"\n", "summary": "!!! note \"John 16:33\"", "date_published": "2025-12-10T05:03:04Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-10T05:03:04Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-zechariah-9-9-10/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-zechariah-9-9-10/", "title": "Advent - Zechariah 9:9-10", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eZechariah 9:9-10\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king comes to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, and on a male donkey, the foal of a female donkey! 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow will be cut down, and he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy king is indeed coming, and has already come. He is humble and he is\nvictorious. Jesus can \u0026ldquo;announce peace\u0026rdquo; because the Kingdom is his - over which to\nannounce whatever he wills. The rulers of this world fight for peace - they\nmake announcements that reality is under no obligation to adhere to. \u0026ldquo;Peace\nthrough strength\u0026rdquo; is not a bad mentality from one nation to another, but within\nthe nation the citizens are ruled by one king whose word either has weight or\nnot. Often the weight of the word of the king is in the form of brutal\nenforcement of the king\u0026rsquo;s will. In the case of King Jesus though, there is\nnothing brutal. He doesn\u0026rsquo;t own the world by conquest, he owns it by right.\nReality itself \u003cem\u003eis under an obligation to obey the architect of the universe\u003c/em\u003e.\nSo when King Jesus announces peace\u0026hellip; what else can happen besides the word of\nthe Lord?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Zechariah 9:9-10\"\n\n 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king comes to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, and on a male donkey, the foal of a female donkey! 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow will be cut down, and he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.\n\nMy king is indeed coming, and has already come. He is humble and he is\nvictorious. Jesus can \"announce peace\" because the Kingdom is his - over which to\nannounce whatever he wills. The rulers of this world fight for peace - they\nmake announcements that reality is under no obligation to adhere to. \"Peace\nthrough strength\" is not a bad mentality from one nation to another, but within\nthe nation the citizens are ruled by one king whose word either has weight or\nnot. Often the weight of the word of the king is in the form of brutal\nenforcement of the king's will. In the case of King Jesus though, there is\nnothing brutal. He doesn't own the world by conquest, he owns it by right.\nReality itself _is under an obligation to obey the architect of the universe_.\nSo when King Jesus announces peace... what else can happen besides the word of\nthe Lord?\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Zechariah 9:9-10\"", "date_published": "2025-12-09T05:06:22Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-09T05:06:22Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-9-6-7/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-9-6-7/", "title": "Advent - Isaiah 9:6-7", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eIsaiah 9:6-7\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"to-peace-there-will-be-no-end\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eTo Peace There Will Be No End\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#to-peace-there-will-be-no-end\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat a fantastic promise about what the King will do - to bring unending peace.\nI wrote about peace during Advent last year - \u003ca href=\"/advent-2024-peace/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Advent 2024 - Peace\" data-description=\"Luke 2:14 (ESV): 14\\u00a0“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”\" data-date=\"2024-12-06\" data-preview=\"Luke 2:14 (ESV): 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”\"\u003eAdvent 2024 - Peace\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThings are as they are supposed to be\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat King Jesus will bring is a kingdom where every relationship is \u003cem\u003eas it is\nsupposed to be\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something amazing and relieving about reconciling with a friend.\nBrokenness is everywhere, and that affects our relationship with everyone, from\nthe best friend to the 3rd cousin of your boss\u0026rsquo;s secretary. The closer you are,\nthe more impactful the brokenness can be, the worse the pain in the\nrelationship can feel, but also the more glorious and cheerful it is when\nthings go from bad to \u003cem\u003eas they should be\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Isaiah 9:6-7\"\n\n 6 For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.\n\n## To Peace There Will Be No End\n\nWhat a fantastic promise about what the King will do - to bring unending peace.\nI wrote about peace during Advent last year - \u003ca href=\"/advent-2024-peace/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Advent 2024 - Peace\" data-description=\"Luke 2:14 (ESV): 14\\u00a0“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”\" data-date=\"2024-12-06\"\u003eAdvent 2024 - Peace\u003c/a\u003e\n\n\u003e Things are as they are supposed to be\n\nWhat King Jesus will bring is a kingdom where every relationship is _as it is\nsupposed to be_.\n\nThere is something amazing and relieving about reconciling with a friend.\nBrokenness is everywhere, and that affects our relationship with everyone, from\nthe best friend to the 3rd cousin of your boss's secretary. The closer you are,\nthe more impactful the brokenness can be, the worse the pain in the\nrelationship can feel, but also the more glorious and cheerful it is when\nthings go from bad to _as they should be_\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Isaiah 9:6-7\"", "date_published": "2025-12-08T04:39:09Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-08T04:39:09Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-2025-love/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-2025-love/", "title": "Advent 2025 - Love", "content_html": "\u003ch1 id=\"advent-address\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eAdvent Address\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"love\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eLove\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#love\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003e1 John 4:7–10 (CSB)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;not that we loved God, but that he loved us\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan a newborn love? When a baby enters the world they are at the mercy of the,\nhopefully, loving mom and dad God gave to them. But, whatever circumstances\nsurround them - they didn\u0026rsquo;t choose any of it. As the child is loved then\nout of that love they develop an affection and love of their own toward Mom and\nDad.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, to love God is only possible out of the love he shows you and me, just like\na child will develop love for Mom and Dad as they are shown love.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot all people love God, but He does show grace to all.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003ePalm 145:9\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYahweh is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd just like Yahweh is good to all, I will show grace to anyone else\u0026rsquo;s kid -\nbut God redeems his own just like at the end of the day I take my own kids\nhome: my kids, who I loved before they could love me. Only my children can love\nme as their Dad, and anyone who is not a child of God cannot love God - John\nsays as much in what we just read together.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut love is more than affection, and even security. It is those things of\ncourse, but it\u0026rsquo;s also more. Something else that love brings to the human life,\nis freedom.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy kids don\u0026rsquo;t get to do just whatever they want - but they\u0026rsquo;re never more free\nthan when they are enjoying life within the boundaries I have set for them. My\nlove for my kids enables them to be as free as reasonably possible\u0026hellip; The\nepitome of freedom for the human is not \u0026ldquo;doing whatever I want\u0026rdquo;, that is\nslavery to myself. If I treat myself as my own\nMaster, then I will be my own slave.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrue freedom is the gift of loving the Lord because loving him is the reason we\nwere created - it\u0026rsquo;s what we were made to do. His love for me frees me to want\nwhat he wants, love what he loves, hate what he hates, and ultimately to enjoy\nhim forever.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hope my kids love what I love, and hate what I hate because I hope that what\nI love and what I hate are in line with God\u0026rsquo;s heart. And as God sent his own\nson into the world out of his love for you and me, may we go forward freed from\nthe bondage of sin and death, into the glorious, true, and loving freedom that\nJesus brings.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"prayer\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePrayer\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#prayer\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood morning, Father. Thank you for Love, thank you for Christmas. For those\nhere who have been freed to love you I pray this week and through Christmas we\nare drawn to consider the freedom we have in your love, the freedom to love\nyou, the freedom to choose what is pleasing to you and not what our\nsinful-selves demand. For those here still dead in their sins, unable to love\nyou, I pray you speak their name and call them to life and to freedom. We long\nfor your return as we celebrate your incarnation. Thank you for loving us\nbefore we could love you, now may we love you and others this week, in Jesus'\nname. Amen.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n# Advent Address\n\n## Love\n\n!!! note \"1 John 4:7–10 (CSB)\"\n\n 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.\n\n\"not that we loved God, but that he loved us\"\n\nCan a newborn love? When a baby enters the world they are at the mercy of the,\nhopefully, loving mom and dad God gave to them. But, whatever circumstances\nsurround them - they didn't choose any of it. As the child is loved then\nout of that love they develop an affection and love of their own toward Mom and\nDad.\n\nSo, to love God is only possible out of the love he shows you and me, just like\na child will develop love for Mom and Dad as they are shown love.\n\nNot all people love God, but He does show grace to all.\n\n!!! note \"Palm 145:9\"\n\n Yahweh is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.\n\nAnd just like Yahweh is good to all, I will show grace to anyone else's kid -\nbut God redeems his own just like at the end of the day I take my own kids\nhome: my kids, who I loved before they could love me. Only my children can love\nme as their Dad, and anyone who is not a child of God cannot love God - John\nsays as much in what we just read together.\n\nBut love is more than affection, and even security. It is those things of\ncourse, but it's also more. Something else that love brings to the human life,\nis freedom.\n\nMy kids don't get to do just whatever they want - but they're never more free\nthan when they are enjoying life within the boundaries I have set for them. My\nlove for my kids enables them to be as free as reasonably possible... The\nepitome of freedom for the human is not \"doing whatever I want\", that is\nslavery to myself. If I treat myself as my own\nMaster, then I will be my own slave.\n\nTrue freedom is the gift of loving the Lord because loving him is the reason we\nwere created - it's what we were made to do. His love for me frees me to want\nwhat he wants, love what he loves, hate what he hates, and ultimately to enjoy\nhim forever.\n\nI hope my kids love what I love, and hate what I hate because I hope that what\nI love and what I hate are in line with God's heart. And as God sent his own\nson into the world out of his love for you and me, may we go forward freed from\nthe bondage of sin and death, into the glorious, true, and loving freedom that\nJesus brings.\n\n## Prayer\n\nGood morning, Father. Thank you for Love, thank you for Christmas. For those\nhere who have been freed to love you I pray this week and through Christmas we\nare drawn to consider the freedom we have in your love, the freedom to love\nyou, the freedom to choose what is pleasing to you and not what our\nsinful-selves demand. For those here still dead in their sins, unable to love\nyou, I pray you speak their name and call them to life and to freedom. We long\nfor your return as we celebrate your incarnation. Thank you for loving us\nbefore we could love you, now may we love you and others this week, in Jesus'\nname. Amen.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"1 John 4:7–10 (CSB)\"", "date_published": "2025-12-07T05:51:43Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-07T05:51:43Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-26-3/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-isaiah-26-3/", "title": "Advent - Isaiah 26:3", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eIsaiah 26:3\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is reminding me of a blog post I\u0026rsquo;ve had in the queue for months\n[[autism-and-steadfast-faith]] which may never see the light of day but it ties\nin with this verse too well to not influence my reflection on it\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"a-firm-inclination\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eA Firm Inclination\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#a-firm-inclination\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is this? I had to open another translation to get the idea, consider the ESV:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eIsaiah 26:3\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m not going to attempt to explain any Hebrew in this one, I\u0026rsquo;m not fluent in\nit and this looks like more than a 1 word translation to me\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20251207120101_3ded911b.png\" alt=\"20251207120101_3ded911b.png\"\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo in observation \u0026ldquo;sa-muk ye-ser\u0026rdquo; is the man \u0026ldquo;whose mind is stayed on (Yahweh)\u0026rdquo;\nis \u0026ldquo;\u003cem\u003ethe man with\u003c/em\u003e a firm inclination\u0026rdquo;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo it\u0026rsquo;s an \u003ccode\u003eattitude\u003c/code\u003e - an \u003cem\u003einclincation\u003c/em\u003e to trust in the Lord\u0026hellip; I definitely\nwant to avoid going down any theological paths about the order of salvation,\nbut personally this is resonating deeply as I describe myself (as do others\nprobably) as a man with a firm inclination to worship and follow Jesus.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor me, obviously the source of the \u0026ldquo;sa-muk ye-ser\u0026rdquo; is Yahweh himself, but the\noutpouring of his blessing of \u0026ldquo;a firm inclination\u0026rdquo; in me is in the form of\nautism I think\u0026hellip; Through my make-up as a human, the traits that got me labeled\n\u003cem\u003eautistic\u003c/em\u003e are also many of the ones that have led me to study and lay the\nfoundation of my faith in Jesus by nothing other than his grace.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a long time, biblical theology was my \u0026ldquo;special interest of autistic\ndegrees\u0026rdquo;, and although I\u0026rsquo;m not drowning in technical papers about Divine\nCouncil Theology at the moment, the seasons and experiences that were\nenabled/affected by being autistic have given me, by God\u0026rsquo;s grace, a history of\nlife to look back on and be encouraged through and have my present-day-faith\nstrengthened by.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"advent\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eAdvent\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#advent\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday marks the second week of Advent - Peace.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise God for Isaiah 26:3 and honestly praise God for autism in my life.\nThrough it he has protected and kept me. It\u0026rsquo;s odd to think about but through\nthe anxiety and turmoil of growing up undiagnosed (actually misdiagnosed -\n\u003ca href=\"/autism-adhd-and-the-doshas/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Autism ADHD and the Doshas\" data-description=\"I was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 and ADHD, the inattentive type. I suppose, AuDHD for short. There are many reasons why I now...\" data-date=\"2025-06-05\" data-preview=\"I was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 and ADHD, the inattentive type. I suppose, AuDHD for short. There are many reasons why I now...\"\u003eAutism ADHD and the Doshas\u003c/a\u003e) autistic, to wrestle with how and why I seemed\nto experience reality differently than most of my friends and community, God\nbrought me to a point of mostly steady peace about the things that happen in my\nlife.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;ve mentioned it in a few writings but right now I feel quite stressed out\nabout some work-related situations that are outside my control\u0026hellip; God\u0026rsquo;s been,\nand is being, good. I both sense the peace of knowing that I don\u0026rsquo;t have to\nworry about my life, as well as the anxiety present (somewhat rightfully) to\nmake the decisions that bring the most glory to God.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI don\u0026rsquo;t think \u0026ldquo;peace\u0026rdquo; means you can\u0026rsquo;t feel anxiety, we live in the \u0026ldquo;already but\nnot yet\u0026rdquo; so the dual-reality is completely expected. I feel blessed that even\nthough I\u0026rsquo;m no stranger to the level of anxiety that can make you physically\nsick, I am also no stranger to an ever-present and quiet corner of my heart\nthat God tends and keeps, strengthens and refreshes, and protects for the sake\nof his own glory. Amen.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Isaiah 26:3\"\n\n You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you.\n\nThis is reminding me of a blog post I've had in the queue for months\n[[autism-and-steadfast-faith]] which may never see the light of day but it ties\nin with this verse too well to not influence my reflection on it\n\n## A Firm Inclination\n\nWhat is this? I had to open another translation to get the idea, consider the ESV:\n\n!!! note \"Isaiah 26:3\"\n\n You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.\n\nI'm not going to attempt to explain any Hebrew in this one, I'm not fluent in\nit and this looks like more than a 1 word translation to me\n\n![20251207120101_3ded911b.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20251207120101_3ded911b.png)\n\nSo in observation \"sa-muk ye-ser\" is the man \"whose mind is stayed on (Yahweh)\"\nis \"_the man with_ a firm inclination\"\n\nSo it's an `attitude` - an _inclincation_ to trust in the Lord... I definitely\nwant to avoid going down any theological paths about the order of salvation,\nbut personally this is resonating deeply as I describe myself (as do others\nprobably) as a man with a firm inclination to worship and follow Jesus.\n\nFor me, obviously the source of the \"sa-muk ye-ser\" is Yahweh himself, but the\noutpouring of his blessing of \"a firm inclination\" in me is in the form of\nautism I think... Through my make-up as a human, the traits that got me labeled\n_autistic_ are also many of the ones that have led me to study and lay the\nfoundation of my faith in Jesus by nothing other than his grace.\n\nFor a long time, biblical theology was my \"special interest of autistic\ndegrees\", and although I'm not drowning in technical papers about Divine\nCouncil Theology at the moment, the seasons and experiences that were\nenabled/affected by being autistic have given me, by God's grace, a history of\nlife to look back on and be encouraged through and have my present-day-faith\nstrengthened by.\n\n## Advent\n\nToday marks the second week of Advent - Peace.\n\nPraise God for Isaiah 26:3 and honestly praise God for autism in my life.\nThrough it he has protected and kept me. It's odd to think about but through\nthe anxiety and turmoil of growing up undiagnosed (actually misdiagnosed -\n\u003ca href=\"/autism-adhd-and-the-doshas/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Autism ADHD and the Doshas\" data-description=\"I was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 and ADHD, the inattentive type. I suppose, AuDHD for short. There are many reasons why I now...\" data-date=\"2025-06-05\"\u003eAutism ADHD and the Doshas\u003c/a\u003e) autistic, to wrestle with how and why I seemed\nto experience reality differently than most of my friends and community, God\nbrought me to a point of mostly steady peace about the things that happen in my\nlife.\n\nI've mentioned it in a few writings but right now I feel quite stressed out\nabout some work-related situations that are outside my control... God's been,\nand is being, good. I both sense the peace of knowing that I don't have to\nworry about my life, as well as the anxiety present (somewhat rightfully) to\nmake the decisions that bring the most glory to God.\n\nI don't think \"peace\" means you can't feel anxiety, we live in the \"already but\nnot yet\" so the dual-reality is completely expected. I feel blessed that even\nthough I'm no stranger to the level of anxiety that can make you physically\nsick, I am also no stranger to an ever-present and quiet corner of my heart\nthat God tends and keeps, strengthens and refreshes, and protects for the sake\nof his own glory. Amen.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Isaiah 26:3\"", "date_published": "2025-12-07T05:49:32Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-07T05:49:32Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-8-24-25/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-8-24-25/", "title": "Advent - Romans 8:24-25", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eRomans 8:24-25\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e24 For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we await it eagerly with patient endurance.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQ: What does it look like for you to actively but patiently wait for God right now?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;What does it look like\u0026rdquo; often causes me to think about hwo someone else might\nobserve my life in relation to the question. This comes up a lot in\ntheology/fellowship discussions \u0026ldquo;what does it look like for\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo; and then we\ntalk about practical things that humans can do that we can see with our eyes.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in my faith journey, as I have seen God\u0026rsquo;s faithfulness to me and my family,\nmy mind is not immediately going to outward looking things\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor example \u0026ldquo;What does it look like for Christians to live differently than\nothers?\u0026rdquo; and the answers are always the same \u0026ldquo;we love our enemies\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;protestant\nwork ethic - Christians should work harder since we work for an audience of\nOne\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;We don\u0026rsquo;t cuss\u0026rdquo;\u0026hellip; etc. Things that someone could conceivably witness and\nthen potentially draw the conclusion of the question (which is that Christians\nought to live differently than non-Christians)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo I see these 2 ways of thinking about the \u0026ldquo;what does it look like\u0026rdquo; question -\nthe outward observable perspective, but then an inward one\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI guess outwardly, there are some answers where someone might\nobserve it and then conclude that I am waiting actively and patiently for the\nLord\u0026hellip; Here are some examples:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Advent wreath on the dining table, anyone who enters out home will see\nit (as do I every day which reminds me of the active waiting)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis blog - anyone who finds my posts should no doubt observe that my life\nhas been claimed by Jesus and I\u0026rsquo;m living my life to that end by his grace\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut inwardly, in the secret\u0026hellip; I think some reality is continuing to sink in\nthat is a byproduct of witnessing God\u0026rsquo;s faithfulness to me\u0026hellip; The way it looks\nfor me to actively but patiently wait on the Lord is to just walk day by day in\nthe life he\u0026rsquo;s given me\u0026hellip; It\u0026rsquo;s a great life - beautiful family, decent work,\nbeyond decent compensation - in a lot of ways I\u0026rsquo;m living the American Dream and\nGod has been so good to me. My patience and activity I hope are not so much\nmanifested by my will but moreso may they be acts of trust in a God who has shown\nhimself worth trusting.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, for me, \u0026ldquo;what does it look like?\u0026rdquo; is it looks like\ntrusting when I\u0026rsquo;m frustrated, it looks like breathing when circumstances aren\u0026rsquo;t\nwhat I wanted, and it looks like putting one foot in front of the other in\ndaily faithful life to Jesus\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Romans 8:24-25\"\n\n 24 For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we await it eagerly with patient endurance.\n\nQ: What does it look like for you to actively but patiently wait for God right now?\n\n\"What does it look like\" often causes me to think about hwo someone else might\nobserve my life in relation to the question. This comes up a lot in\ntheology/fellowship discussions \"what does it look like for...\" and then we\ntalk about practical things that humans can do that we can see with our eyes.\n\nBut in my faith journey, as I have seen God's faithfulness to me and my family,\nmy mind is not immediately going to outward looking things...\n\nFor example \"What does it look like for Christians to live differently than\nothers?\" and the answers are always the same \"we love our enemies\", \"protestant\nwork ethic - Christians should work harder since we work for an audience of\nOne\", \"We don't cuss\"... etc. Things that someone could conceivably witness and\nthen potentially draw the conclusion of the question (which is that Christians\nought to live differently than non-Christians)\n\nSo I see these 2 ways of thinking about the \"what does it look like\" question -\nthe outward observable perspective, but then an inward one\n\nI guess outwardly, there are some answers where someone might\nobserve it and then conclude that I am waiting actively and patiently for the\nLord... Here are some examples:\n\n1. Our Advent wreath on the dining table, anyone who enters out home will see\n it (as do I every day which reminds me of the active waiting)\n2. This blog - anyone who finds my posts should no doubt observe that my life\n has been claimed by Jesus and I'm living my life to that end by his grace\n\nBut inwardly, in the secret... I think some reality is continuing to sink in\nthat is a byproduct of witnessing God's faithfulness to me... The way it looks\nfor me to actively but patiently wait on the Lord is to just walk day by day in\nthe life he's given me... It's a great life - beautiful family, decent work,\nbeyond decent compensation - in a lot of ways I'm living the American Dream and\nGod has been so good to me. My patience and activity I hope are not so much\nmanifested by my will but moreso may they be acts of trust in a God who has shown\nhimself worth trusting.\n\nSo, for me, \"what does it look like?\" is it looks like\ntrusting when I'm frustrated, it looks like breathing when circumstances aren't\nwhat I wanted, and it looks like putting one foot in front of the other in\ndaily faithful life to Jesus...\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Romans 8:24-25\"", "date_published": "2025-12-06T05:37:21Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-06T05:37:21Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent", "faith" ] }, { "id": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-8-20-21/", "url": "https://pype.dev/advent-romans-8-20-21/", "title": "Advent - Romans 8:20-21", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eRomans 8:20-21\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20 For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cpre\u003e\u003ccode\u003eWhat will life be like in God's fully liberated and healed\nworld? What will be the best part of that world?\n\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/pre\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI honestly do not spend a lot of time thinking about the specifics of god\u0026rsquo;s\nfully liberated and healed world\u0026hellip; I do get emotional pretty much every time\nthis passage and related ideas come up - freedom from sin and death certainly\nhas specific consequenes for what daily life will look like. But I don\u0026rsquo;t\nactually want to think too much about what that life will be and here\u0026rsquo;s why\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s like the \u0026ldquo;don\u0026rsquo;t meet your heros\u0026rdquo; mentality\u0026hellip; It\u0026rsquo;s not that they\u0026rsquo;re\nactually a let-down, but we build up heros in our head only to realize that\nthey\u0026rsquo;re just people too\u0026hellip; Seems like this is a pretty common Canon event for a\nchild in one way or another\u0026hellip; Well let\u0026rsquo;s swap out my thoughts about my\nchildhood hero with my thoughts about Heaven\u0026hellip; What do I reasonably \u003cstrong\u003eknow\u003c/strong\u003e\ntoday to look forward to in the life-everlasting?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI will no longer be my own master - today in my heart a war rages daily\u0026hellip; I\nwake up every morning acutely aware of the pieces of me that are hostile to\nGod - they ache but they\u0026rsquo;re also comfortable\u0026hellip; I cannot wait to be fully freed\nfrom this\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe whole earth will praise the name of the Lord and to be in community with\npeople of common mind and faith sounds (again) - freeing.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond these 2 high-level truths, which we certainly could unpack a bit more, I\nwould uncomfortable to make any assertions about what the future kingdom will\nlook like, but I know I look forward to it\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow? How to look forward to something you can\u0026rsquo;t concretely describe in physical\nterms? Because my God, the Truth-Teller, is the one who tells us about it\u0026hellip; I\ndon\u0026rsquo;t have to understand everything behing the Word of God - because I trust\nthe Person of God and therefore his word\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"notes\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eNotes\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#notes\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCertainly there isn\u0026rsquo;t actually a Chaiasism here\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA: 18 For I consider that the sufferings of the present time\n\u0026ndash;B: are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is\n\u0026mdash;-C: about to be revealed to us.o\n\u0026mdash;\u0026mdash;D: 19 For the eagerly expecting creation\n\u0026mdash;\u0026mdash;D\u0026rsquo;: awaits eagerly\n\u0026mdash;-C\u0026rsquo;: the revelation of the sons of God.\n\u0026ndash;B\u0026rsquo;: 20 For the creation has been subjected to futility,\nA\u0026rsquo;: not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it,\n\u003ccode\u003enot sure about \u0026quot;in hope\u0026quot; and into 21\u003c/code\u003e\nin hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n!!! note \"Romans 8:20-21\"\n\n 20 For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.\n\n```\nWhat will life be like in God's fully liberated and healed\nworld? What will be the best part of that world?\n```\n\nI honestly do not spend a lot of time thinking about the specifics of god's\nfully liberated and healed world... I do get emotional pretty much every time\nthis passage and related ideas come up - freedom from sin and death certainly\nhas specific consequenes for what daily life will look like. But I don't\nactually want to think too much about what that life will be and here's why...\n\nIt's like the \"don't meet your heros\" mentality... It's not that they're\nactually a let-down, but we build up heros in our head only to realize that\nthey're just people too... Seems like this is a pretty common Canon event for a\nchild in one way or another... Well let's swap out my thoughts about my\nchildhood hero with my thoughts about Heaven... What do I reasonably **know**\ntoday to look forward to in the life-everlasting?\n\n1. I will no longer be my own master - today in my heart a war rages daily... I\n wake up every morning acutely aware of the pieces of me that are hostile to\n God - they ache but they're also comfortable... I cannot wait to be fully freed\n from this\n2. The whole earth will praise the name of the Lord and to be in community with\n people of common mind and faith sounds (again) - freeing.\n\nBeyond these 2 high-level truths, which we certainly could unpack a bit more, I\nwould uncomfortable to make any assertions about what the future kingdom will\nlook like, but I know I look forward to it\n\nHow? How to look forward to something you can't concretely describe in physical\nterms? Because my God, the Truth-Teller, is the one who tells us about it... I\ndon't have to understand everything behing the Word of God - because I trust\nthe Person of God and therefore his word\n\n## Notes\n\nCertainly there isn't actually a Chaiasism here...\n\nA: 18 For I consider that the sufferings of the present time\n--B: are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is\n----C: about to be revealed to us.o\n------D: 19 For the eagerly expecting creation\n------D': awaits eagerly\n----C': the revelation of the sons of God.\n--B': 20 For the creation has been subjected to futility,\nA': not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it,\n`not sure about \"in hope\" and into 21`\nin hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.\n", "summary": "!!! note \"Romans 8:20-21\"", "date_published": "2025-12-05T05:00:42Z", "date_modified": "2025-12-05T05:00:42Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Nic Payne", "url": "https://pype.dev" } ], "tags": [ "advent" ] } ] }