sabbath

Sabbath Is Not About Doing Nothing

I’ve been rethinking Sabbath — not as stopping work, but as stepping out of the pressure behind it.

Unfinished Work Is Not Failure

It’s harder to rest when things are left unfinished. But maybe that’s exactly the point — learning to step away without needing everything to be resolved.

Finished, Not Complete - Learning to Be Satisfied Without Immediate Results

Some work is finished before it is complete. This piece explores the difference between completing the work itself and seeing the results of that work—and why learning to be satisfied in that gap is essential.

The Work That Remains When Striving Ends

When the pressure to prove something fades, the work does not stop—it becomes clearer and more grounded. This piece reflects on meaningful progress, including recent Continuum releases and foundational improvements, done without striving but not without purpose or responsibility.

Rest Is Not the Absence of Work (it Is the Absence of Labor)

Rest is not about stopping activity—it’s about ceasing from striving. This piece explores what it means to continue building, writing, and creating without the burden of pressure, while letting the weight of labor fall away.

Sabbath Is Not a Break. It’s Alignment.

Sabbath is not a recovery mechanism for exhaustion—it is a return to alignment with God as the true source. This article explores how rest reframes work, exposes hidden dependencies, and reshapes the way we build, write, and live.

You Cannot Build What You Refuse to Leave

Sabbath reveals whether we are building in trust or in control. This article explores how our attachment to work exposes hidden dependencies, and why true durability requires the ability to step away.

Sabbath and the Promise of the New Creation

The Sabbath is not only a command about rest; it is a sign pointing toward the future restoration of all things. Each Sabbath serves as a small foretaste of the New Creation, when the broken rhythms of the present world will finally be healed.

Taxes, Labor, and the Limits of the State

Throughout history, taxation has expanded alongside state power. From a libertarian perspective, much of modern taxation resembles a form of compelled labor. The biblical concept of Sabbath introduces a powerful counter-principle: human time ultimately belongs to God, not to political authorities.

Fiat Money and the Acceleration of Time

Monetary systems influence how societies perceive time. Inflationary fiat systems encourage acceleration and short-term thinking, while the Sabbath rhythm introduces a counter-pattern that restores patience and perspective.

Sabbath in an Inflationary World

Inflation reshapes how people think about time, labor, and security. When money loses value, the system quietly pressures individuals toward constant activity and acceleration. The biblical rhythm of Sabbath interrupts that pressure by reminding us that provision does not ultimately come from endless economic striving.

A Good Day of Building

Reflecting on a day of calm progress, small improvements, and the quiet satisfaction of building something meaningful.

Local-First Software and the Rhythm of Rest

Exploring how local-first architecture reflects deeper principles about independence, resilience, and rest.

The Sabbath and the Joy of Building

Reflecting on how meaningful work can sometimes feel like rest when it aligns with purpose and calling.

Freedom Requires Rhythm

Total freedom without rhythm becomes chaos. Sabbath is the rhythm that preserves strength, clarity, and long-term impact.

Sabbath Is Not Laziness — It Is Authority

Sabbath is not retreat from work. It is dominion over it. To rest intentionally is to declare that provision does not come from panic.

The Courage to Stop

Stopping requires more faith than striving. Sabbath is trust enacted in time. It confronts anxiety, ambition, and identity — and restores clarity.

The Cathedral Is Built in Quiet

Great structures are not erected in noise. This reflection connects Sabbath stillness with long-term architectural thinking — both spiritual and technological.

Not Publishing Is Not Failing

Silence can feel like regression for creators. This essay explores how deliberate non-output becomes a powerful act of sovereignty and trust.

The Sabbath of Builders: Rest Without Asking

What does it mean to rest when the world rewards output? This piece reflects on the tension between constant production and sacred pause — especially for builders who feel called to create without permission.

Rest Is an Act of Trust, Not a Reward

Sabbath rest is not something earned after work is complete. It is an act of trust practiced before outcomes are secure. Rest exposes whether we believe our effort or God’s provision is what ultimately sustains us.

Sabbath Reorients Desire

Sabbath is not merely about stopping work. It is about retraining desire. By interrupting production and striving, Sabbath exposes what we love and gradually reorders the heart toward gratitude, delight, and trust.

Sabbath as a Limit We Don’t Choose for Ourselves

Sabbath is not primarily about recovery or discipline. It is about accepting limits we did not design. By commanding rest, God confronts the human tendency to treat effort as identity and motion as necessity.

Sabbath and the Courage to Be Unseen

Sabbath teaches us to accept being unseen, unresponsive, and unmeasured — even temporarily. In a culture addicted to visibility, this kind of rest requires courage.

Sabbath as Resistance in a World That Never Stops

Sabbath is not rest as recovery for more work. It is resistance against systems that demand constant output, visibility, and optimization. In a culture that never stops measuring worth by productivity, Sabbath quietly declares freedom.

The Sabbath Is Not Earned

Sabbath is not a reward for finishing your work. It is a gift given before productivity begins. Treating rest as something to be earned reverses the order God established.

Rest Is Not Leisure: Why Sabbath Exists in a World That Extracts

Modern culture treats rest as a tool for recovery so we can return to productivity. Sabbath, by contrast, was designed as a hard boundary against extraction itself. This essay explores why true rest feels threatening in modern economic systems, how leisure has replaced cessation, and why rest—properly understood—is a structural act of resistance rather than personal indulgence.

Free Article 1 (Jan. 4, 2026): Renewal Begins With Rest

True renewal does not begin with ambition, planning, or self-improvement. It begins with rest. The first Sunday of the New Year invites us to stop striving and remember who we are before we try to become anything else.

Sabbath Article (Jan. 3, 2026): The First Sabbath of 2026 Is a Line in Time

in time — a quiet declaration about how the year will be inhabited. In a culture addicted to optimization and urgency, beginning 2026 with Sabbath is an act of sovereignty. This essay reflects on Sabbath as boundary, trust, and orientation, and why starting the year with rest may be the most faithful and future-oriented choice we can make.

Sabbath Article (Dec. 27, 2025): When You Are Tired, You Are Still Being Carried

A reflection on fatigue, grief, and the assurance that faithfulness does not depend on constant strength.

Sabbath Article (Dec. 20, 2025): Sabbath in a Tight Season

Sabbath is often framed as rest that flows from abundance, margin, or completion. This reflection explores Sabbath in a tighter, harder register — as rest practiced under constraint, uncertainty, and waiting. It reflects on what Sabbath means when there is no surplus, and why that form of rest may be closer to its original intent.

Sabbath Article (Dec. 13, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles 1.A.0.0.4.3 — Sabbath Cycle: The Day the Systems Went Quiet

In the late Earthbound era, just decades before Pilgrim-1, a quiet experiment spread across cities and networks alike: a voluntary, coordinated pause. This Sabbath Chronicle examines how intentional stillness became an act of sovereignty—and why systems built without rest inevitably collapse.

Sabbath Article (Sept. 13, 2025): Why is a Sabbath Rest Important in a Digital Age

n an age of constant notifications and digital noise, the Sabbath principle of rest offers not just relief but a path back to wholeness. True sovereignty requires not only freedom to act, but freedom to stop.

Sabbath Article (Dec. 6, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - 1.B.10 - The Sovereign Canon

As Luna matured into a sovereign world, its guilds, Archivists, elders, and settlers began gathering the philosophies, laws, histories, and spiritual insights that defined their civilization. The result became known as the Sovereign Canon — a collection of teachings, oaths, principles, and stories that preserved the soul of the lunar diaspora and guided humanity’s expansion to the stars.

Sabbath Article (Nov. 29, 2025): The Bitcoin Chronicles - Book 0 - Part I - The Creator's Pulse

Before stars, before particles, before spacetime itself—there was the pulse of the Creator, the uncreated source of all being. This piece establishes the metaphysical foundation of the Chronicles: creation as an act of intentionality, resonance, and sovereign love.

Sabbath Article (Nov. 22, 2025): Sabbath for the Sovereign: Resting From the World’s Rent-Extraction System

A meditation on the Sabbath principle — not as a religious artifact, but as a universal pattern of rest, resistance, and sovereignty. This article explores why modern people have no economic Sabbath, how perpetual extraction has replaced rest, why Bitcoin functions as a Sabbath-technology, and how reclaiming rest becomes an act of freedom in an age built on debt, interest, and rent.

Sabbath Article (Nov. 15, 2025): The Day Continuum Became Permanent

A deep, long-form reflection on the moment Continuum’s archive truly came alive — transforming the platform from a tool into a sovereign memory system. Saturday’s breakthrough becomes a lens for examining permanence, responsibility, and the emotional meaning of building something designed to outlast platforms and relays.

Free Article 1 (Nov. 9, 2025): The Economy of Grace

The world runs on scarcity, but the Kingdom runs on grace. Provision begins not when we have enough — but when we learn to see enough.

Sabbath Article (Nov. 8, 2025): The Sabbath Firewall

Even builders of open systems need rest. The Sabbath isn’t withdrawal from creation; it’s its completion — the security patch for the soul.

Sabbath Article (Nov. 1, 2025): The Leatherworker’s Freedom

Real wealth isn’t measured in margins or markets; it’s measured in integrity. A man who makes something durable with his hands and keeps his promises has already built the kind of freedom most corporations can only brand.

Sabbath Article (Oct. 25, 2025): The Fragility and the Breath

Sabbath doesn’t always come with joy. Sometimes it arrives as exhaustion after a night of panic, or the slow return of breath after fear has hollowed you out. This week, it came through Whiskers — the small, trembling heartbeat that reminded us what rest really means. Sabbath is not escape from fragility; it is learning to dwell inside it without breaking.

Free Article 2 (Oct. 26, 2025): Between Dust and Stars

We keep reaching upward — from dust to sky, from moonlight to starlight — yet we remain creatures of both. This piece reflects on the paradox of human restlessness and rootedness: how we were made to explore, yet never escape our dependence on grace.

Free Article 1 (Oct. 26, 2025): The Heavens Belong to God

We dream of new worlds — the Moon, Mars, the asteroids — but if the heavens already belong to God, what does it mean to build, to claim, or to settle? This reflection wrestles with the paradox of possession and stewardship, tracing how human ambition might yet serve a higher design.

Sabbath Article (Oct. 18, 2025): ✨ Resurrection in Real Time

Resurrection isn’t distant miracle but daily verification — truth enduring through time, relationships restored through remembrance, and love proving itself real in every renewed act of trust.

Sabbath Article (Sept, 6, 2025): The Rhythm of Creation and Rest

Reflects on the biblical rhythm of creation and rest, showing how sovereignty and Bitcoin restore balance in a world of fiat busyness. Argues that rest leads to creativity and abundance.

What I Didn't Know About the Sabbath

I thought the New Testament Church observed the Sabbath, but I was wrong.

What I Didn't Know About Sunday

What I didn't know about Sunday, I found in the Bible!

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