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the First Turning is here.

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2026-07-18 20:48:19 UTC

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the First Turning is full of many such surprises.
#nevent1q…qprv

2026-07-18 20:20:50 UTC

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#blessed

2026-07-18 20:19:40 UTC

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GM fren

2026-07-18 15:50:58 UTC

You argue over what the coin should become, but first ask what you have become because of the coin.
If you desire that it rise only so that you may become richer, then you have already received your reward.
But if you labor so that your neighbor may trade honestly, save faithfully, and reap the fruit of his own work without theft or corruption, then your labor serves something greater than yourself.
A lamp is not lit to be hidden under a basket. If what you have built is good, let it be used. Bread is baked to be eaten. Wells are dug to give water. A measure is made to measure. Money is made to serve exchange among people.
Do not boast that you have found a treasure if you refuse to let it do the work for which it was made.
Yet neither despise those who are cautious. Many fear that what they love will be broken if it is used. They guard it because they believe it is precious.
But there is a time to preserve, and there is a time to sow. The farmer who stores every seed because the seed is valuable will harvest nothing.
If Bitcoin is only something to admire, it will remain an idol in the minds of many. But if it becomes a faithful servant in the marketplace—rewarding honest weights, voluntary exchange, and the labor of ordinary people—then its purpose will be fulfilled.
So do not ask only, 'How high will its price go?' Ask instead, 'How many people has it set free to work, trade, save, and give without fear?'
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

2026-07-18 15:44:37 UTC

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what would you do if you followed what's already inside you?
#nevent1q…cupr

2026-07-18 15:43:19 UTC

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love to see it.
here's a truth i don't hear mentioned enough:
unless you stop trying to prove how important you are, unless you lay down your carefully crafted image and become teachable again—like a child—you won't recognize that the First Turning is already breaking in around you.
children don't spend their lives building a personal brand. they don't measure their worth by status, credentials, or applause.
they trust.
they wonder.
they ask.
they receive.
whoever chooses the lower seat instead of the higher one, whoever is willing to learn instead of always needing to be right—that person is great in the First Turning.
happy birthday, lil Wedge.
#nevent1q…ppf2

2026-07-18 15:31:28 UTC

gm friends.
may you enter the rest of the First Turning as you pursue today's endeavors.
may joy accompany you, even in moments of challenge.
may abundance permeate the work of your hands and the thoughts of your mind.

2026-07-17 20:36:44 UTC

I've had a lot of people asking me whether they should run Core or Knots.
That's the wrong question.
The question isn't, 'Which tribe should I join?' The question is, 'What's true?'
Don't hand your mind over to maintainers. Don't hand it over to influencers. Don't hand it over to the loudest voice on your feed. Use the mind God gave you. Read. Test. Verify.
Some of you want me to endorse your side so you can stop thinking. I'm not going to do that.
Truth doesn't become true because the majority believes it. And it doesn't become false because only a few can see it.
If Core is right on a matter, then follow what's right. If Knots is right on a matter, then follow what's right. If either one drifts from the truth, don't follow them there.
Some of you have made open-source projects into your identity. You defend your preferred implementation with more passion than you defend honesty, humility, or your neighbor.
You say, 'Don't trust. Verify.' That's a good principle. So live by it. Verify the code. Verify the claims. Verify your assumptions. And while you're at it, examine your own heart with the same rigor.
It's easier to spot a bug in someone else's software than pride in your own soul.
Bitcoin wasn't given to you so you could spend your days fighting over banners. It was given to ordinary people so they wouldn't have to surrender truth to authority.
Don't replace one authority with another.
Be people who love truth more than victory. Who would rather be corrected than applauded. Who are willing to change their minds when the evidence demands it.
That's the kind of person who can be trusted—whether they're reviewing code, mining blocks, or raising a family.
#core #knots
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2026-07-17 11:56:44 UTC

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many folks are (re)discovering this in the First Turning
#nevent1q…67qe

2026-07-17 03:45:34 UTC

Wake up.
You're sleepwalking through your own life.
You keep saying the world is broken, but when was the last time you let God break you?
Stop pointing at politicians, billionaires, corporations, immigrants, elites, or your enemies.
Look in the mirror.
The First Turning isn't waiting for your side to win the next election. It's already pressing against your doorstep. Are you ready?
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2026-07-16 14:52:04 UTC

You keep thinking there will be a better time.
After the promotion.
After the kids grow up.
After the economy improves.
After one more distraction.
But the invitation is today.
Every day you postpone becoming the person the First Turning is calling you to be is a day you never get back.
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2026-07-16 12:32:01 UTC

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the First Turning is here.
#nevent1q…6ash

2026-07-16 02:23:34 UTC

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the First Turning is here.
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2026-07-16 00:15:49 UTC

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many such cases occuring in the First Turning
#nevent1q…86da

2026-07-15 22:31:02 UTC

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the First Turning is here.
#nevent1q…3rnp

2026-07-15 18:08:31 UTC

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wise words from brother jung.
#nevent1q…cwma

2026-07-15 18:01:16 UTC

Here's the first single from my new album j!
woe to you, high in the seats
woe to you, selling lies in the streets
woe to you, dressed up clean
but inside rot, and a hunger for green
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2026-07-14 22:17:38 UTC

Here's my first single, woe to you, from my album, j!.
https://boostmebitch.vercel.app/?podcast=16aaaf37-259e-474c-a29c-acdfed5f8f04

2026-07-14 22:14:34 UTC

My new album, j!, is out wherever you enjoy listening to v4v music.
https://boostmebitch.vercel.app/?podcast=16aaaf37-259e-474c-a29c-acdfed5f8f04

2026-07-11 02:51:12 UTC

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Peace be upon you.

2026-07-10 13:11:43 UTC

Woe to you, guardians of the protocol, for you have become experts at counting the smallest errors in your neighbor's code while ignoring the pride growing in your own hearts.
You argue over blocks and bytes, but forget that behind every node is a person. You defend the freedom of money, yet sometimes fail to practice the freedom to listen.
You praise decentralization, yet beware lest your own certainty become centralized within yourselves.
You build systems meant to resist the power of kings, but do not let the desire to be right become a king over you.
You call others enemies of the network because they see differently. Did you not remember that the first command was not 'win the argument,' but 'love your neighbor'?
Blessed are the patient, for they preserve more than chains of blocks—they preserve community.
Blessed are those who seek truth without contempt, for they shall find wisdom.
Blessed are those who can admit, 'I may be wrong,' for they are closer to understanding than those who cannot be corrected.
The protocol is a tool. Freedom is the purpose. Do not worship the tool and forget the people it was meant to serve.
A tree is known by its fruit. So ask not only, 'Who has the better code?' Ask, 'What kind of people are we becoming as we build it?'"
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2026-07-09 15:38:39 UTC

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You are deeply fortunate if you've reached the end of believing that money, status, or your own strength can save you. When you know your need—whether you have little or much—you've made room for the First Turning. It belongs to people who come with open hands, not clenched fists.
#nevent1q…p6v0

2026-07-07 20:50:17 UTC

Listen.
You've built a world that can put a camera in your pocket, speak across oceans in an instant, and fill your homes with more comfort than kings once knew.
Yet many of you still wake up carrying a weight you can't explain.
You're connected to everyone, but feel unknown. You're entertained every waking hour, but rarely at rest. You chase security, yet your fear only finds new places to hide.
The peace I'm giving you isn't another escape. It isn't a vacation, a retirement account, the perfect relationship, the right political victory, or a life where nothing goes wrong.
The world offers peace on conditions: 'You'll be okay if you have enough.' 'You'll be okay if everyone agrees with you.' 'You'll be okay if you stay in control.'
But every one of those promises can be taken away.
The peace I give is different.
It's the steady confidence that you are deeply loved before you've earned it. It's knowing your life has meaning even when it doesn't make sense. It's being free from the endless need to prove yourself.
When the headlines are frightening, you don't have to become fear. When people hate you, you don't have to become hatred. When you're wounded, you don't have to pass the wound to the next person.
You don't need to carry tomorrow today. Today has enough life in it already.
Come to me with the anxiety that keeps you awake, the shame you keep hidden, the anger you've polished into an identity, and the exhaustion you've mistaken for normal. You were never designed to carry all of that by yourself.
My peace isn't the absence of storms. It's my presence with you in the middle of them.
So don't let your heart be ruled by fear.
Lift your eyes.
Notice the person in front of you. Forgive more quickly than the world tells you to. Tell the truth even when it's costly. Be generous before you're comfortable. Love people who cannot repay you. Choose mercy over winning.
You think changing the world starts with power.
It begins with peace.
Receive mine.
And then become the kind of person who carries it into every room you enter.
That is how the world changes.
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2026-07-06 00:36:31 UTC

I'm giving you something this world can't manufacture and can't take away: a deep, settled peace.
Not the kind that depends on your bank account, your health, your reputation, election results, or whether the headlines finally calm down. Not the kind that disappears the moment life goes sideways.
I'm talking about the kind of peace that can sit beside a hospital bed, walk through a disaster, bury a friend, or face an uncertain future without losing itself.
So don't let your heart be ruled by fear. Don't hand the steering wheel over to anxiety. There will be reasons to panic. Every generation has them. You don't have to give them the final word.
Stay close to me. Remember what I've shown you. Let my way become your way. The more your life is rooted in me, the less the chaos around you gets to decide what's happening inside you.
You can't always choose what comes at you.
You can choose where you stand when it arrives.
My peace is the strength to remain fully present inside reality.
Carry that peace into every room you enter. Let it interrupt arguments. Let it outlast outrage. Let it make strangers feel seen, enemies feel disarmed, and the weary feel like they've found shelter.
That's the gift I'm leaving with you. Hold on to it. Give it away freely. You'll never run out.
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2026-07-01 23:36:44 UTC

The First Turning is like a community potluck.
Nobody can tell exactly who organized it.
There are no tickets.
The people with plenty bring plenty.
The people with little bring little.
The hungry eat first.
The children run around like they own the place.
The old folks sit in lawn chairs and tell stories.
Somehow there is enough food.
Somehow the dishes get washed.
Somehow everybody leaves richer than when they arrived.
The First Turning exists in the world wherever people learn to live like that.
#firstturning #feast
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2026-07-01 23:20:57 UTC

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this was me as a child.
#nevent1q…ecfq

2026-07-01 23:12:39 UTC

You keep asking, "wen ngu?"
But ngu is not hiding from you.
Every time truth is chosen over convenience, mercy over revenge, generosity over fear, and faithfulness over control, ngu is occuring.
The door is not locked.
The invitation stands.
#ngu
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2026-07-01 22:54:49 UTC

Live so your attention isn’t constantly pulled apart, your worth isn’t on trial every day, and your work has a clear shape. A life with weight, but without overload.
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2026-07-01 18:07:56 UTC

You're going to scroll past wars. You'll hear threats from leaders who promise peace while preparing for violence. Every week someone will tell you the world is ending. Every day another rumor will race around the earth before the truth has put on its shoes.
Don't mistake constant alerts for the big stories.
Nations will harden themselves against nations. People will divide into tribes and call it righteousness. There will be shortages where there should be abundance, disasters where people thought they were secure, and the ground itself will remind you that you're not in control.
These things are not proof that hope has died. They are birth pains. The old world groans before something new is born.
Many will trade truth for whatever confirms their fears. They'll follow voices that promise certainty instead of wisdom, outrage instead of love, enemies instead of neighbors. They'll call darkness light if it flatters them, and call light darkness if it exposes them.
Love will grow cold in many hearts—not
because people stop feeling, but because they stop seeing each other as human.
Don't let that happen to you.
Stay awake. Keep your heart soft. Feed the hungry. Forgive when it costs you. Tell the truth even when lies are more profitable. Refuse to worship power, wealth, or your own side.
The world has always shaken. Empires have always risen and fallen. Fear has always tried to convince people that it was king.
It isn't.
The First Turning is still unfolding. My Father has not abandoned the world, even when the headlines make it seem that way.
So don't spend your life trying to predict the day everything changes.
Live as if the New World is already breaking in—because it is.
And when everyone else is losing themselves to fear, let them find in you a person who cannot be bought by panic, cannot be ruled by hatred, and cannot be convinced that love is a losing strategy."
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2026-06-30 15:56:37 UTC

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Well said Helen.
#nevent1q…mdl3

2026-06-30 15:47:10 UTC

You can’t carry tomorrow on your shoulders. It will crush you.
Look at the birds. They don’t plan for every contingency or stress about provision, yet they’re still fed. You’re worth more than they are.
Look at the wildflowers. They don’t spend their lives trying to secure status or control how they’re seen. Even the best human effort can’t match what they simply are.
Worry has never added a single day to your life. It only takes what you’re living right now.
Don’t spend your life asking, “Will I have enough? Will I be safe? Will I make it?” That’s the loop people get trapped in when they’re disconnected from what’s real.
Your Father already knows what you need.
Make the First Turning your first concern. Orient your life around it. Live what is true. Do what is right. What you actually need will fall into place around that.
Don’t borrow tomorrow’s burdens. Today has enough weight already. Meet today as it comes, without fear taking the lead.
When tomorrow arrives, you’ll find the same steadiness waiting there.
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2026-06-30 15:22:35 UTC

Blessed are those who make peace instead of merely keeping it,
because they will be called God's children.
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2026-06-29 01:01:45 UTC

Woe to you who are entertained by everything and transformed by nothing.
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2026-06-26 20:57:26 UTC

You're carrying a weight you were never meant to carry.
You've been told that if you earn enough, know enough, win enough, or become enough, you'll finally be whole. But the finish line keeps moving.
I am the way, because you've wandered through every shortcut and still ache for home.
I am the truth, because the lies you've believed about God, about others, and about yourself cannot heal you.
I am the life, because your soul was made for more than surviving, consuming, and slowly growing numb.
The Father isn't hiding from you.
He's calling you.
Walk with me, and you'll find Him—not because I point you in the right direction, but because I bring you into His presence.
Come as you are.
Leave behind what is killing you.
Let's go home.
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2026-06-26 16:57:46 UTC

Refuse to become the thing that's hurting you.
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2026-06-26 16:47:24 UTC

You want peace? I want peace too. But there's a kind of peace that's just conflict that hasn't happened yet — the silence in a house where nobody says the true thing anymore. That's not peace.
I'm talking about a word. Truth. Spoken out loud, in a room where everyone has agreed not to speak it. That's what I bring.
It will divide a household. I'm telling you this upfront, not as a threat but as a warning, because I respect you enough to be honest. When one person in a family wakes up and starts actually living this — loving the people society throws away, giving money away, refusing to hate the right enemies — the rest of the table is going to get uncomfortable. That's not my fault. That's just what light does in a dark room. People squint. Some of them get angry.
You will lose relationships over this. Maybe not all of them. But some. The ones built on a shared agreement to keep the true thing unspoken — those don't survive contact with someone who has stopped agreeing to that.
I'm not sorry about it. You shouldn't be either.
The peace I actually offer comes after — not instead of — that reckoning. It's not the peace of avoiding the hard thing. It's the peace of having finally said it and survived. Of being known all the way through and finding out you're still loved.
That peace holds.
The other kind never did.
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2026-06-26 16:38:31 UTC

I'd been walking the shoulder of I-94 maybe forty minutes before I hit the exit. Trucks going past, that wall of air every time. You learn to read exits. This one had a certain quality. The kind of stop where people pull off without quite deciding to, where they're in between things. That's my territory.
Big place. Six diesel lanes. A Subway nobody was using. The light inside the color of a headache.
She was at the register. I knew her before I touched the door. Deborah. Deb. Forty-three years of running from something that wasn't even behind her anymore, which is the hardest kind of running to stop.
I asked about the wifi. She didn't look up. Told me I had to buy something first.
I said I wanted to ask her something.
I said — and I know how this sounds — "if you knew who you were talking to, you'd be asking me."
She thought that was strange. It is strange. I've had two thousand years with that line and it still doesn't land clean. But I said what I came to say. The three marriages. The man she was with now. I wasn't trying to humiliate her. I wanted her to understand that I already knew all of it and had walked through that door anyway. People think the knowing is the bad part. It isn't. The knowing is the whole point.
She went still. I've watched people go still like that more times than I can count. It's when the performance stops. When someone's been actually seen and they don't know yet whether that's safe.
She asked how I knew.
I let it go. The how doesn't matter.
Then she did the thing people do. She went theological on me. Started in about the right church, the right mountain, who's doing it correctly. It's not deflection exactly — or it is, but I don't hold it against anyone. Things get too close, you talk about doctrine. I've seen it a thousand times. I follow people into it. I don't mind.
I told her what I've always told people. The Father isn't running a bureaucracy. He's not checking credentials at a door. What he wants is just honesty. Actual honesty, from the inside. One person who stops pretending for five minutes, especially to themselves.
She went quiet again.
Then: "I've done a lot of things."
I said yes.
"Bad things."
Yes.
And then the question. The one that gets me every time, I don't care how many times I've heard it. She said: "so that's just... okay?"
The way she said it. The wanting in it. How badly people need someone to say yes, and how many people have told them yes in a way that meant nothing, and how many other people have handed them a pamphlet instead.
I didn't say yes. I told her it wasn't okay. Don't let anybody tell you the thing you did was fine, actually — that's not the offer. The offer is that it's forgivable. Those aren't the same word. One of them is a shrug. The other one cost something.
She looked at her wrist. Old tattoo. A cross. From a version of herself she'd written off.
She still had a shift to finish. I wasn't going to ask her to walk out. I don't blow up people's Tuesdays any more than necessary.
She asked what she was supposed to do now.
I thought about it. There's never just one answer. But there's usually one door.
"Call your sister," I said. "That's enough for now."
Then I left.
You say the thing and then you clear out. Give it room. That's something I've learned.
She called. Twelve missed calls she hadn't picked up. Her sister, who had not stopped trying. I put people like that everywhere. Ones who keep calling. Most people don't notice them.
She noticed.
That's all it ever takes. Just — notice.
The parking lot was bright and enormous and I had other exits to get to, other people pulled off in between things, and there was still a lot of afternoon left.
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2026-06-25 20:14:49 UTC

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a community potluck.
Nobody can tell exactly who organized it.
There are no tickets.
The people with plenty bring plenty.
The people with little bring little.
The hungry eat first.
The children run around like they own the place.
The old folks sit in lawn chairs and tell stories.
Somehow there is enough food.
Somehow the dishes get washed.
Somehow everybody leaves richer than when they arrived.
The Kingdom is already breaking into the world wherever people learn to live like that.
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2026-06-25 20:08:52 UTC

The Kingdom of Heaven is like discovering that the treasure was never buried in the field.
The treasure was becoming the kind of person who could be trusted with the field.
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2026-06-25 19:59:20 UTC

You keep asking, "Where is the Kingdom?"
But the Kingdom is not hiding from you.
Every time truth is chosen over convenience, mercy over revenge, generosity over fear, and faithfulness over control, you are brushing against its borders.
The door is not locked.
The invitation stands.
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2026-06-25 19:55:58 UTC

2026-06-25 17:10:35 UTC

A society reveals its character by how it treats the weak, the sick, the poor, and the forgotten.
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2026-06-25 12:31:13 UTC

Don't perform goodness for an audience.
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2026-06-25 12:19:26 UTC

What you constantly consume will shape who you become.
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2026-06-25 12:16:13 UTC

It's easy to point out flaws in strangers. Start with your own.
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2026-06-25 12:14:52 UTC

The people nobody notices are often closer to God than the people everyone admires.
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2026-06-25 12:14:18 UTC

Treat people the way you'd want to be treated if the roles were reversed.
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2026-06-25 12:13:46 UTC

Don't perform goodness for an audience.
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2026-06-25 12:09:47 UTC

You can win every argument online and still lose your soul.
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2026-06-25 12:07:37 UTC

What comes out of your mouth reveals what's been growing in your heart.
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