[CS-FSLUG] Just the change the subject

[Stephen McCracken]

Ed Hurst wrote:
[snip]
> The only way I'd consider running something else would be if I got a
> newer machine. That isn't likely to happen anytime soon, considering my
> current income. Aside from major security issues, it's just not
> important. Why not? Because my primary purpose in breathing right now
> is following Christ. He has called me to reach out to a lost and dying
> world, and to help blaze a path to bring His children yet closer to His
> side. While the path remains the same, the impediments that grow in
> that path are new and fresh, in that human perception of the world
> continually shifts. Each generation is equally lost, but the flavor of
> that lostness is ever-changing. Following that flow of culture does not
> necessarily require I stay on the cutting edge of computing. As long as
> this machine, with this OS and version, serves that calling, it's a
> waste of God's resources to invest in major changes.
[snip]
> appreciated. Imagine these coders being engaged by folks who are able to
> gracefully remind them that the primary reason computers exist in the
> first place is that they are a blessing to human life. Imagine people
> who lovingly absorb the vitriol and return peace, because coders are
> after all not mere extensions of the machines they feed. Imagine all the
> other ways you can rain down in their lives the gentle showers of
> Christian love.

Thanks for these reminders, Ed.  (I have other things running through my 
head, but right now can just say "Thanks!")

sjm