Words of Gratitude

So, I feel the need to write this update. Credit fresh conviction though part of this pondering has been brewing for the past few months.

Assessing the past few years of His Girl Fryday, I admit I have not been true to the original intent of this project. For over five years (2015-2020), I tailored my posts to the ‘marketplace minister’ discussing matters relative to vocational identity and workplace troubleshooting. We tackled topics pertaining to influence, team building, Scripture as best practice, work as worship and spiritual warfare, even applications and tools to simplify the hustle and bustle.

But for the last few years, well, if you’ve been following our family’s story, you understand how the epicenter of theme and trope had to change. In fact, this whole decade has been downright crazy starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, health complications with Everly late 2020/early 2021, and, of course, the Juby Journey from summer 2021 to fall 2022. In between all this, you had job transition, EMDR therapy, home remodeling, PTSD, and plenty of car trauma just to name a few. Needless to say, our core narrative has been compelled to adapt. And for whatever reason, I feel apologetic I haven’t been churning out more work-centric content to help build a bridge for the bivocational as our tagline proudly states.

Part of me has wondered if I should retire the endeavor and/or start a separate site to be a home to non-vocational musings, kind of like a catch-all to anything outside the His Girl Fryday umbrella. Honestly, I lean towards this approach and will be praying into a new name in the spirit of simplifying our purpose and returning to our humble beginnings.

Side note: For all you potential newbies out there, His Girl Fryday was birthed from a place of helping ministers balance work and church responsibilities and matured over time to include all vocationals as our biblical understanding of spiritual gifts broadened.

At the very least, I want to return to our premise and add fresh layers of insight to our library of resources. While the majority of 2021-22 posts likely lacked a direct impact into your personal life, Lys and I hope more of what we create moving forward will produce new life and motivation into the fabric of your day-to-day. Perhaps you can join me in reviewing the past two years’ worth of content through the lens of self and social awareness, specifically knowing how to journey people through their dark days and how to relate to those struggling with grief. To be fair, I’m sure there are many ways we can corporately receive the tenor of our writings outside the filters society demands, primarily relevance and prevalence.

All that said, I want to thank you as an audience for tolerating our randomness and sporadicness but more importantly, allowing us to take these recent years to share our hearts and journeys with you. The content clean-up will soon begin as new ideas take root and new series are conceived. No question, we count ourselves blessed as messengers equipped with words as arrows for such a time as this. We look forward to the future of this project and others on the verge of commencement as our family life continues to heal and settle.

Thanks again for being awesome ambassadors in your spheres.