Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Jayopsis: 20 years- Pt. 3 The 'Lean' Years (2014-2017)

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On Sunday night, November 10, 2024, I’ll be celebrating a milestone that I never could have imagined when I first started this journey: 20 years of blogging on Jayopsis.com!

What began as a small corner of the internet to share my thoughts on faith, life, and culture has grown into something that has blessed me beyond words. Over the past two decades, I’ve been privileged to connect with so many of you who have followed along, commented, shared, and even challenged my writings.

As I prepare to mark this special occasion, I want to invite YOU to join the celebration!

I have already received some responses- but here is a guide that may help you- pick one or more questions and send me your response- I hope to get some from out of the country as well. 

The picture in this post is 2014 while I was signing some books (I was in the 50 Years of Faith book for Alabama football, written by Wayne Atcheson).

I had a lot going on in this 3 year period- I was writing a devotional every day for my Wordpress site (actually I would write 3 on Sunday and then try to stay 2 days ahead of my post date with content- if AI existed in those days, it would have helped me!)

The BCS bass team was getting better and took a lot of time.

Even though my frequency was down, the variety of posts were getting a lot of clicks. I wasn't doing any series.

The first series in that period was 'Christmas in Isaiah" in 2015.

In 2016, I reposted the Gospel Confrontation series and got a big response to a series of posts on "The Voltron Force" flag football team we had in Tuscaloosa. I started a Voltron facebook page back then and they page gets a ridiculous number of likes even to this day- people LOVE Voltron.

In 2017, I wrote a post that went viral:

How We Often Get Matt. 18 Wrong

This post gets read all the time, even 7 years later.

Anyway, excited to be getting feedback for the Nov. celebration- and a lot of just 'congrats'- here are a few:

20 years ...well done!  thx for all you done for the Brakefields and also sharing a lot of great Friday nights at BCS.....no place better...all the best for another 20 years ....Tom Brakefield 

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Congratulations on 20 years.  It's amazing how fast time has flown.

 

I have such great memories of Sunday School at CPC, but my favorite is the CPA football team singing "A Mighty Fortress is Our God".  The locker room would shake!

 

Your three wonderful daughters are the best legacy a Dad could ever hope for.

 

Best wishes,

 

Hedge Burt

Nashville, TN

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