Thank You.

Hi everyone. I understand it's been quite a bit since you've heard from either Salil nor I, and the emails are starting to come in more frequently about where we've gone to, so we decided that we owe it to you, who've stuck with us through tons of ups and downs, to fill in the gaps. I've had some curveballs thrown at me in my personal life, and I took the breather away from JesusBranded to deal with them. As most of you know, Salil and I kept on with JesusBranded knowing that it wasn't going to make us rich, but we kept going because we both believed in what it was trying to do. I wasn't making much money doing it, and near the end of the summer after 30 or so unique design posts I started to unravel at the creative and financial pressures it was placing on me, as you would notice in the frequency of the re-released designs. Salil, being the more business-minded of us two, decided it would be best for the project's longevity if I took a breather and took on some mindless freelance work to earn a bit more money and hack away huge chunks from my student loans so that once I have those clear, I'd have less pressures in pursuing the vision we've laid down for JesusBranded. So that's what I did, and that's why I've been away from designing posts for this blog. It also just happened that some very draining personal issues coincided with this break that blindsided me. There were challenges and issues that became daunting enough for me to have to take a professional leave from design in general, and it also spilled into my thoughts about faith and life. During that time that I was deconstructing and rearranging my life back together I chose to do it privately, which explains my silence from the blog. As of now, I'm still freelancing and on my way to clearing my student loans, and am still on my way to re-construction. But it's going well enough. As far as our project of "Unpackaging Christianity" goes, Salil and I both agree that it will be something that we will be pursuing as long as we're alive (well, hopefully). The tough thing is that in the process of asking the questions honestly, it does get tough since there seems to be only more questions than answers, but although it derails us for a tiny bit, it's not enough to dissuade us away from Christ. We're still, on our own time and methods and life, trying to unpackage Christianity and find Jesus in it, but again, we're just for now doing it privately, if nothing else more for simplicity's sake. So, rest assured the vision of it exists, it's just not going up on this blog for now. So that brings us to you: you who's reading this, you who've emailed, you who've stuck with us from the beginning, jumped on in the middle, or just found out about us last week. You were there showing support for a bunch of naive kids, and have seen us through many instantiations of this project. You're like the parent that shows unwavering support for their one off-the-wall child who most would write off, because you wanted to bet that as weird as that kid was, he might be onto something, haha. We owe a large part of having gone as far in this vision to you, and for that Salil and I thank you. Thank you for the emails, the comments, the visits, the encouragement, the prayers, the challenges, and the friendships. You've stuck with us through a lot, and we're very grateful for you. As far as what's next, you've also been around long enough to know that with JesusBranded, you just never quite know... but whatever it may be, trust us, you'll be the first to find out. Thank you again. Much love from us to you. Sam

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thank-you 2009