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This website is dedicated to the work of Rev. Joyce Kramer (1930–2022), one of America’s most prolific inspirational ministers whose influence has spread across the globe. Explore her practical teachings for living a happy, healthy, prosperous life—and check back frequently as we add new resources from the goldmine of Joyce Kramer’s spiritual writings and recordings.

Daily Blessings

Positive Emotions

I CHOOSE TO RADIATE ONLY GOOD AND CONSTRUCTIVE THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, AND ATTITUDES.

Do you know that your thoughts and feelings are contagious? They affect the people and world around you. Even if we outwardly try to conceal them, others will sense our true emotional states. Even animals and plants are affected by our attitudes toward them.

All of us can recall someone whose appearance in a group caused the mood to droop. We also can recall being in the presence of a person who imparted a calm feeling, who radiated generous, loving emotions. Such a positive person is always a powerful force for good, uplifting and blessing others. As the poet John Donne said, “No man is an island.” Not only does the world affect us, we inevitably affect our world.

Still, it is most important to realize that conflicting, petty, or negative emotions devitalize and fatigue the one who has them. So there is really a two-fold reason to refrain from them—the unpleasant effect on others and the equally unpleasant effect on the source.

Give definite thought and attention to your emotional nature. Make a conscious effort to radiate loving, positive emotions wherever you may be, wherever you may go. Be contagious in a positive way!

In the same way, let your light shine before others. (Matthew 5:16)

Radio Broadcasts

A New Year

Dial-A-Blessing Messages

The Power of Imagination

Sermons

Launch Out

Your Divine Plan

By Rev. Joyce Kramer

Transcript of a radio broadcast by Rev. Joyce Kramer, January 21, 2014.

What do you want out of life? Do you know? Few people have any real concrete picture of just what they want out of life. Consequently it seems that they live at the mercy of someone or something other than themselves. Thus we have the belief that we are the victim of things over which we have little or no control.

Each and every person is created with the ability and the power to determine his own future. Man is not at the whim of fate, luck, or chance. Neither is he created to be at the mercy of another person [ . . .]

The Joyce Kramer Ministries logo depicts a dogwood tree planted across the entrance to the church that Rev. Kramer founded in Virginia Beach. Transplanted from her brother’s property in Charlottesville, for eighteen months the tree seemed nothing more than a lifeless stick in the ground. Finally, on a Wednesday afternoon, the decision was made to dig it up, but the lawn maintenance man did not have a shovel with him. The next week, he said, he would come back and discard the dead tree. But that Sunday when Rev. Kramer arrived at church, she noticed a single leaf had appeared on the otherwise barren stick. They left the tree in place, and it grew into one of the most beautiful on the property. This flowering dogwood represents the message of Joyce Kramer Ministries: Growth is always possible; never give up.