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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

Notes of Joy

I LISTEN TO THE DIVINE CONDUCTOR DEEP WITHIN. I HEAR THE PERFECT NOTE FOR ME, AND I PLAY IT WITH CONFIDENCE AND JOY!

How well do you listen? Many are good listeners. In fact, when it comes to our favorite kind of music in life, we may listen too well and too long. We become lulled by the efforts of others and forget that we too must strike our note eventually. It is well to listen. We learn much. But we must prepare to join in and be heard as well.

Will your note be one of joy? Of enthusiasm and achievement? Will it be filled with hope and cheer? Or will it be melancholy, disappointing, and discouraging? Will it cause pain to the ones tuned in to us?

We are adding to the symphony of the universe daily, even momently. While we each may choose different instruments through which to express ourselves, they can blend together if we have one theme in mind—the theme of the allness and wholeness of our Creator.

Sour notes come from error thoughts and feelings. If we first listen to the perfect music within, we will be spared the discordant notes in the outer.

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! (Psalm 33:3)

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.