Ask yourself if the following words are descriptive of you today: energetic, enthusiastic, happy, alert, interesting. Are they characteristic of your life? If so, you are a joy to be around. Your life gives a plus quality to everyone you meet.
If those words are not descriptive of you, then how about words like dull, lazy, boring, tired, sad? People avoid others with these qualities because they add gloom to one’s day, and who wants gloom? To cultivate these negative qualities is to deny the wonderful God potential that is within you.
Watch yourself today—not only in your words and actions, but in your thoughts and feelings as well. Be that energetic, enthusiastic, happy, alert, and interesting child of God you were created to be. You’ll have a fun day!
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.