by Joyce Zook | Jan 26, 2026 | Love Your Home, Love Your Life, Love Your Marriage, Marriage
Love is always hopeful. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT God says not to have a pessimistic outlook but instead to focus on what is good and true. I thought I had a pessimistic personality – the type that sees the glass as half empty and that I couldn’t change. Complaining...
by Joyce Zook | Jan 6, 2026 | Love Your Home, Love Your Life, Love Your Marriage
Updated December 2025, Originally posted in May 2019 In a couple of weeks, I will undergo my fourth major surgery in eight years, and it’s challenging to feel happy about it. When I’m in one of those blah moods or dealing with pain, I turn to my Happy List. I also...
by Joyce Zook | Dec 19, 2025 | Love the Holidays
A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white, hard candy, white to symbolize the...
by Joyce Zook | Dec 16, 2025 | Love the Holidays, Love Your Home, Love Your Life, Love Your Marriage
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by Joyce Zook | Dec 2, 2025 | Free Resources, Love the Holidays, Love Your Home, Love Your Life, Love Your Marriage, Marriage
Updated in December 2025, initially posted in December 2021. What I expected to happen at Christmas didn’t happen. My high expectations ultimately ruined the holiday. There was no joy or peace as we gathered to give thanks and celebrate the birth of Christ....