Proverbs 24:14

Sometimes the “hustle and bustle” of our days, along with the challenges, can make it hard to maintain a positive outlook. We can feel discouraged, disappointed, or even downright cranky. A change of perspective can keep us going when our resistance is down. Focusing on worship, listening to praise music, engaging in laughter with a friend or our children, and praying for strength and determination to persevere can lift our spirits. Let’s look at a few illustrations.

How can we love our jobs without turning them into idols? Find out in this four-day reading plan where we’ll build a biblical, practical, and memorable framework for delighting in created things while delighting most in our Creator.

The journey of transformation takes us through order into disorder and out the other side into reorder. Order is good, but when we love it too much we become rigid and over-protective of what we already know. Disorder busts all of that up and breaks us open enough to be teachable and receptive. Reorder is the wisdom we're able to receive on the other side of order and disorder.

Joy seems elusive when doubt, fear, and hardships bury us in weariness. Though the world shifts beneath us, God and his gift of joy remain constant. Join Danette Joy Crawford on this seven-day journey of learning to abide in the Lord’s strength, persevere in every season, and anchor your life in God’s abundant joy. Joy surrounds you as you uncover God’s good plan for your life.