by Joy Dunlap | Dec 8, 2024 | Growth, Hope, Learning and Living, Purpose
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com How can mittens make us think about Christmas – and God’s design? After years of creating quizzes on various holiday/winter topics from music to movies, hot chocolate and tea, and Winter Olympics and New Year’s Eve activities, I...
by Joy Dunlap | Oct 30, 2024 | Hope, Rescue, Tips for Living a Full Life
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com Like scary characters popping out in a haunted house, negative thoughts can burst into our minds stimulating fear, anxiety, or guilt. Mind invaders dangle into the passageways of our minds like strands of spider webs touching us,...
by Joy Dunlap | Feb 29, 2024 | Courage, Hope, Peace, Strength
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com “It would take a miracle,” the ER doctor said. Earlier, when I arrived at my brother’s apartment, flashing lights from a firetruck, EMT vans, and a police car added to the surrealness and the shock. “They’ve been working on him for...
by Joy Dunlap | Jan 23, 2024 | Encouragement, Hope, Peace, Strength
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com What do you expect this year to bring? What can you count on? We may set goals, establish resolutions, pick words of the year, and dive into new activities to try to make life better. Expectations may be that if we do X, Y might...
by Joy Dunlap | Jul 11, 2023 | Fulfillment, Hope, Peace, Rescue
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com The pain jabbing in my leg muscle and hip kept waking me up at night. When I walked, the pain radiated. Trying not to limp proved difficult in my own strength, despite my best efforts to try to focus one foot in front of the other....
by Joy Dunlap | Apr 7, 2023 | Growth, Hope, Purpose
©Joy Dunlap https://joydunlap.com My heart sank. I’d been expecting it because of the signs I had seen, but nothing prepared me for what I saw. Hundreds of tall trees had been chopped down a few blocks from me. What will rise up is difficult to envision, and it’s...
