How To Find Joy On Hard Days: Free Joy Calendar 2026

I can’t stop thinking about what a woman tells me over dinner last week: “I can’t explain how it’s changed my life, Ann: Only when I keep counting gifts, do I learn how to keep counting it all joy.” I set my glass of water down on the table like she’s just  dropped her mic.  This is God-Math: Unless you’re counting your gifts and gratitudes, you don’t know how to count it all joy in your trials.  This is God Math:   Unless you’re counting your gifts and gratitudes, you don’t know how to count it all joy in your trials.  Headlines talk of attacks and wars and AI domination, you can feel it, like we are all on some edge of shifting, tectonic change, and who knows how things will unfold? Someone I love painfully struggles to recover from a devastating stroke. Someone I love doesn’t call anymore and silence can slice the deepest. Someone I love is in the midst of a crisis and their whole world just detonated and how do you love well when things seem anything but well?  I just confess: Trials have this way of making your mental math all wrong, because trials twist how, […]