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This world would be a better place if we had more love, kindness, and generosity. Invitation to Joy encourages just that. It demonstrates with warm, true-life stories that, by reaching out to others with love and kindness, the reciprocal returns are multiplied. However, the book also points to a deeper purpose, a more lasting joy, which has a spiritual component and will see you through the darkest of life's valleys. If you want to be encouraged and uplifted, then this is the book for you!

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"""In Invitation to Joy, author John Murray offers winsome insights into navigating, with grace and empathy, the complexities of our world..... John has written with wisdom this heartfelt call to action, urging us to prioritize love, kindness, and respect in our interactions..... In a fractured world, Invitation to Joy shows us the path to a life of purpose, meaning, and hope."" - Dr. Ron Unruh, Author and Artist ""This book Invitation to Joy is a thoughtful, honest, practical, and highly inspirational overview of the realities of life on earth and beyond..... Tough issues and hard questions are not avoided, providing credibility, authenticity, substance, encouragement, joy and hope."" - Dr. Norman Ickert ""In a convulsing world of pain and sorrow, inequality, injustice, violence and corruption, John Murray invites us to pursue joy-filled, purposeful living. John's insightful reflections help us see the positives in all-too-often negative circumstances."" - David Daniels, Freelance Writer and Reviewer ""Invitation to Joy, by its very title, invites us, reminds us, that the choice is ours as to how we respond to what life throws at us. The words contained within this book are encouraging, supporting, and uplifting. Oh, how we need these words today!"" - Rob Ogilvie, Executive Minister Canadian Baptists of Western Canada."

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"John has been married to his wife Rita for over 61years. They have two children, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Originally from the U.K. they now reside in White Rock, British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada.Educated in England, John went on to study theology in Birmingham, U.K. and in Toronto, Canada. His life experience has been in business, in journalism, in pastoral ministry and overseas missions.For the last twenty years before retiring he served as the Executive Director for Eurovangelism Canada, a mission working in Eastern Europe. He travelled extensively from Russia in the north to Albania in the south. Some of the stories in the book, ""Miracles: Coincidence or Divine Intervention"" are from his days travelling in Eastern Europe. His many years of speaking engagements took him to ten countries, which included Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Caribbean.Since retiring in 2006 John has concentrated on his writing and is full-time Caregiver to his wife Rita. Invitation to Joy is his sixth book."

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