Does Your Soul Feel Its Worth? How to Experience True Christmas Joy

Does Your Soul Feel Its Worth? How to Experience True Christmas Joy

From Fierce Calling by Doris Swift

December 23, 2025 · 8 min

About this episode

Doris Swift reflects on the true meaning of Christmas joy amidst personal challenges and loss.

Hey, friend! Welcome to the Fierce Calling Podcast, where I usually talk with guests who are taking action where their passion, compassion, and conviction intersect, but not this week. This is Christmas week, and I am replaying an episode I recorded back in 2022, Are You Ready for Christmas? A Special Christmas Episode with a Christmas Poem & Prayer . It was the year of Hurricane Ian, and our home flooded for the first time. Little did I know that two years later, we’d experience yet another house flood. But that first flood? It was a devastating event, but it was also a defining moment, because I would learn what true joy is all about and experience Christmas in a more profound way than ever before. When all the fanfare is stripped away, what are we left with? We’re left with the only thing that really matters in the first place–family and a Savior who is Christ the Lord. That first flood experience was taxing, emotionally and physically, but you know what? Not spiritually, because it was also the year I was in the midst of writing my Bible study, Surrender the Joy Stealers: Rediscover the Jesus Joy in You , and although I didn’t know how much I personally was going to need…

People in this episode

Host: Doris Swift

Topics covered

  • Christmas joy
  • spiritual growth
  • personal experiences
  • loss and mourning
  • faith

Keywords

  • Christmas
  • joy
  • Hurricane Ian
  • faith
  • loss
  • family
  • spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Surrender the Joy Stealers: Rediscover the Jesus Joy in You

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