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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Barbara Johnson

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Faith Prayer
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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Glimpse Joy People
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Hope Out Work
Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change God Love
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Disappointment Flower Loneliness
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Joy Light Looks
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

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