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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

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Encouragement Eye Heart
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
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Behind Heaven Live Touch
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
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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Caring Song Sunset
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
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.
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Change God Love
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor

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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