A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSONA lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSONEverybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
BARBARA JOHNSONChange is a process not an event.
BARBARA JOHNSONTrue love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
BARBARA JOHNSONMotherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSONThe joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSONKids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe 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 JOHNSONAllow 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 JOHNSONWe 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.
BARBARA JOHNSONThe secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSONPrayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
BARBARA JOHNSON