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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

Barbara Johnson

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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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
We can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
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Heart Laughter Lonely
Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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Day Looks Missing One
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
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
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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Believe Forgiving Joy
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
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
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Circumstances Love Safety
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

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