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Choices not chance determine your destiny.

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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Disappointment Flower Loneliness
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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Laughter Pain Stress
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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Attitude Expression Eye
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
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
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
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

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

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