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Forgiveness 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

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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Needs Puddles Rainbow
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
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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Eye People Rushing
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
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
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
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
Laughter 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
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Inspirational Laughter Positive
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
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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Commitment Details Worry

Forgiveness 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.

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Forgiveness 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.

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