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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

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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Needs Puddles Rainbow
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Commitment Details Worry
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Glimpse Joy People
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks 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.
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Change God Love
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
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
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
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
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hurt Looks Sides
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Go Goodbye Letting True Love
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Inspirational Winning
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience

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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