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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

Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Grudge Hands Wise
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
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
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Principles Tickets
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
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
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
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dessert First Food Loss Weight
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Christian Opportunity Worry
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Arrangement Dies Humor
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgotten Naked Way
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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Day Looks Missing One
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Heart Laughter Lonely

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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