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 JOHNSONWe 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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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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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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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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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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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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