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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

Barbara Johnson

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Joy Light Looks
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
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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Hate Past Regret
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
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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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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.
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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
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
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
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
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
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
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
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
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Inspirational Winning

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