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 JOHNSONOld florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
-
-
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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 -
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
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 -
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSON -
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON






