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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

As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Eye People Rushing
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Codependent Eye Mean
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Circumstances Love Safety
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Color Mind
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
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
The most important things in your home are people.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Home Important People
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
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Blessing Growing Secret
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change God Love
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Boxing Heaven Want
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Arrangement Dies Humor

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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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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