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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.

Barbara Johnson

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
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
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
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Inspirational Laughter Positive
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
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Growing Inspirational Jobs
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Arrangement Dies Humor
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
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
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
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Behind Heaven Live Touch
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
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
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Dream Faith Prayer
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process

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