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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

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

Caring Song Sunset
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Faith Prayer
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
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
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
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
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
The most important things in your home are people.
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Home Important People
Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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Day Looks Missing One
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
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 are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
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

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.

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