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All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
Barbara Johnson
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Barbara Johnson
Age: 61 †
Born: 1947
Born: October 4
Died: 2009
Died: August 27
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Massachusetts
Barbara Ellen Johnson
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Attitude is the mind's paintbrush it can color any situation.
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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.
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I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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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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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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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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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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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Winners see an answer for every problem losers see a problem in every answer!
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