Stick A Geranium In Your Hat And Be Happy (Ay Insp - Johnson)

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Summary: Testimonies touch your life.
Review: Dear Barbara Johnson and Larry,
I had never heard of you until after I got delivered from homosexuality. What an uplifting testimony you have. My parents had listen to your tape before I got delivered and it helped them keep there faith through what they went through with me. Then when I got delivered they gave me the tape. I thank God for that tape it was such an encouragement. I had felt like I was the only person that had gone through it and had been delivered. I know many people cant really understand how or why I chose homosexuality but I dont feel sorry for me anymore I have it all now. Giving your life up for God and willing to let him change your life no matter what the situation is is the best choices anyone could make. I would love to here your sons testimony from his point of view. Yours is very awesome. Thank you and God bless you for sharing it.
Foster,

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Summary: Testimonies touch your life.
Review: I have read and re-read this book many times during my husband's fight with cancer and his recent death. So many things have happened to my family but when I need guidance and uplifting spirit I can find it in one of Barbara's books. Thank you and keep on writing!

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Summary: Help for the Weary
Review: I have read and re-read this book many times during my husband's fight with cancer and his recent death. So many things have happened to my family but when I need guidance and uplifting spirit I can find it in one of Barbara's books. Thank you and keep on writing!

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Summary: How dare you be a homosexual!
Review: I read so much about her down to earth humor and wit that I picked her up. You have to be really right wing, and realy christian to truly enjoy her book. And if you are, you will enjoy her breezy depictions of her marriage, identify with her horror at discovering her son has succumbed to the `homosexual lifestyle' (as the blurb puts it.) and egg her on all the way, upbeat despite all her travails. If you are slightly more iiberal, you will question the very basis of this book, think her humor extremely offensive (he cannot be gay, he is a christian) and believe there are many people who have lead much more difficult lives than her, who do not try and make a book out of it.

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Summary: God sent Barbara Johnson to me during my crisis
Review: If you have ever had a real crisis in your life and you don't know if you'll ever laugh again, this book is for you. You will laugh and you will cry......and you will heal. God used Barbara Johnson to meet me in the reality of my pain.

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Summary: The Turning Point for Me
Review: In 1991, I had been depressed 7 out of every 10 years for the last 30 years and was grieving for my lost business that was a 1987 stockmarket "correction" casualty. Depression was a way of life for me, though, so that business loss wasn't much worse than what I'd been through before, only this time I read Barbara's book and decided that, if she had faced adversities far beyond mine and could find things to be grateful for, I could pick myself up and find out what was left of my life. I could "Put a Geranium in My Hat" and determine that misery was not going to be my option. I praise Barbara for not condoning her child's choices, but upholding scripture and giving him the anchor of a mother who believes what she says she believes. Now I'm a widow and Barbara's life story set the example for tending my husband for 3 years and for turning to God in all circumstances. Nobody said it would be easy but God is with us. Keep it up, Barbara! See you at the town dump tonight!

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Summary: The Turning Point for Me
Review: In 1991, I had been depressed 7 out of every 10 years for the last 30 years and was grieving for my lost business that was a 1987 stockmarket "correction" casualty. Depression was a way of life for me, though, so that business loss wasn't much worse than what I'd been through before, only this time I read Barbara's book and decided that, if she had faced adversities far beyond mine and could find things to be grateful for, I could pick myself up and find out what was left of my life. I could "Put a Geranium in My Hat" and determine that misery was not going to be my option. I praise Barbara for not condoning her child's choices, but upholding scripture and giving him the anchor of a mother who believes what she says she believes. Now I'm a widow and Barbara's life story set the example for tending my husband for 3 years and for turning to God in all circumstances. Nobody said it would be easy but God is with us. Keep it up, Barbara! See you at the town dump tonight!

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Summary: Encouraging!
Review: In yet another uplifting work by author Barbara Johnson, we are led page by page through so many of lies challenges, and through her words we are taught to look circumstances in the eye and chose to be happy.
In this work, Barbara teaches us how to release the joy within us and use God's promises to fill our souls with laughter instead of sorrow and grief.
Always an uplifting read can be found in all of Ms. Johnson's works and this book is no exception. Indeed life is tough, but you are tougher, if you only chose to be.
Barbara shows you how and encourages you along the way.
Shirley Johnson
Senior Reviewer
MidWest Book Review

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Summary: Happy but not Gay
Review: Johnson lumps in "the gay lifestyle" with "alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual perversion, and any number of terrible problems that can afflict a family" (Pg 172). If you find this appalling, then avoid the book because there's a lot more of this.

If that doesn't bother you, then you might find some inspiration here. Clearly many have. If you prefer anecdotes/stories to bullet point advice on how to pick yourself up, this is the book for you.

But to be on the safe side, if you're looking for a role model in dealing with homosexuality in your family, do look beyond this author. While many believe that homosexuality can be "cured" with prayer, it is more widely held (by the medical community amongst others) that this is not a condition that can be cured any more than blue eyes or black hair. Be sure your approach doesn't do lasting damage to your child and your family.


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Summary: Stick a Geranium In Your A**
Review: Sorry, Babs. You can't call yourself a Christian and also be so judgmental about your son or the so-called "homosexual lifestyle." If we're throwing labels around, we might just as well call it "the heterosexual lifestyle." Gimme a break; it's 2004, lady.