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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

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Reading Reality Teaching
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Principles Tickets
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
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

Needs Puddles Rainbow
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Codependent Eye Mean
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Kneeling Prayer Standing
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Encouragement Eye Heart
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Joy Mother
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Causes Encouragement
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Grudge Hands Wise
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
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
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dessert First Food Loss Weight
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Baby Diapers Likes
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Gears Optimism Patience

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