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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.

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
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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Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
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
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
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
As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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Eye People Rushing
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
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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Circumstances Love Safety
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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Children Hope Out Work
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
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Chance Choices Destiny
True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Go Goodbye Letting True Love
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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Change God Love
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Hurt Looks Sides
We can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
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Heart Laughter Lonely
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
The most important things in your home are people.
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Home Important People
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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Better Days Next Remember
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time

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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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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