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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

Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Joy Mother
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
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Better Days Next Remember
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
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Laughter Pain Stress
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Heart Laughter Lonely
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easter Friday People
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Past Regret
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Lasts Speed Today
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgotten Naked Way
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Eye People Rushing
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Change God Love

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.

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