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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

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
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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Laughter Pain Stress
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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Dream Life Littles
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
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
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.
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Reading Reality Teaching
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Faith Prayer Rain
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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Needs Puddles Rainbow
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
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
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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Attitude Kindness Sneakers
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
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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Joy Light Looks
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
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean

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.

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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.

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