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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

Barbara Johnson

The most important things in your home are people.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Home Important People
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
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
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Growing Inspirational Jobs
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Forgotten Naked Way
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
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
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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Caring Song Sunset
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
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
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
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
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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Glimpse Joy People
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
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
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
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
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
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Dessert First Food Loss Weight
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
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
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
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
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

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