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My karma just ran over my dogma.

Barbara Johnson

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
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
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
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Kindness Sneakers
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
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Joy Mother
My karma just ran over my dogma.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dogma Karma Ran
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
Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Better Days Next Remember
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Hate Principles Tickets
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Believe Forgiving Joy
Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Arrangement Dies Humor
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
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Baby Diapers Likes

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