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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

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Circumstances Love Safety
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
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Inevitable Misery Pain
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
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Joy Light Looks
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
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!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Expression Eye
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 secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Blessing Growing Secret
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Gears Optimism Patience
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.
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Believe Forgiving Joy
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Easter Friday People
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

Caring Song Sunset
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Encouragement Eye Heart
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
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Boxing Heaven Want

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