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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

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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Bored Dull Life Too Short
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Answers Inspirational Winning
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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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.
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Caring Song Sunset
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.
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Dream Faith Prayer
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
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Codependent Eye Mean
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
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
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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Children Joy Mother
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
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Gears Optimism Patience
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Blessing Growing Secret
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
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
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.
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Disappointment Flower Loneliness
Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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Disaster Smile Time
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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Kids Necks Pain
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
The most important things in your home are people.
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Home Important People
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
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
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.
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Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind

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