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.
BARBARA JOHNSONKids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Change is a process not an event.
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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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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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.
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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