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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Barbara Johnson

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
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Attitude Color Mind
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dream Life Littles
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Commitment Details Worry
No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Baby Diapers Likes
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
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Answers Causes Encouragement
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
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

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

Home Important People
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
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inspirational Life Love
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
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Kneeling Prayer Standing

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