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

Barbara Johnson

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

Better Days Next Remember
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Attitude Color Mind
Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Apology February Violet
Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Encouragement Eye Heart
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Easy Labor Motherhood
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
Change is a process not an event.
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Change Events Process
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
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
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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Reading Reality Teaching
My karma just ran over my dogma.
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Dogma Karma Ran
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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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.
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Heart Laughter Lonely
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
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Grudge Hands Wise
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Lasts Speed Today
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
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.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Giving Kindness Peanut Butter
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
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
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Kneeling Prayer Standing
When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Children Hope Out Work
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
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch

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