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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

Barbara Johnson

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Kids Necks Pain
Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Codependent Eye Mean
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
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Blessing Growing Secret
All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Behind Heaven Live Touch
I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Age Businessman Businesswoman Hundred Live Thinking
Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
BARBARA JOHNSON

Forgotten Naked Way
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
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Dessert First Food Loss Weight
Violets are God’s apology for February.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Apology February Violet
Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
BARBARA JOHNSON

Christian Opportunity Worry
Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
BARBARA JOHNSON

Bored Dull Life Too Short
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
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
BARBARA JOHNSON

Inevitable Misery Pain
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

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