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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

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Easter Friday People
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Chips Chocolate Ice Cream
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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Anniversary Love Valentine's Day
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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Day Looks Missing One
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
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Hate Principles Tickets
Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Advertising Faces Philosophy
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
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
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 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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Glimpse Joy People
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
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Inspirational Life Love
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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Boxing Heaven Want
I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
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Answers Causes Encouragement
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

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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