Barbara Johnson's approach to life is positive, uplifting, therapeutic and fun. Barbara Johnson is far from being a cock-eyed optimist―blind to life's grief and disappointment. In fact, her entire ministry of joy and encouragement began in the "slimy cesspool" of her own pain. She is a "clear-eyed" optimist. And that's why her laughter is so infectious and her widom rings so true in this joy-giving book, which offers giggles and guidance to help you:

• shore up a sinking self-esteem
• reach the other side of your grief
• weather your stress and get rid of your guilt
• restore the joys of motherhood
• repair broken relationships with your children
• learn to live with your illness
• cultivate your patience―even when you just don't think you can wait
• sustain an effective prayer life
• make peace with aging―and go for healthy maturity

"Almost everyone needs a splash of joy to get through the mess, to get cleaned off and get sweetened up―refreshed and ready to go again," Barbara Johnson says.

From all of your favorite Women of Faith(R)

This lighthearted and inspirational collection of brand new devotions shares a message of grace with the warmth and wisdom fans have come to expect from Women of Faith(R).

• Boundless Grace offers a love that has no limits, a spacious freedom for the woman who trusts in the Lord every day.
• Unfathomable Grace reaches deep into the heart, showing that wherever you go God is always there ahead of you.
• Immeasurable Grace is the overflowing, never-ending fullness of life and joy kept in the heart of God for his children.
• Eternal Grace shelters us through the storms of life and walks with us even through the valley of the shadow of death.

Together, forty devotionals told in the authors' diverse voices give a compelling view of why and how we can find infinite grace in Christ.

"Infinite Grace "includes a special tribute section remembering Barbara Johnson. Sheila Walsh, Luci Swindoll, Mary Graham, Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Thelma Wells, Carol Kent, Sandi Patty, and others remind you that even if time is scarce in the busyness of life, God's "grace "never is

Created by best-selling humorist Barbara Johnson, this is the place to put your own thoughts of hope, gladness, and love--with Barbara's zany bits of joy, laughter and survival tips to inspire you along the way.

"Laughter from Heaven" is a joyful reminder of the wonderful life awaiting us in heaven. With her humorous approach to all life's circumstances, Barbara wants her readers to catch a light-hearted look at the hereafter.

Filled with hope and encouragement, this book is sure to become a favorite of many women who long for a sense of joy in the midst of everyday struggles. In classic Barbara Johnson style, these hilarious pages will show you how to put life's trials into heavenly perspective. She hopes you will find encouragement through your difficulties, renewal for your spiritual doldrums, and laughter when you think you'll never laugh again. Similar in nature to her best-selling title "Humor Me," this delightful look at heaven reveals it as a place that will be not only without pain, but will actually be fun!

Jokes, stories, cartoons and Barbara's famous one-liners make this another joy-filled book that all her fans will love.

Laugh your way through the joyful misadventures of motherhood.

The Queen of Encouragement is back and this time her joy box―or is it a laundry basket?―is spilling over with giggles and guffaws that will warm the heart and tickle the funny bone of mothers of every generation. Barbara Johnson's collection of hilarious jokes, zany cartoons, and inspiring stories commemorate the fun and frustration found in every stage of motherhood, from:

• labor room to laundry room
• diapers to driver's licenses
• full house to empty nest
• PTA to AARP

If you are a mom―or" have" a mom―this little book provides an uplifting gift of love and laughter that will energize your day and brighten your attitude as you join Barbara in the fun-filled hunt for humor wherever it's hidden in Mama Land (which, as Barb points out, is just one letter away from Lala Land).

Best-selling inspirational humor author Barbara Johnson combines fun and inspiration in a new pick-me-up book that's chocked full of her patented wit and wisdom, love and laughter and comfort and grace. A primer for those new to Barbara's message of hope, "Humor Me" is a must have addition to one's current library of "geranium lady" books. This "best of" collection contains side splitting jokes, one-liners worth remembering, silly stories, and chuckle-worthy cartoons on topics such as men, parenting, and aging.

Books by this popular speaker and writer have sold more than 3.5 million units to date, a credit to her ability to meet the needs of women everywhere who need a dose of humor and hope.

Topics: Men Motherhood Hard-times Aging

Barbara Johnson's ministry to the broken hearted has rescued thousands from the cesspools of life and helped the hopeless learn to laugh again. Now, sharing outrageous humor, rib-tickling insights, and inspiring, real-life examples, she shows you how to put life's trials into heavenly perspective. With Barb's zany humor leading the way like a geranium bobbing in a parade leader's hat, you'll be able to face each new challenge with grace―maybe even a giggle. Soon you'll have your sights set on eternity and your ears tuned to the heavenly trumpeter's frequency as you, too, joyously await that day when "He's gonna toot, and we're gonna scoot "

"Barbara Johnson's writing may not make us thinner, but it sure does make us easier to live with She has a way of removing a lot of the grit and grind from our crankcase so we can enjoy the trip from earth to heaven without a breakdown." ―Charles Swindoll, President Dallas Theological Seminary

Between the years of childbearing and grandparenting, a women has a lot to jungle! Barbara Johnson shows how the road from marriage to menopause is filled with more than a few potholes…but provides women with more than enough hope and humor to make it through the journey.

God’s Precious Jewels Are Crystallized Tears contains stories of turning hardship into gems of inspiration and joy from America’s favourite author of inspirational humor, Barbara Johnson – The Geranium Lady. God’s Precious Jewels Are Crystallized Tears contains the stories of 14 extraordinary women as they journeyed through incredible hardship to become sparkling jewels of joy and encouragement to others. Best-selling author Barbara Johnson includes her own story of grief turned into blessing, with her signature touch of hope and humor. Woven throughout these inspiring stories are the stories of real gemstones – their creation and their traditional meanings.

For women only, this is one of Barbara Johnson's most unique books. With her zany collection of observations about "life between the Blue Lagoon and Golden Pond," Barbara jumps right in, showing women how to survive growing older with courage and joy.

Laughter laced, reality based, and just a little bit off the wall, this book is vintage Barbara Johnson―a gift of hilarity and hope from America's queen of encouragement.

Barbara Johnson has staked her life and her ministry on the healing power of a positive outlook. But here she zeroes directly in on the therapeutic benefit of a smile, a giggle, and a good, old-fashioned belly laugh. She insists that laughing in the face of adversity is not a form of denial, but a proven tool for managing stress, coping with pain, and maintaining hope. And to prove her point, she presents this funnybone-tickling, heart-touching laugh manual―packed with hard-earned wisdom . . . and custom designed to nudge you (giggling) down the road to positive living.

Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America.
Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, and Massachusetts with varying degrees of success.

Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America.
Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Colorado, and Massachusetts with varying degrees of success. It studies core issues which produce problems in mainstreaming midwives, including the tensions between the social activist midwifery movement and midwives' professionalization projects, "renegade" midwives who practice outside of state protocols, and home-to-hospital transport.
The conclusion describes the barriers to the growth and prospering of American midwifery and efforts to overcome them, focusing deeply on "why midwives matter" to American birthgiving women and why midwives should be the primary caregivers in this country for pregnancy and birth. Mainstreaming Midwives is essential reading for every midwife and midwifery supporter, and for social scientists seeking to understand how marginalized professionals work to move into the mainstream.

In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously excluded from the academic canon. Indeed, the last book Johnson completed before her death was "Mary Shelley and Her Circle," published here for the first time. Shelley was thus the subject for Johnson's beginning in feminist criticism and also for her end.
It is surprising to recall that when Johnson wrote her essay, only two of Shelley's novels were in print, critics and scholars having mostly dismissed her writing as inferior and her career as a side effect of her famous husband's. Inspired by groundbreaking feminist scholarship of the seventies, Johnson came to pen yet more essays on Shelley over the course of a brilliant but tragically foreshortened career. So much of what we know and think about Mary Shelley today is due to her and a handful of scholars working just decades ago.
In this volume, Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman have united all of Johnson's published and unpublished work on Shelley alongside their own new, insightful pieces of criticism and those of two other peers and fellow pioneers in feminist theory, Mary Wilson Carpenter and Cathy Caruth. The book thus evolves as a conversation amongst key scholars of shared intellectual inclinations while closing the circle on Johnson's life and her own fascination with the life and circle of another woman writer, who, of course, also happened to be the daughter of a founder of modern feminism.

If Barbara Johnson has brought comfort to thousands of women, it s not because her life has been comfortable. Barbara has known more heartbreak than most of us ever will. But that is why her encouragement truly inspires, why her humor makes us smile, and why her insightfulness can move us to tears. Through thick and thin, Barbara has held onto God--and so she is uniquely qualified to help us see how God holds onto us and won t let go, no matter what life dishes out. The sixty selections in this book represent the cream of Barbara s devotional crop. Kick your shoes off, settle back, and unwind. Or give this book to someone you know who would enjoy a chuckle, a reflective pause, an 'Aha ' moment, maybe even a tear. Insights and encouragement lie within--and more than a few grins "

Best-selling author and speaker Barbara Johnson is famous for seeing and celebrating the bright side of life s ups-and-downs. Now, in her first-ever devotional, she dares you to lighten up and enjoy life to the hilt. As Barbara says, 'You ve got to hone your ability to fling a smile a mile. Sure as anything, it ll boomerang right back to you, more accurately each time you toss it out.' Barbara knows life is far too serious not to laugh. In 60 wise, witty devotions--salted with humor and peppered with the madcap illustrations of syndicated cartoonist John McPherson--she helps you perfect the art of the well-aimed chuckle. Boomerang Joy is the perfect tonic for when you feel tired or worn out--or when you just want a good laugh and some heartfelt encouragement. Barbara Johnson s fun-filled insights will help you revel in your relationship with God and spread the joy of knowing His love. Just like a boomerang, joy that s flung out far and wide will smack right back to you "

Boomerang blessings.

That's what Barbara Johnson calls the encouraging feedback she has received over the years from readers whose lives have been impacted by the message of this million-copy bestseller. If you need a fresh breath of joy in your life, this book is just the prescription for you.

With the wit of an Erma Bombeck, Barbara Johnson helps you to look for "life's little sparkles," even in the midst of your most crippling sorrows. No stranger to suffering herself, Barbara's experiences have equipped her with the credentials to help others work through their own suffering. In spite of her difficulties, Barbara has learned that while pain is inevitable to us all, we can choose to pick the flowers instead of the weeds.

Barbara will teach you how to release that bubble of joy within you―to claim God's promise to "fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy." ―Job 8:21 (TLB)

Model Your Life on the Great Women of the Bible Who Trusted God and Found Him Faithful. Studies of 6 women from the Bible---each with 6 sessions---for personal reflection or group study. Through intriguing stories of biblical women, the Women of the Bible study series helps readers see how God wants to work in their lives. Questions and activities are designed to encourage personal application, understanding, and prayer, and to foster interaction within study groups. Each chapter includes 8 sections: Opening Narrative, Discussing the Story, Sharing Your Story, After Hours, Setting the Stage, Behind the Scenes, Prayer Meetings, and Words to Remember. The leader s guide makes it easy to facilitate weekly Bible studies to nurture knowledge of Scripture and a sense of God s presence in life. Esther: a Jewish orphan who became queen of Persia and saved her people---Choose to be a woman God delights to use no matter what the circumstances Mary: a young woman who said yes to God s incredible plan for her life---Obedience can be a joyous choice that is blessed by God Deborah: a leader of Israel when God s people were in a period of great decline---Faith, courage, and devotion toward God have a powerful impact in a woman s life Hannah: a woman who poured out her heart to God and received a miracle---Understand the wisdom and importance of committing dreams to God Sarah: a woman of faith whose insecurities sometimes got the better of her---Face life s uncertainties, move beyond fear, and enjoy a faith-filled relationship with God Ruth: a daughter-in-law who left her own people out of loyalty to Naomi---Trust the Lord through faith and action in difficult times"

Plant a Geranium in Your Cranium chronicles Barbara Johnson’s recent battle with cancer. It is the inspiring story of her journey through a year of illness, frustration – and abundant humor. Barbara combines her own experiences with dozens of hilarious anecdotes and cartoons sent to her by others who share her belief in the healing power of laughter.

Laugh your way through the maturity maze with the Geranium Lady

A 2001 cancer diagnosis sent best-selling author and beloved Woman of Faith(R) speaker Barbara Johnson "crying to God about the way He was bringing my life to a close."

In this, Barbara's "fourth" "last book" of zany joy and senior silliness, she celebrates still laughing and still growing older by poking fun at time-sensitive topics ranging from again (I'm ready to meet my Maker . . . but He's apparently tied up with a previous engagement) to forgetfulness (Of course I'll smile for the camera . . . just as soon as I find my teeth).

"Humor Me, I'm Over the Hill" is the Geranium Lady's irresistibly funny appeal to her fellow adventurers in aging to "live happily to one hundred―or die trying "

With an attitude of love and a heart that's overflowing with joy, Barbara Johnson helps you learn not only to endure life, but to enjoy it

"Pack Up Your Gloomees" is filled with bittersweet stories of Barbara's journey through the minefields of life and her wise and encouraging responses to letters from hurting parents. Best of all, each chapter ends with a day-brightening, laughter-packed collection of Gloomee Busters. She lovingly lights the way for others by sharing her own struggles with questions such as:

• How do I cope when my kids break my heart?
• How can I let go of my loved one?
• How can I forgive and forget what was done to me?
• After love, what's the most important thing parents can give their kids?
• Will I ever laugh again? How will this pain last?

From savoring the "here and now" to preparing for our glorious future in heaven, "Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death" by conference speaker Barbara Johnson is your wise and witty guide to the joys and challenges of aging gracefully.

Between the years of childbearing and grandparenting, a woman has a lot to juggle! Barbara Johnson shows how the road from marriage to menopause is filled with more than a few potholes . . . but provides women with more than enough hope and humor to make it through the journey.

Historias de los sufrimientos de la vida y la sanidad de Dios a traves de la risa.

Sonrie frescamente, al leer esta obra escrita por la "Mujer de geranios " Usando los eventos de su vida por ejemplos, la popular autora y humorista Johnson comparte los cuentos conmovedores suyos de sus leyentes sobre los obstaculos de la vida y el poder curador de Dios. Es cierto que vas a estar animado cuando ries al leer capitulos como "Aqui estoy con mi estres sin saber a donde ir "