Live Like You Were Dying

Thanks to last night's message at church and the showing of this video during the message I was handed today's song! I'm hoping I would have eventually remembered it on my own because I do love this song, love the message of it, and I like Tim McGraw so it's a win-win-win all the way around for me!

How do you live your days? In safe ways? Unwilling to take risks because of fear or insecurity or "comfort"? What regrets might you have if you died today and saw that you lived your whole life safe? I'm not a risk taker. It makes me feel uncomfortable. But in my 30's I have started to learn how to take some risks and enjoy them! I love this song because it reminds us to take the risks and avoid possible regrets.

None of us are guaranteed tomorrow so today live like you were dying.

Live Like You Were Dying

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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