For Monday, August 29: Hold Me Together

This is Royal Tailor's second appearance on the experiment. Pretty good considering they are brand spanking new on the music scene. I featured their other popular song "Make a Move" earlier this summer.
I actually heard today's song first. It played on the radio as I traveled home from work one night and I thought, "That is a great song!" If you know me well then you know why I thought so...the lyrics, of course!! :)
If you want the background on Royal Tailor then click here and pop over to my previous entry about them.
"Hold Me Together" is that cry to God that we sometimes hear ourselves saying out loud. C'mon. You know there are days that you need someone or something to hold you together because you are just at the end. Like today was for me. By 7:30 am my day had gone to hell in a hand basket and I was so over the day! Problem was it was just getting started! I definitely needed some holding together by Mercy. I was wondering if God's love really could and would redeem the day from hell. :) Okay. I'm being a little dramatic because the reality is that I DO know that God's love was so in my day (although I admit I don't really see how but that's okay - just because you don't or can't see evidence of God's love doesn't mean it is absent or doesn't exist). But still, it was a rough day and really the only "thing" holding me together was God. Have you ever had a day or even life season like that? Where you just were hoping that God and all he is was going to hold you together because you knew you weren't successful? Here's the thing. God can and will hold you together. He trumps anything other kind of "glue" you might try!

Hold Me Together

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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.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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