For Tuesday, January 15: Resolution solutions

Let your resolution be his solution. Unknown

Okay. It's a bit of a cheesy quote to be sure but something about it appeals to me. And in a twist on the phrase my mind keeps changing it to also read, "let his solution be your resolution." I think that most of the time that needs to be the truer sentiment. I need to resolve that God's solutions for the things that come up in my life are best. And too often I don't hold to that resolution. Too often I go to him last for solutions rather than go to him first. So yes, whatever I resolve to accomplish I should leave in his capable hands but more than that my whole life, and all that happens in it, I should be resolved that he has solutions already - ones that I cannot even come up with.

What about you? Are you resolved to allow God to be the solution to what comes up in your life?

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.

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.

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.

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