For Thursday, May 2: Safe Places

Everyone needs someone they can say ANYTHING to without the fear of rejection. BE that someone. Jamie The Very Worst Missionary

Are you that someone? Do you have that someone? If you aren't that someone, why? If you don't have that someone, why?
To BE that someone you have to be able to speak truth in love. You have to be willing to be a safe place. You have to be willing to listen without trying to fix, without passing judgement, and without condemning.
To HAVE that someone you have to be willing to hear truth, even when - or especially when - it stings. You have to be willing to invite someone into your life that you know won't back down from your crappy moods and defensiveness. You have to be willing to talk and be vulnerable.
We need safety in our lives and we need people who will stand up and be that safe place for us and we need to be that safe place for others.

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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