Just a Closer Walk with Thee

I think from the time I was aware of God I had this song, this refrain on my heart. It seems that I have been wired to walk close with God. And the truth is all of us have been wired that way. We all search to connect what seems disconnected. The only thing I have found to connect me is a close walk with the One who created me. Not rituals, not rote sayings, not religion but a walk, which insinuates relationship. In my weakness I draw no strength from rituals, I only draw strength from walking with him. I draw no sense of morality from religion, I only draw my morals from knowing him through his word and through relationship with him. I draw no wisdom from rote sayings, I only draw wisdom from his word filling me up so that I can be his mouthpiece. I have found nothing so satisfactory as walking close with him. If you find yourself unsatisfied with life (be honest with yourself, look deeper than the surface of your life) then perhaps what you need is to connect with God, to walk close with him. Not sure how? Not sure you want to give up whatever holds you back? Talk to me, I'll listen and help you see the way. :)

Take your pick on today's song! I've included SEVERAL artists who have sung this beloved hymn in years past. I LOVE Ella (um, how could you not?!?) and Patsy. The other versions are good ones too so I just included them all!

Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Ella Fitzgerald)
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Patsy Cline)
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Anne Murray)
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Sara Evans)
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Pat Boone)
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Seventh Heaven Cast)

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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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