Only Getting Started

Too often it is like Steven Curtis Chapman crawled inside my head and heart and life and wrote songs about what he observed. This song is, well, me! With each new year and decade of my life (haha, it's funny that I can talk about my life in decades! Sheesh...) I kind of think, "Well maybe I get some stuff now," and then God goes and shows me that nope, I don't get much of anything, I'm only getting started. :) Philippians 1:6 is a oft quoted fave verse of mine that basically says what God starts he will finish in me, in you, in his creation. So while I might think it is a little late to be getting started on some things at 36, the timing according to God's perspective is just right! :) Even though I have grown up learning about God and getting to know him, when I turned 30 God really sent me the message that I was just getting started, it's been quite a ride so far! :)

Only Getting Started (Song only, no video)

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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.

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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