While You Were Sleeping

Sleepwalking. The official definition from Webster is:
1) to walk while or as if while asleep
2) to proceed in a passive often lethargic manner

Today we are sleepwalking, just as nations and cultures before us have. Our sleepwalking has produced a hostile environment for those who are living according to God's standards. Even within the Church true believers are mocked and put down for their beliefs. But as Solomon said centuries ago, "There is nothing new under the sun." Those who believed that the Savior of the world had come in the form of a baby and birthed in a barn were mocked also. Thousands of years ago the world which we live in today was described. Don't believe me? Read Romans 1. Sound familiar? If it doesn't then you are choosing to deny the obvious truth. We live in a depraved and evil world. And the more we remove God from the fabric of our lives the more we decline into depravity.

Casting Crowns does a masterful job at tying together two different periods of history with the same message and theme. We are sleeping while the Savior is here among us.

Shake off your lethargy and arise from your slumber!

While You Were Sleeping (Original Christmas Version)
While You Were Sleeping (The Original Un-Christmas Version :) )

P.S. Sheesh, I was so serious today! :) I'll lighten it up for tomorrow! Blessings!

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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