Go Light Your World

AH! I just found a new song to put on the soundtrack of my life! Wow. This song is POWERFUL. And it is exactly what God calls us to in his name! I actually blogged about this topic, before hearing this song, the other day. If you are interested in reading that click here. Back to the song. I'm just so blown away by it. I think what blows me away is that is the message God has been teaching me for a few years now and compelling me to share with others. We all have some way that we can light up our worlds. And God doesn't ask us to tackle the world on the whole, just our worlds. The world we come into direct contact with every day. When we impact our personal world and others are impacting theirs it becomes like a domino effect and pretty soon the whole world is affected. I'm really inspired and motivated and moved by the truth contained in this song. See? This is why music is so powerful. It takes a message that we are already processing and drives it home in a way that we can and will remember. I love it!

Go Light Your World

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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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