The House You're Building

Audrey Assad? Huh? Who?! Audrey Assad the gifted, the amazing voice, the talented songwriter that's who! :) Not new to the music scene but new enough that not many have heard of her. She's a Christian and so her songs come from that place of faith. Good good stuff.

I picked this song because of the picture it paints. God is a master renovator, remodeler (yes it's a word in my world let it go!), transformer of lives. We wander around trying to find a home to fit into and he has built us one. The one we build ourselves usually gets washed away by the storms of life because we build on sand. But God is the cornerstone and our firm foundation. When we plant ourselves on him the storms of life can't move us. (See Matthew7:24-27) We are homeless until we make him our home.

The House You're Building

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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.

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.

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