More Beautiful You

Today's song is for my official teenager, Mikaela. :) She loves this song and I do too. And interestingly enough she loves this song for the same reasons I do! See, Mikaela gets it - so far. She gets that true beauty comes from inside. She's always telling me about things her friends say to her and what she says back to them. This is such a "sticky" age. Girls trying to figure out body issues and who they want to be versus who they are, etc. Lanny and I pray that Mikaela always has the healthy mindset and perspective about her looks and body that she has right now. She uses makeup because it's fun, not because she must have it. She understands that when she looks in the mirror she's looking at the body God designed and she has choices to be a good steward of it. She gets that in order to take care of yourself you have to eat but what you eat is important. That's all the external but Mikaela gets the internal. She understands the scope of purity - not just sexually but for her mind and how she portrays herself to the world. She believes, without Lanny and I ever talking to her this specifically about it, that purity is a whole package. To be beautiful you need to be pure sexually, in thought, in word, in deed, in dress. In all ways. Hello?!? Can I be her when I grow up?!? :) She's an incredible young lady with a lot of wisdom and maturity. She knows where beauty comes from and she lives for that kind of beauty. She rocks our world! And our prayer is she stays the course.

More Beautiful You

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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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