Bless The Broken Road

I love this song. From the moment Rascal Flatts, whom I LOVE, released it I have loved it. Such a powerful song on two levels.
When you find the one, the one that God designed for you, it's as if the journey to find them was worth it. Like the song says, all the others just serve as northern stars pointing the way. True, sincere, honest, authentic love heals. There's a quote out there that says (in effect), being loved by someone deeply gives us strength but loving someone deeply gives us courage. How has authentic loved healed you? How has it made the journey worth it for you?
Take that to a spiritual level (of course!). We journey along life's roads trying to find true, sincere, honest, authentic love in things and people when only God can and will provide what we are looking for. And all the things we try, and all the things that fail in the attempt, serve as northern stars pointing the way to God. His love heals and makes the journey worth it.
My hope for you is that you will or have found the one in this life that God designed for you and that most importantly you find God, who is waiting for you and loves you with authentic, healing love.

Bless The Broken Road

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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