Call Me Beautiful

What happens when someone says you are beautiful? (Okay this question is probably only for the ladies but men? By all means answer if you feel the need!) What happens when someone says it and you know they mean it? Does it empower you? Does it boost your confidence? Does it put a spring in your step? Does it make you believe that perhaps you are beautiful - inside and out?
Ginny Owens, blind since the age of 3 because of a degenerative eye disease, sings about what happens when our Creator calls us beautiful. When our Creator calls us beautiful it trumps any other time we've heard it. When he calls us beautiful he is doing so seeing the very depths of us, all the nooks and crannies that we hide from others and even ourselves. When he calls us a beautiful he does so through eyes that see all the knitting together (Psalm 139) that he did to create us. He holds the definition of true beauty. And he calls us beautiful according to that definition. AMAZING.
Ginny points out what God's affirmation of beautiful does for her - perhaps it does the same for you.
"Welcome to your life." Welcome to freedom, welcome to victory, welcome to joy, welcome to all that God holds for you because you believe you are beautiful.

Call Me Beautiful

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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