For Monday, May 30: Blink

One of my "go to, live by" verses is Psalm 90:12, "Teach us to number our days rightly so that we may gain a heart of wisdom." So when I heard Revive's song, Blink, start off one of their songs with the idea of that scripture I tuned in...and I loved what I heard!
Life happens fast, much faster than some of us anticipate and if we blink too long we may miss something amazing. So Revive's song is about the blinks of life, not missing the color of life before it fades to gray (love that line), not running too hard and fast for the success we think completes us but instead choosing to love well because in the end that's all anyone is remembered for.
When we allow God to show us, teach us how to live out our days (i.e. number them) in ways that are lasting and impactful then we have allowed him to impart to us true wisdom. And we then become known as a person of wisdom. See wisdom and knowledge are two very different things. In fact some of the most knowledgeable people around have not one ounce of wisdom (yes I have a list of names and no I'm not going to share it with you!). So while I have little knowledge about, well, pretty much everything I am learning to not care because I'd rather have a heart of wisdom.
Life is made up of moments, what will we do with them?

Blink
Revive's DL about the conception of "Blink"

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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