For Sunday, May 22: Because He Lives

When I hear this song I hear my Mom singing it. I associate this song with her in my childhood church days. I love this hymn and partly because it makes me think of Mama. :)
Bill and Gloria Gaither penned this during hard times. Most, if not all, great hymns and great expressions of praise to God are birthed out of hard and challenging times. That is when the test of who we are and what we believe about God come to the forefront.
Because he lives I can face tomorrow. Because he lives all fear is gone. Because he lives I have a future. It's a wonderful tribute to our God and King. Because he lives indeed!

Because He Lives
Because He Lives (Gaither Vocal Band)

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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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