Miracle Of The Moment

Of course my crush Steven Curtis Chapman is on this theme (or mini-theme) week! It was today's song that made me decide to do as much as a theme week with the idea of moments of life as I could. I think it goes without saying (and yet I'm going to say it) that I LOVE THIS SONG.
Life is made up of moments and what will you do with them? This song encourages us, in fact challenges us, to breathe in and out, taste the tears as they fall, laugh hard and long when it comes, pay attention to every heartbeat, see the miracle of every moment. Just like yesterday's song, if we blink too long then we are going to miss the here and now of our lives. And we don't want to. Oh you may think you want to but hindsight is 20/20 and I'm telling you that the here and now of every day is what makes you stronger, what makes you appreciate all of life.
This song was birthed, in part, through another one of my "go to, live by" verses. Psalm 118:24, "This is the day the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!" Every day is fashioned by God and so it is good. What makes our day "bad" is US. Our attitudes, our blinks, our heartbeats during the day. So what will we do with the moments of our lives, which are made up of our days?

Miracle Of The Moment

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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