Children Of The Heavenly Father

Written in the late 1800's, today's hymn is obscure and I have personally never heard of it (as much as my memory can recall) and maybe have never sung it BUT Plumb in 2007 decided to give it some recognition and did their own version and put it on their album for that year! That's what I love about the hymns. They are timeless.
Today is Father's Day here in America and in order to thoroughly celebrate Father's Day we have to start with the true Father. God, our Father, is the model for you, Dads, to follow and look to. Don't look to your earthly Dad - he isn't the model to follow. Why? Because he is flawed. Oh sure he may have taught you many things but he's probably failed you in some way as well and as humans we cling to the failures and ignore the successes. That is why we must look to God and he alone for our model. God is the PERFECT Father and when we all look to him we will not be disappointed.
Happy Father's Day!

Children Of The Heavenly Father - Plumb
Children Of The Heavenly Father - Sunday Morning Service Singing, just so you can get the old school feel! :) I personally love that someone actually put this on YouTube...

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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