Day 365!! Your Grace Still Amazes Me

I think it's fitting that I end the year of music in a similar way as I started it, with God's Amazing Grace. Yes, today's song isn't a hymn per se. But it prompts the same thoughts, feelings, and action that hymns do. And, after all, the definition of the word "hymn" is a song of praise to God and a song of praise or joy so really today's last song fits right in with the hymns I have been featuring the past year.
His grace still amazes me. And actually it amazes me more and more as I age. As I physically age and as I spiritually age I cannot really stand in awe of his amazing grace but rather it brings me to my knees in gratitude and humility. The grace of God is the only way I know of, the only thing I have seen, the only covering that gets the job done when we are in need of covering. It is deeper, stronger, wider, and higher than anything our minds could come up with for comparison. His grace. It IS amazing indeed. Amazing amazing grace.

Your Grace Still Amazes Me
Thanks for journeying the past 365 days with me to discover, and re-discover, the power of music and to discover, and re-discover, those groups and artists who share the power of music with us!
(Hang on for another day or two and I'll wrap this thing up with some fun stats and the conclusion of the experiment as I see it!)

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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