For Sunday, June 24: And all before breakfast...

Sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The White Queen from Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

I haven't read this book (GASP! I know right?!?) so I don't know the actual context in which this particular quote is actually spoken so I'm going to take it as I see it! :) My blog, my choice. Ha.

Sometimes what we need to do is begin to believe what seems impossible. Once belief gets behind what is called "impossible" then suddenly it begins to look...possible! Imagine that. :)

I know for myself a lot of times what I consider to be impossible really isn't, I'm just afraid. I like to use my trips to Africa as an example. I thought it was impossible to actually lead a team through Kenya. The reality is it wasn't impossible I was just scared. And my fear bled into how I led the team from time to time but when all was said and done I emerged knowing that it wasn't impossible and open to the possibility of doing it again having learned some lessons and experienced some things. Belief was built in me and "suddenly" it was possible.

What would happen if we began to believe that the impossible was actually possible?

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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