God's bigger than our days

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day. Louie Giglio

Gosh, more days than not do I need this reminder! What is it about *us* that we translate a not-so-good day into our life is ruined? And more specifically we translate it into our life is without purpose? We need to quit with the dramatics! Our days - good or bad - or even seasons of our life - good or bad - do not change what God has planned for each of us. But what God has planned for us may be different than what's in our head. What he has planned for us may be what we think it is but it may look different than what we think. Or it may come at a different time than when we think it should. And when what we think doesn't happen we let it ruin our days or seasons of life.
Today's quote is two-fold in my opinion. The obvious lesson is to quit with the dramatics and don't translate "one" bad day as your whole life and God's plans for it are ruined. God's bigger than our bad days and seasons. The more subtle, under the radar lesson is that what God has planned for us is most likely different than what we've got stuck in our head and wouldn't we rather have his way than ours? We shouldn't let his way ruin our days and seasons. Let his way happen and make our days and seasons!

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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