For Tuesday, January 15: Resolution solutions

Let your resolution be his solution. Unknown

Okay. It's a bit of a cheesy quote to be sure but something about it appeals to me. And in a twist on the phrase my mind keeps changing it to also read, "let his solution be your resolution." I think that most of the time that needs to be the truer sentiment. I need to resolve that God's solutions for the things that come up in my life are best. And too often I don't hold to that resolution. Too often I go to him last for solutions rather than go to him first. So yes, whatever I resolve to accomplish I should leave in his capable hands but more than that my whole life, and all that happens in it, I should be resolved that he has solutions already - ones that I cannot even come up with.

What about you? Are you resolved to allow God to be the solution to what comes up in your life?

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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.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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