For Wednesday, March 6: Is his presence enough?

Our questions never hold up in the presence of God. His presence is the answer. John Schultz

Once I am really and truly in the presence of God all of my questions seem insignificant. Once I am in his presence I realize that all that matters is him. He is the answer to all that my mind is trying to figure out. If I could keep this realization at the forefront of my mind and heart things in life would be a bit easier I suspect. If I could be mindful of remaining in his presence then my days would look and feel a lot different. There is liberty in uttering the answer, and believing it, "I don't know but God does" and then letting God work the answer into my life. It is one thing to utter that, it is a whole other thing to be in his presence and believe that. Job is a great example of this. He had lots and lots of questions for God but he also knew that even though he wasn't privvy to the answers God had them. And so Job trusted in God's presence being enough for the answers to his questions. How about you? Can you, do you, trust God's presence to be enough?

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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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