For Tuesday, April 30: Fully human because of the touch of Jesus

You can’t become fully human and avoid gender, sexuality, money, politics, orientation, ecology, history, literature, economics, philosophy, etc. You cannot be a disciple of Jesus and protect pieces of your soul from his touch. Jonalyn Fincher

If you call yourself a follower of God, a disciple of Jesus, then you must allow yourself to observe all that this broken world has. Jesus allowed himself to be confronted with the hard things of the time so that he could speak truth into those things. As his disciples that is what he asks us to do as well. To observe hard things doesn't mean we agree with them. Jesus observed hard things and then spoke truth into them. He didn't shrink back from hard things, he didn't protect his soul from the things and people that kept him from being fully human. (Remember he was fully God but fully human as well.) If we want to be called and known as disciples of Jesus then we have to be willing to expose our souls to his touch. And what is his touch? The things that make us fully human and cause us to observe in order that we speak Truth.

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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