Today I feel grateful for community. I have several little communities that I am blessed to be in and the one that made me feel grateful today was my home church community. We've been experiencing some "growing pains" and walking through some questions together and in the past few months I can really see how we are growing closer to one another in really solid ways. Each week we study God's word in depth together, we literally break bread together (have a meal), and we serve together in various ways. Today we had great conversation about the Ten Commandments and I sat there feeling so grateful for this chance to be with this group of people for this time. How about you? Do you have community you feel grateful for? If not, I encourage you to seek out community - you will be blessed!
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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