March 3, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, March 3. The old saying is “April showers bring May flowers”, but, here in Texas, we’re always ahead of the game. March is one of our rainiest months. The forecasts say we’re in for a wet weekend, it could be “raining cats and dogs”. That phrase, as I’m sure you know, is an idiom - a set of words peculiar to a particular language, words not to be taken literally, but as metaphor and cultural tradition. If you’re just learning English, you probably know the words “cat” and “dog”, but that doesn’t help you understand that “raining cats and dogs” means it’s really coming down out there!
Several times in my life I’ve had the pleasure and the honor of teaching ESL classes (English as a Second Language), and teaching idioms was one of the greatest challenges. Most of language learning involves building one concept onto another. But idioms have to learned one at a time - and there are thousands of them in the English language. And more idioms come from the Bible than from any other single source. Here’s a few -
By the skin of your teeth (Job 19:20)
The handwriting on the wall (Daniel 5)
A thorn in your side (2 Corinthians 12:7)
A wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15)
The apple of one’s eye (Psalm 17:8)
Catch my breath (Job 9:18)
A drop in the bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
The straight and narrow (Matthew 7:14)
God’s Word impacts our lives, our culture, and even our language in amazing ways. Spend some time in His Word today. That’s “my two cents”. I”m “not pulling your leg”. The Bible is “worth its weight in gold “. It will be your guide “come rain or come shine”!
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
