Look Before You Leap

16 Dec

My Take

DiVoran Lites

Last Friday when I wrote the date, December 13, 2013, I thought, dum-de-dum-dum, it’s Friday the thirteenth, bad luck day. In case you didn’t recognize it, dum-de-dum-dum is the theme song to the old T. V. series, “Dragnet.” Bill and I use it as a warning that we’re entering suspenseful and dangerous territory.

This blog is about three of the many other superstitions I’ve heard in my lifetime. You probably know them too.

  1. If you walk under a ladder propped against a building you’ll have bad luck.
  2. If a black cat walks across your path…bad luck. I suppose the cat has to be black because black cats are associated with witches.
  3. If you break a mirror, you’ll have NINE YEARS bad luck. Don’t ask me why nine, not eight or ten.

So what’s the truth about superstitions?

  1. If you walk under a ladder there’s a better chance of a gallon of primer falling on your head than there is if you walk closer to the curb. But watch out on that, too.
  2. Any color of cat can twine around your feet if you get too close. You could trip and fall and break your arm.
  3. It gets much worse. If you break a mirror and a shard of glass flies up and cuts your leg you can get an infection that if you don’t clear up you could develop gangrene and have your leg cut off. The effects from that could last nine years–or a lifetime.

Mostly though, and this I know, God looks after us in our carelessness and preoccupation. This doesn’t answer the BIG QUESTION, of course, but to me it’s apparent that by asking the Holy Spirit, not why bad things happen, but how to take them, and in what way to be blessed by them will more than meet our needs for comfort and guidance when bad things do happen. The Holy Spirit knows all the truth and He will tell us what we need to know.

Meanwhile:

  1. If you take any wooden nickels, be sure they’re round tuits.
  2. Keep looking up.
  3. Look before you leap.

Have you heard of any new superstitions connected to the digital age that I don’t know about? I suppose you have, otherwise, why would we need Snopes?

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