It’s bad luck to…
walk under a ladder.
You’ll have seven years of bad luck…
if you break a mirror.
It’s bad luck to…
open an umbrella inside a house.
Step on a crack…
and you’ll break your mother’s back.
Friday the 13th…
is an unlucky day.
Do you believe these statements?
Childish superstitions? Yes.
Believed by many? Yes, again.
Today is Friday the 13th.
“This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24 HCS).”
Superstition is systematic, based in fallacy and gullibility. One day, I may set aside time to research perceived sources of ludicrous superstitions. Today, I focus on one I have pondered lately, the jinxed number thirteen. To my surprise, in my curiosity I found both examples of believed good and bad fortune through the number thirteen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_%28number%29
As the year 2012 rushes to a close, I anticipate a great new year ahead. 2013 holds adventure and surprises. I want to prove naysayers wrong and foolish. Time and calculation is in the hand of the creator. He who numbers the hairs on my head sustains me, and is able to bless me as richly in the thirteen year as he did the twelfth. “So you should say, ‘If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that (James 4:15 ERV).” I defy superstition; I trust sovereign God.
Pam Ford Davis 