A bad day?
April 13, 2012 (Friday)
Every once in a while we find ourselves waking up to the 13th of the Month, and discover it’s a Friday. That’s today: Friday the 13th. Where did some people get the idea that Friday the 13th is an “unlucky” day?
Well, some superstitions of the past said that 12 is a good number (The Twelve Apostles, etc.), but if you add one you create a bad number. You know, you have to be superstitious to accept something like that. Other superstitions said that Friday was an unlucky day. Your guess is as good as mine as to why that would be so. I much prefer the “TGIF” idea. Nevertheless, these two superstitions combine to make Friday the 13th a day fraught with dangers lurking in dark corners. In 1907, a novel by the name, about Wall Street shenanigans, became very popular, and is no doubt the source of the “Friday the 13th” myth, because it was only after the publication of that book that the superstition took hold in the culture.
In other words, in case you’re wondering, there’s nothing to worry about. Where is our faith, anyway, in God or in something else? What do we fear? If we are wise, we will fear our own tendencies toward sin, our own tilt toward error, and our own mistakes that sometimes bring down a host of ills upon our own heads. As a wise old sage has declared, “We have met the enemy and he is us!” (Pogo).
Oh, yes…enjoy your day. Like every day, today is a good day to read the Bible and pray. Today is a good day to do something nice for someone else. Today is a good day to draw near to God, because He then draws near to you. (James 4:8 KJV).
You know, I just can’t help it — I have to say it: “Happy Friday the 13th!”
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Click here to see a 2009 blog on this subject.