For the past 50 years or so, I have always pledged myself to observe the entire Good Friday by never taking the Name of the Lord in vain. Sometimes I will slip, but then I'll catch myself and offer atonement. Happy Easter, Hal
My guardian dad would use the Lord's name in vain in the vehicle, right outside the church we went to. Use to totally upset my guardian mom, but she had very little power over him. One thing for sure, I'm darn glad I didn't follow in his footsteps!
I have said ever dirty word known to man...but the one thing I have said maybe 5 times in my life is GD. And once that comes out I bawl like a baby ..for Me it means I am out of control.
It’s a wonderful thing indeed not to add the Father into a railing of meaningless expletives but there’s a rather significant value that “Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain” most people are not totally aware of. Just as a child is reared to respect and hold the values of the family he or she is born or adopted into, we, the children of God are expected to hold onto His values and in all our dealings represent Him and in the ways He has taught us otherwise we are taking His name in vain, or rather, as nothing. When we say we are indeed children of God, then whether in speech or in action we need to hold ourselves in such a way that no one can mistake whose name we have taken and who the Father is. A rather simple example might be that when a man marries a woman, she has taken his name as her own. Now, assuming he is a Godly and good man, if she goes out and gets plowed one day, she has misrepresented the ways of the husband and in short, taken that name to mean.....nothing or in vain. It’s a rather curious thing but I have never heard someone who continually uses their own last name at the beginning of a grouping of curse words. I wonder why it is so important to a lot of people to include God in their railings?
During all my adult life, I have made it a ritual to never use the Lord's name in Vain, or to use any other type of profanity during the 24 hours of Good Friday. I'm not a Churchgoer, but knowing how Jesus suffered, I feel this is the least I could do. Hal
We never use his name that way. My wife has tomorrow off from work, but like a couple of others days so far this year, she won't get paid. She is a temp for the company. In my years of employment, I never once got Good Friday off. Guess some ask for the afternoon off, to go to church/ mass. That is, if they do indeed go. There are those that will say anything to get a day off, paid, from work. Generally that "pay" comes out of their PTO (Personal Time Off). If they don't have any PTO, they won't take it off.
Good Friday has been an interesting day for Alaska. The "Good Friday Earthquake" in 1964 was the largest recorded at the time, and I believe, still the largest in the northern hemisphere. Schools were out for Easter Break at the time, but it is said that if it happened now, since Easter Break is no longer allowed, hundreds, if not thousands, of children would have been killed, as most of the schools collapsed. The Exxon Valdez oil spill also occurred on Good Friday, and caused catastrophic environmental damage to Prince William Sound, previously Alaska's most productive and diverse marine environment. It has mostly recovered, but oil is still found around the beaches even after 32 years due to slow breakdown of hydrocarbons in the frigid water.