My Choice
Key Childhood Choice
Think back to your childhood. What passion fueled a key life changing choice when you were young? One of my key choices involved swearing, or the use of expletives.
At age 11, I became more involved with organized sports, more specifically, hockey (a must for an active youth in western Canada with snow in the ground seven months of the year) and little league baseball (could hardly wait for the ground to appear). With more interaction with my peers in competitive situations, their language became more ‘colorful’, using language that referred to ‘deities’ in a way that was not positive.
One sunny summer day while walking in a wheat field just outside of town (population of 50 people with three granaries and wheat fields surrounding) I decided to try out some ‘swear’ words. Having heard ‘Jesus’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ used in a negative sense when tempers/emotions flared, I said in a loud voice with no one to hear except the birds and wheat: “Jesus”. Wanting to sound even more authentic and reflecting emotional anger, I repeated in a more impassioned voice, “Jesus Christ”.
Upon voicing these words as a loud audible, angry expletive, an inner voice immediately kicked in admonishing me. I found myself forming an inviolable aversion to ever choosing to use those specific deity names in an angry, impassioned manner.Right then and there I knew swearing was not a positive choice for me. Even though my personal ‘world view’ was evolving, I had been raised with the view Jesus was God’s son. My internal ‘system/conscience’ rebelled against using ‘the Lord’s name in vain’.
Question?
Why isn’t any other ‘deity’ used in ‘swearing/expletives’?
