Black clothing

[Bob_Crowley]

I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Mods, feel free to move this thread if you deem necessary.

It so happened to me one day that a sadhu (A hindu godman) once showed up at my doorstep and supposedly started telling about my fortune. I was about 8-9 years old then (I am 23 now) and my mother was with me. He said that I would become an engineer, I would get to travel abroad and other assorted claims I vaguely remember. My mother doesn’t usually entertain mendicants tried to turn him away by paying him, however, he did not want money. Also, she was intrigued when he started telling the good stuff about me, so she listened to him. Among other things he said, he said not to put on black clothes on me.

To this day, my mom does not let me wear black clothes and my dad supports her. I see it as a total restriction to my freedom. Also, it is not practical because I will have to wear something black some or the other time depending upon the occasion.

However, I now live away from my parents, but I am still confused. I have taken to wearing black t-shirts, but I am confused if it will really have some adverse affect on me or something. My mom still rebukes me for wearing black. What shall I do?

The problem is that your mother, backed up by your father, has taken this stuff onboard, and her years of influence have had an effect on your own attitudes. You’re still letting her dictate your attitude to what you wear.

And as someone else has pointed out, unless these predictions came true, then the man was a fake. Simple as that.

How long are you going to let yourself be tied to your mother’s apron strings on this issue?

 

[Cat]

My daughter wears all-black for her job–stage management. ALL black, even the underwear, socks, shoes, etc.

When she was younger, she often did laundry at the laundromat with her then-boyfriend, who was a stage hand. Everything in their wardrobe was black. She said they got a lot of funny looks from the other customers.

I think the OP should break the “chain of superstition” and wear black if they wish. Christians should not be held prisoner by occult beliefs. The Lord is more powerful than any evil spirit.

 

[TrueLight]

With so many colors why wear black?

Because black is beautiful.

 

[desmond27]

OP, are you an engineer? Have you traveled abroad? Did anything else come true?

Wear black, there’s no power to colors.

For one, I did take Engineering in college (I got brainwashed into doing it by a professor in junior college). I am now a Bachelor’s in Engineering graduate and I work in Oracle as a consultant and there are chances that I might go abroad in the future.

It’s interesting that, years later, your mother is still under the power of this sadhu. As parents, our job is to protect our children from harm, but in this case, your mother failed to protect herself and you from the words of this man.

However, it is not the sadhu’s words that are powerful, but the fact that your mother chose to believe his words, instead of looking to herself. In anything (even religion), we have to work it out for ourselves and not be so easily led. God gave each of us the ability to think for ourselves and the Holy Spirit to guide us and it is when we fail to utilize these God given gifts that we tread in dark waters.

I am glad that, by choosing to wearing black t shirts, you have not fallen under the power of the sadhu’s empty words. God Himself does not really care whether you wear black or not and that’s all that should matter.

Our minds our like an open door and we should be very careful what we let in. If we don’t actually reject a thought or opinion, there is acceptance and that thought or opinion now becomes part of your belief system.

From my understanding, parents want what’s best for their children and want their children to progress. That’s why I think my mom paid attention. I spent most of my childhood devoid of black clothing because of this. However, as I entered my teens, I began to feel uncomfortable with such restrictions and began to…well…rebel.