Happy Harvest from our family to yours!
God Bless you! Please be safe on Halloween- and remember to thank God for all of his bountiful blessings. Have your kids say "Thank you and God Bless you" when they are trick or treating. This doesn't have to be a Pagan holiday if you don't make it into one! Halloween has always been a very controversial day for Christians, after all, it is rooted in Pagan beliefs and witchcraft. Many Christians choose to "ban" Halloween staying locked inside their homes. Although we are not taking Isaiah trick or treating this year (he's still too young to eat candy) it would be hard for me to keep him from trick or treating as he gets older. Halloween is everywhere, in the media, in the grocery stores, even at school. I loved trick or treating as a child. What kid wouldn't? What child does not like playing dress up and getting sweet treats? One thing I will do, though is teach Isaiah (when he is old enough to understand) what Halloween is truly about. We will also teach him the following:
There is a spiritual world filled with goodness from God and evil from Satan (Eph. 2:1-10)
Life with Christ has power over darkness (I John 4:4)
I will discourage him from dressing as a ghost, goblin or witch. We will go to pumkin patches and carve pumpkins. We'll go to the mountains and appreciate the turning of the leaves. We'll celebrate the fall harvest. Maybe we'll pick fruit right off of the trees at a fruit orchard! Maybe we'll bake apple pies! We will pray, and thank God that goodness always triumphs over evil, and we will thank God that there is still innocent fun left in this world. And then we will go trick or treating and eat ourselves silly with sugar and candy!
