When Worldviews Collide
Ah, Halloween approaches. And so comes another face to face meeting of my new Christianity and my old world view. For 42 years Halloween was…well…Halloween! Dressing up, knocking on doors, begging for candy, handing out candy, sorting candy, trading candy with my sisters. Of course I stopped doing the door-to-door thing myself at around 13 or so, but that doesn’t change what Halloween was.
So, now I’m a Christian and I hear that Halloween is evil and I shouldn’t partake. “Halloween glorifies evil”, I hear (and it certainly does). Vampires, witches, ghosts, serial killers, and all manner of “the undead”, flit from house to house
demanding candy. What am I, a “new creation”, with candy hungry kids, to do? I could forbid my children from participating. We could darken our house and pretend we’re not home or leave and go to the mall to avoid the sugar fueled hordes.
Avoidance. That’s not being a very good witness, so we will participate to some extent. I’m just not sure how much. We’ll also, as a family, re-evaluate when this season is over and try to establish a plan for how best to glorify God in the future.
Oh, and candy corn rules. Don't even argue with me!
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Candy corn does rule! Shaina and I had a bowl of it above our TV. We ate it all and tried to buy a new bag yesterday but the only one left at Target was all smashed or melted or something.
Anyway, Shaina and I are also going to hand out candy and maybe hang out with Matt and Ashley. We have a pumpkin we might even carve also. Matt just threw away all of their cool stenciled ones (they were rotting already), oh well.
Ah yes, candy corn. I'm eating some right now actually. Gage found some at the grocery store that wasn't smashed and melted so we were able to refill our bowl w/ candy corn. :o)
One thing I wanted to mention was that on the 30th, they have a festival at my old church in San Marcos. Its located at the Boys & Girls Club in San Marcos. There are tons of games, tons of candy, popcorn, food, and music. Gabby will probably be singing w/ my Dad. My Dad and his band played for 2 hours last year! They did sooo many songs haha. I was thinking Brad and Russ might be interested in that. I believe they had about 800 kids show up last year! I was surprised because the church itself only has about 50 people haha. Wow..that was actually the first day that Gage and I were together as a couple...October 30th. Going to that festival was like our first "date" I guess.
-Shaina
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