The children and I have been asked many times over the past week what we were doing for Halloween and what they were going to "be" for Halloween. How we have approached Halloween has changed a lot over the years for a number of reasons which I will expand on tomorrow.
If you are reading this blog and you have recently adopted children (within the past 2 years),
I will give you this little tip that may save you a little sanity: whatever you usually do on Halloween, SKIP the sugar-laden, high sensory-overload Halloween-fest or Harvest Party at least for this year.
It is O.K.
Your children will not die if they don't get to go trick-or-treating. Nor will they die if they don't go get their faces painted while inhaling huge amounts of sugar and popcorn just before winning a game of "Jesus Jack-O-Lanterns" and then bringing home a small goldfish which will most certainly die the next day. . .
If you have NO idea why I am saying to SKIP it this year, you have probably just very recently arrived home and you really should believe me when I say that the last thing your new child needs is this high level of stress mixed in with the very real spiritual battle that is raging for his or her heart and is often intensified on this night.
More tomorrow on our family's personal Halloween journey, but here's something to think about:
"Instead of hating evil, Americans toy with it. We toy with holidays like Halloween that were conceived in evil and that promote the “cute-ification” of evil, whether that evil takes the form of witchcraft, sorcery, ghoulishness, or some other form of malevolent imagery paraded before our children. We laugh at the very things that the Lord describes as “abominations,” and we find ourselves obsessively fascinated by, and attracted to, all things dark.
Yet we do not fear the Lord. . . "
- Doug Philipps (read the rest of the article here)
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