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Our family really doesn't celebrate Halloween.  In the past, we have done multiple things to try and honor G-d on this night such as serving others, trick-or-treating for UNICEF, and even going to our annual church "harvest" festival dressed in Biblical costumes, all which were fun at the time but seem empty today.  My heart hurts for the world and what it sees as harmless fun and okay.  This year the kids and I have decided to stay home and avoid it all; partially because of my own convictions but partially because our church has decided to make this night a "fund raising" event for their missions groups.  I'm appalled that they have turned an opportunity to reach out to the unsaved into a means of making money.  It sickens my heart.  My kids don't really have the desire to go to a different church event with people and kids they don't know just for a bit of candy so we have decided to just stay home and watch a movie (Wizard of Oz or something fun), make popcorn balls and maybe some caramel apples but no harvest festivals or costumes this year.  It is tradition that I make two stuffed pumpkins to eat - one a bit spicy and the other like an apple dessert so we will also carve those and I thought I would throw these lovely pumpkin devotionals into the night as well:

http://www.creativebiblestudy.com/christianobjectlesson-pumpkin.html

http://www.creativeyouthideas.com/blog/object_lessons/pumpkin_prayer.html

http://www.beau.org/~vickir/halloween/

May your evening be blessed with whatever you do and may it honor G-d

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