I'm going to be an angel. My son will just hand candy out and be the thing that jumps out of the leaves. 
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LivingLifeHisWay
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I don't like Halloween. I wanted to just ignore the day altogether but my husband said....when are you ever going to have 100 people at your door willingly??? So, we make up candy bags and include a Gospel tract. That's all we do, spread the Gospel. No dressing up or trick or treating but my kids do love to dress up for fun throughout the year. ::
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I don't like Halloween. I wanted to just ignore the day altogether but my husband said....when are you ever going to have 100 people at your door willingly??? So, we make up candy bags and include a Gospel tract. That's all we do, spread the Gospel. No dressing up or trick or treating but my kids do love to dress up for fun throughout the year. :
Now that's a great way to approach it!
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Sketcher
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As long as Halloween is only costumes and candy (good luck getting rid of that) then I really don't see a problem. That's the way it was in our house, and I'm not a practicing witch. The key is to ground your children in the Scriptures. This is what my parents did for me, and God kept me safe from paganism.
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That IS a wonderful idea!I don't like Halloween. I wanted to just ignore the day altogether but my husband said....when are you ever going to have 100 people at your door willingly??? So, we make up candy bags and include a Gospel tract. That's all we do, spread the Gospel. No dressing up or trick or treating but my kids do love to dress up for fun throughout the year. :
OK, I may leave my light on this year. Want candy? Take a tract with it!
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D'Ann
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Bummer about that one. HUGS I've always loved Halloween. When I was a kid, it was the only time besides Christmas and Easter that I was able to get my hands on candy. And it was "free" candy...
I never put much stock in the cult or occults... although, growing up in California, there were some strange people at that time of the year. I do remember going trick and treating with my sister and our friends and having to climb up these narrow stairs, there had to be at least 100 of those stairs and then they ring the door bell and some weird guy all in black answers the door and asked us to come in and of course, my sister and the friends did go in... but I said no and I stood outside the door and it turned out that this man was a "witch" (a real one, not just for the Halloween night) and they thought it was so cool and I just looked at him and me without a sense of humor back then basically gave him the "look". Anyway, I was grateful to leave that house and no I never returned back to that house on any other Halloween to trick and treat. That guy really was weird. There really was something wrong about him. What I didn't tell my sister or her friends because I was afride they would laugh at me and not believe me... but I felt my hair on my neck stand up and I got that "gut" feeling that I use to get before trouble... anyway...
despite that weird experience, I believe that how each one celebrates any holiday depends on their own heart and where they are in their own head and relationship with Christ.
It depends on how people look at that sort of thing.
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LivingLifeHisWay
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That IS a wonderful idea!
OK, I may leave my light on this year. Want candy? Take a tract with it!
Last year I gave out gospel tracts that are printed on the back of a fake million dollar bill. One little boy ran to his dad and said "Dad, she gave us money!!!!!!"
It was funny. I wonder what they thought when they discovered what it really was.
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Last year I gave out gospel tracts that are printed on the back of a fake million dollar bill. One little boy ran to his dad and said "Dad, she gave us money!!!!!!"
I like it. LOL ROTFLOL ROTFLOL... I need to get me some tracts before Halloween.
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I've been trying to think of a way to make Halloween a bit more posative this year and to teach my little one that it's not all about getting. I'm thinking of doing a food drive for the Food Bank when I go around with her. Even though I'd like to donate all of the candy my daughter gets, I don't think they'd be very appreciative of that.
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We don't do that sort of thing since I've gotten married. We've done some biblical havest festivals, more for others.
We love to dressup. We make occasions, and folk dances and plays for that sort of things. My eldest had her a pirate wedding in August that caused some commotion in the family for a while.
My take on Halloween is that it is part of the pagan holidays.
A All saints day in the spring sounds fun.
Many people wanted to honor God and could not give up their feasts so they reclaimed them for God. All days are God's ...
I still think God gave us enough holidays that we don't have to exchange them for ones that were once a celebration involving child sacrifice. Probably the last straw on the harvest festivals was the little girl that went missing a week before Halloween.
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We love to dressup. We make occasions, and folk dances and plays for that sort of things. My eldest had her a pirate wedding in August that caused some commotion in the family for a while.
My take on Halloween is that it is part of the pagan holidays.
A All saints day in the spring sounds fun.
Many people wanted to honor God and could not give up their feasts so they reclaimed them for God. All days are God's ...
I still think God gave us enough holidays that we don't have to exchange them for ones that were once a celebration involving child sacrifice. Probably the last straw on the harvest festivals was the little girl that went missing a week before Halloween.
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We are going on vacation over Halloween, so there will be no candy or trick or treating this year. My daughter is concerned, she doesn't know where we are going, so she isn't sure if it will be as much fun as Halloween at home is, but I'm sure she won't mind when she finds out we are going to Disney World.
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