Halloween...what does it mean to you?

Lots going on today. I just got a note from Amanda and she is in the hospital and 4 cm dilated! She has been waiting a long time for this baby and she is almost here!! Please pray for a safe delivery and a healthy baby. Our God is an Awesome God and to think that he has specially created this precious girl for Amanda and John! The creation of life and the gift of being able to bring it into this world is humbling. Hunter already has some great friends and Lainey will be a beautiful addition to the group!!

Prayer is powerful and I believe that I have a group of girls in my life that are a prayer power house. We all need those people in our lives that we can count on to drop everything and be there in a moment of need. That we can trust with our darkest hardest moments and know they will help us back on track and into the light. The people you know will cry when you cry and laugh when you laugh. The people that tell you the truth and not what you want to hear. We all need people like that, and I am endlessly thankful for the people in my life that pray with me.

A few more people to pray for...

Amy's mom is in the hospital and in a great deal of pain as she struggles with colonitis. Amy went to be with her. Pray for healing.

Elaine, my co-worker and friend, has a niece that was flown by helicopter to San Fransisco hospital. Please pray for healing, pray for the doctors that surround her.

Tonight we are going to dress up Hunter and knock on a few doors and hopefully get the good candy like Reese! We will be celebrating Fall and Fun costumes....but to tell you the truth I struggle with Halloween and what it represents, A Day of the Dead. I love pumpkins, harvest, costumes, scary movies, haunted houses, corn mazes and celebrating all that the Lord has given us....but I do not believe that the dead come alive on this night or any of the ancient myths surrounding this holiday. Here is Wikipedia's definition of Halloween...

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).[1] The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes[2] regarded as the "Celtic New Year."[3] Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient Celtic pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.[4][5]

Have a fun day and enjoy the silly kids in costumes, candy and good friends and family....we will! I will post some pictures tomorrow.

XO