Oct 31st, 2021: Thoughts on Halloween

 


Do you have enough candies for tonight? Halloween 🎃 is not that important in my celebration calendar. However, we have been giving out sweets because we want to be good with the kids that ring our doorbell tonight. There are only treats and no tricks.

I came across this image in a business presentation, and I would like to use it with a Christian twist.




Knock, and the door will open to you. We have encountered more questions during the last two years. Answers don't seem to come by that easily. We don't see leaders talking about praying and seeking God for wisdom in dealing with these questions. If we don't knock on the right door, we might be in more serious trouble.

Ask, and you shall receive. Our answers to life depend on the questions we ask. The questions we ask depend on our understanding of God, others, and ourselves. We seem to receive more and more chaos lately. Maybe we should reconsider our questions and our hypothesis about life and death.

Receive the love of God. That is the best gift of all and yet the most overlooked one these days. The love of power, wealth, good health, and sexual freedom has led us to the different promised land. We want to be free and yet find ourselves living in suspicion and fear. We say we are about equality and only realize that the outcome of that is the creation of a more destructive form of injustice.

Embrace others as God has embraced them. Life will be a lot richer if we can do this well. The poverty that comes out of Covid 19 is the absence of affection. We don't know how to greet one another properly anymore. The disintegration of our community has brought about alienation within our spirit and emotion.

You might want to ask what S and Y stand for? We should Scream and Yell the name of God so that we can be reminded of His presence. Regardless of what the world says, God is alive and well.

Matthew 7: 7-8
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

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