Trick or Treat

Halloween is always a fun time for us. We take the little ones trick or treating in town around 5:30. There are a couple of streets in town where the people that live there go out of the way to make it a fun time for the kids. Last night Em and Si were pirates and Layton was Ninja Turtle. Em does not like masks so the evening went well until we met up with Kelley and Layton and she saw his turtle mask. She screamed and cried until we finally convinced her it was only Layton. Everytime we came to a house where someone was wearing a mask she cried. Finally we just kept her with us. Sierra would walk right up on the porch, knock on the door and yell, "Trick or Treat" while Emma stood on the walk. Sierra would always come back with candy for Emma, it was so cute. We ended the night at a friend`s home for pizza. Before I left I searched through all the goodies the kids had collected to find some Snicker bars. I told Layton to save me one and he said, "I have to save one for sissy too", darn that sissy.

Today is November the first, I cannot believe how fast the days pass. It has been a typical fall day here in MD, a little cool but warm in the sun. I spent most of the morning preparing for my Tuesday bible study. We are on week 5 of "Breaking Free", "Binding Up The Brokenhearted". In Isa. 61:1 it says. "He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted". I thought about how much hurt, anger and bitterness we could save ourselves if we would just give our broken hearts to Christ. Tonight I received a call from a lady who lost her daughter a year ago and because of some other circumstances she just can`t move on. She is broken-hearted. Our Sunday School prayer list is filled with names of broken-hearted people. Who is going to heal their wounded hearts? I can hug them, cry with them, pray with them, but Christ was sent to bind up their hearts. Beth points out something I think we all need to be aware of and that is we protect ourselves from more hurt by making self-made fortresses. She says, "We risk becoming captives in our own protective fortresses".