Carving Pumpkins

Here is our small attempt to keep Holy - Halloween.  I'm still not quite sure how to handle "Halloween", but this is what we did this year.  I found this little poem, which we read as we were carving our pumpkins.  We talked about sin, a little, since my children are so young.  Although Andrew is beginning to understand the concept of sin.  Also, because they will see many scary things, we spoke about how some choose to use Halloween to celebrate evil, but we are going to just have fun dressing up and collecting candy and letting the light of Jesus in our hearts shine.  We prayed for everyone we will see on Halloween.

ALSO, we celebrated All Saints Day on Monday by gathering photos, statues, and cards of our favorite Saints and making an All Saints Day altar on our mantel.  The boys really enjoyed this.  WE then prayed a litany to the Saints. I regret not getting a photo of our All Saints Day altar.  Maybe next year.

Here is the poem:
Being a Christian is like being a pumpkin. 
God lifts you up, takes you in, and washes all the dirt off of you. 
He opens you up, touches you deep inside and scoops out all of the yucky stuff -- including the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc. 
Then He carves you a bright new smiling face and puts His light inside of you to shine for all the world to see!