Have you voted? You are an American, and Americans must vote! It has been a long primary, almost two years. We started off with about 18 candidates on the Republican and 2 on the Democratic sides and finally ended up with two! It should be an easy choice as long as one of them is fighting to stay out of jail, but she has a big following so it’s hard to tell.

I know that God is in control of the election and we can rest in that thought. He has stepped in before and will step in now. In the Old Testament of His word, one of the stories is that after the Jews had been punished for years wanted badly to go back to their homeland, Jerusalem, where they wanted to rebuild that city. King Cyrus had turned the Jews down several times. He was a wicked king. But God  moved his heart and gave them resources needed to rebuild the city. The exiles were free! God can set us free in this election too.

God’s ability to help even us  is absolutely limitless. All things concerning your situation, including the hearts of people in authority over you is in His hand. The worst thing we can do is trying to go our own way. So, we should thank Him for what He is doing for America and have peace in our hearts, not only now, but in anything you are facing  too. It’s time to turn on the television to find out how the election is going. Bye for now!

It seems that Halloween is changing again. When I was at a Halloween store I saw mainly men and women looking at things and many of them bought them. There were no children at all! These adult men and women hold parties either at someone’s home or at a fine  hotel and everyone comes dressed in their costumes. Drinking and dancing is their activity for the night. Where are the kids? Not a one turned up at our house. We had candy that will last quite awhile! I suppose there are kids in costume going around their neighborhoods   but there seems to be fewer each year and those who do go are always accompanied by an adult. And I don’t blame them. There are so many bad people around.

Gone are the days when every kid dressed up in whatever Mom could make and off they would go up and down the streets, knocking at doors, and their bags were getting quite full! I can remember those days. I would make up costumes using the material I had. My kids never had costumes that were bought. Neither did any of their friends!

Gone are the days when we didn’t even think about going to a house and asking for candy but we had parties at one of our friends home, or if we were the lucky ones that invited the kids to our home. We played games and always had a bobbing for apples game. Sometimes we had a hayride pulled by a horse. It would always be at night and we’d sing songs of the day as our horse pulled us around. I remember that was a lot of fun!

Or if we went even farther back when I was too little for the parties at homes, celebrated Halloween at school. We decorated our room with orange and black tissue paper and played games. Our schoolwork was forgotten that afternoon! but when it was dark at night, Daddy and all the other men in town went out in their outhouses and stayed there, because the big boys went around tipping the outhouses over. We even had a light in our outhouse so Daddy was especially careful of ours!

Take your pick. which of these celebrations would you like to be a part of? I think that the  day of Halloween has changed more often than any other, don’t you?