You must be really fun at parties.
I have fond memories of Halloween. When my kids were little, we used to go to the pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins. We'd carve faces in them and roast the seeds. Then we'd put them out on the door step with candles in them to illuminate the faces. Fun stuff.
I'd always play Bach's organ music for when people came to the door, usually the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and hand out copious amounts of candy, always of course, keeping some put aside for us to munch on later.
Halloween was always for me the transition between autumn and early winter. Come November 1, thoughts would immediately turn to Thanksgiving and Christmas, I'd winterize the yard, stack my firewood and put up the storm windows.
When I was a boy, I never got into halloween costumes. Too much fuss for me. So at the last minute, I'd take an old sheet, cut holes in it for eyes, and head out there with a pillowcase. I lived in a densely populated neighborhood so within a few blocks, I would fill two or three pillowcases full of candy - most of which I hid from my mother and the hoard would last me for weeks.
Totally harmless and fun holiday. Any attempts to tie it to some sort of satanic celebration is utterly silly. I mean, Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin. C'mon. How satanic is that?
BTW, the "razor-blade-in-apple" was just a schoolyard scare. Never happened. It's what we would call today an "urban myth."
Besides, if anybody gave me an apple for Halloween, I'd toss it. It was the candy I was after.
WITH that re-birth came a lot of new realities, one of which is spiritual discernment
It was THAT spiritual discernment that opened my mind to see .... there are reasons for things ....
NOTHING is happenstance (Rom 8:28 & 29)
And to whom much is given .... much is required
For every "I see nothing wrong with Hallowe'en" ,
I see the need to be saved
For you still look through sinful eyes
Yeah ... I AM a drag at parties.