Dear Reader,
Last week, I wrote a post about spirituality and the concept of oneness. If you haven’t read it, make sure that you take a look. And I promised to write a part two this week, about what a spirituality of oneness might look like. I had the best of intentions.
What I forgot was that – today is Halloween!
So part two of Oneness will have to wait another week, because I want to pay tribute to Halloween, one of my favorite holidays growing up and even today.
In fact, Louise and I just got in from driving around our small town – three times – just to look at all the trick-or-treaters! We have done it for the past few years, and we always have great fun. the sidewalks (where I walked as a kid, because this is my home town) were full of tiny munchkins dressed as witches, skeletons, vampires, goblins, princesses and ballerinas. On our third pass, Louise saw a dinosaur so tiny he could barely walk.
Such great fun, and so exciting to see strange shadows, figures passing through shadows, and large groups of eight or more little ones, older ones and adults scurrying along.
Halloween is a big deal here. I should mention that it’s gotten a lot more organized since I was a child. There is a warming station at the Methodist church on Main Street, a couple of haunted houses for ghosts to visit, and one street is so popular the whole street is blocked off to vehicles. There is a Halloween party at the Town Hall.
This is a time, as the days grow colder, the trees lose their leaves and bare branches frame the last light of day, to celebrate the mystery of life, the unseen, the unexpected. This is a time to remember that we can express different parts of ourselves in different ways.
We can be a little outrageous, a little daring, and we can have a little old-fashioned adventure. Some of the costumes have changed – there were plenty of light sabers flashing along the sidewalks – but many were the same as in my childhood.
The things that scare and thrill us are universal archetypes, still part of us, unleashed for at least one day of the year, in the name of good fun.
I hope you have enjoyed this Halloween in your own way, dear reader, and may you always honor the mystery of life – the mystery you carry within you.
I honor your loving heart,
John
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