Happy Fall Harvest. Welcome back to the #LMMLinkup where we boldly share our family-friendly posts that teach, edify, and uplift us. We love posts featuring family-friendly book reviews, devotions, blogging or writing tips, and anything encompassing literacy and learning.
Today is Halloween. As a Christian, I am troubled by the dark background of this holiday and do not celebrate it as such. I hate anything demonic or evil.
How do I deal with Halloween? I did allow my daughter to trick or treat, but through the years, I encouraged my daughter to dress as a famous person from the Bible or as a Book princess. I never allow her to don a costume that represented evil. I do not want to honor Satan in any way.
I know this may sound hyper-religious to some, but I love the sacrifice Jesus made for me too much to glorify anything related to evil.
How do you approach Halloween as a Christian?
I found these very informative articles to help bring truth to the holiday. I hope you will read each and ask God for His direction about this holiday.
- How Should Christian Families Approach Halloween? at Crosswalk.com
- Halloween and the Christian at AmazingFacts.org
What are your thoughts on Halloween? How should we approach it as Christians?
In other news, I wrap up my 31 Christian Women Bloggers Who Inspire a Closer Walk with Jesus series today. What a blessing this series has been to me. I have grown spiritually as a result of reading the beautiful profiles of each of these women. I want to thank all 31 of them for participating!
This series was part of the annual October Write 31 Days Challenge. 31 Days is an online writing challenge started by home blogger, Myquillyn Smith (The Nester), and now hosted by Crystal Stine, where bloggers pick one topic and write a post on that topic every day in October.
They offer their words as gifts to others to encourage and uplift, to glorify our Lord and Savior. I hope my series will bless you whether you blog or not.
I welcome all Write 31 Day participants. We are community and would love to support your endeavors this month so link up your wonderful posts this week. Are you participating in the Write 31 Day Challenge? What do you hope to accomplish and learn with your participation?
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Now on to our linkup. Let’s
Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!
Amazing, FREE Bible Resource: The Bible Project
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I am really excited about this fantastic post by one of our new hosts. Brandi shares a great new resource to help draw you closer to Christ through Biblical study. If you missed this post, you will definitely want to visit it today. I highly recommend this resource that Brandi shares.
My Favorite Post of the Week
7 VERSES FOR WHEN YOU FEEL ALL ALONE
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Philippians 4:6
Lauren shared inspiration and special versus to help all in times of need. I loved the verses she shared. Be sure to check out her post.
Remember to check out other hosts’ blogs to see which posts from last week were their favorites. Want to be the next to be featured! Just link up a post and if you are read the most, we will feature you. Also please make sure you link back to us so others will know about our link up and join in. We try to make it worth your while to linkup with us by promoting your posts across our social media networks. We also pin our most clicked and featured posts to our Pinterest Board each week!
Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop!
We are working on a new graphic which indicate the new times for our hop: beginning Mondays at 9 a.m. You will still have until Saturdays at 12 p.m. now to link up! So come back often.
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So, how was your Halloween, dear?
I hope your November will be another awesome month.
Oh, Mary! You just made my day by featuring my post. Thank you, sweet friend!
Lauren Gaskill recently posted…With God, Dreams Come True
Halloween wasn’t really much of an issue when I was growing up – no one in my neighborhood decorated (except for taping kids artwork up in the front windows) like some houses do now. Everyone dressed up, but we were always things like Holly Hobbie or Raggedy Ann or an angel or a general “princess” queen or fairy or something. When my husband and I had our daughter, we felt like that same thing was appropriate for us. Our daughter has been a box of popcorn, a rainbow, and a flowerpot, and thinks of this holiday as a chance to dress up with friends and do something fun. Have a great week!
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We have the same approach. My grands this week dressed up as a Twister game, Nemo, and an elephant.
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