A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. – Proverbs 14:30
Halloween seemed like a good time to write about monsters since they are popular costumes for trick or treating. Many a Frankenstein, Godzilla, and Werewolf came knocking at my door on Halloween over the years, and I seem to remember donning a monster costume or two as a kid during my Halloween ventures. However, I don’t recall seeing anyone dress up as the “green-eyed…
Halloween, with its spiders, ghosts, and goblins, makes for a spooktacularly frightful time of trick or treating and working up a good fear! It is also the time of year when studies are done on the most common phobias, or morbid fears, across the U.S.A.
The top five phobias in 2021, according to YourLocalSecurity.com, in each state of the U.S. were fear of: failure (Massachusetts), blood (Tennessee), water (PA), intimacy (NY), spiders (SC), and a fear of the outside (SD)….
It happened on Tuesday, October 29th. I know for sure the time and date because I left Bible study and headed straight to Wal-mart to get the “stuff” to make my daughter’s Halloween costume. (If you are curious, she went as a Pinterest board. Cheap! Easy! Adorable!) After gathering the supplies, I had a momentary surge of holiday goodwill and thought I would trek across the store to get the ingredients to make sugar cookies. (If you are curious, it was a bag mix and canned icing. Cheap! Easy! What…
