If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.
Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.
I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
O chime of sweet Saint Charity,
Peal soon that Easter morn,
When Christ for all shall risen be,
And in all hearts new-born,
That Pentecost when utterance clear,
To all men shall be given,
When all shall say My Brother here,
And hear My Son in heaven.
History will judge us on how we respond to the AIDS emergency in Africa... whether we stood around with watering cans and watched while a whole continent burst into flames... or not.