dailydatewithgod

The funny thing about the celebration of All Hallo’s Eve is the length we go to create all kinds of things to scare us. I am not sure the evening a holiday designed to recognize the sacred spirits became synonymous with fright.  Perhaps we are magnifying our collective horror stemming from the unknown about death and what happens when we die.  The irony is we do not need to create things or situations outside of ourselves to spook us. There are plenty of them inside of us. We all live with our own internal spooks. They are the things that scare us from diving deeper within. The spooks are the stories we tell ourselves about how the only things that make sense or matters are elements we can experience or prove are present in the world with one of our five senses. We get spooked about exploring something that cannot be proven or explained. We get spooked when we realize we are the one common denominator in all our experiences. We get spooked when we are still and feel like we need to do something. We get spooked when we don’t have the answers. God invites us to step up close to our spooks with curiosity. We can explore what they are trying to tell us. The spooks are simply the guards of protection we designed often as children so we could figure out a way to keep going.  They are the quintessential boogeyman. The spooks no longer have to scare us unless we choose to let them. If we venture into our heart by walking through the spooks we will experience a reservoir of love which was hidden from view. It was designed in us from the time of our creation.  Within our hearts, we find the courage needed to face any other spooks that come across our path both internally and externally.