the spirit of halloween is done. but the ever popular well lighted jack-o-lanterns are still beautifully decorated all over america's porches and out doors. but i learned a significant lesson about halloween this year as ate melissa unraveled her fascinating christian styled version of the jack-o-lantern story. it's quite a twist.
ate melissa began telling her story as she recapped instructions how to make a regular shapped pumpkin into these marvelous jack-o-lanterns. first, she started out that a pumpkin is picked randomly. she described it as dark inside filled with a lot of unwanted stuff inside it. it is then cleaned from the inside out. that meant, one must also take out all the "yucky" and "gooey" stuff inside thepumpkin such as seeds and stripped fibers and all so then the pumpkin will be hollow.
second, the pumpkin then is ready for carving. one can use anything to shaped or decorate this pumpkin.you can decorate this pumpkin any way he like. it can be of any shape and kind. it gives it a certain character and individuality.
third, she commented that one can then get a small tea light candle and light it fire. place the lighted tea light candle inside the hollow pumpkin. this then will illuminate the carved character outside the pumpkin towards the people looking at it.
after she rendered this familiar way of "how-to-do-a-jack-o-lantern" instructions, she then stated that "jack-o-lantern is like having GOD in your life." and everyone listened to her curiously.
first, she stated, "God chooses you randomly, like a pumpkin was chosen randomly." it can be anyone.then second, she described how we were before we ger spiritually cleaned. Like the stuffed and seeded pumpkin, our life is also dark and dim with a lot of "unwanted " things inside us bursting to come out and it needs to be freed. the only way to do that is to manually clean it off.
second, she continued on that when an individual decides and accepts the Lord to enter his life, he or she needs to be "cleaned "the same way how a pumpkin is cleaned from inside out. "through asking for forgiveness and repeneting our sins, we were then cleaned from our sins," she blurted. she reminded us we need to take out the "gooey and yucky" things, we committed out of our spirits and selves and be cleansed from it all just like a pumpkin is cleaned well.
third, once we accept the Lord in our lives, the Lord gives us the light to add brightness to out lives and illuminate our heart warming spirits. this is similarly likened to when the tea light is placed inside the hollow pumpkin with a chance to light the once dark world inside it. with the process complete, the pumpkin is then to be enjoyed by the one who appreciates it just like a man is changed with a new purpose.
as she finished her story, i smiled in awe. i thought of the many times i accepted the Lord in my life and how i repented my self. i was also reminded of how each and every time i did, it has been a cleansing experience for me to start all over again. it was freeing. it certainly takes that "dark gooey" stuff inside my system and i come out with a new lighted spirit after just like tea candle inside the hollowd pumpkin.
strange because now, i will never just perceive a carved pumpkin just another regular jack-o-lantern. halloween will never be just another "hallow's eve" story. now, when i see a jack-o-lantern, i will be reminded of the sole reason why i am in existence. i will remember that like the jack-o-lantern that was made and handcarved uniquely as it lit up the porches ofour houses during halloween, i was also handpicked and made uniquely for a purpose. and that is to shed my light to as far as many people i can.
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