I want to blog about something Halloween-themed, but I was having trouble thinking of something, so I looked back to my old blog posts for inspiration. I've been blogging for years now, and a handful of those blog posts were posted on October 31st (or November 1st, in the case of one late blog post (two now)). Yet, of all the blog posts I posted on Halloween (or shortly thereafter), only one of them stood out as being particularly Halloween-themed: No Masks. There may not be a whole lot that's blogworthy about Halloween.
However, I did find some joy in handing out candy and Play-Doh this evening. Perhaps there's a lesson on generosity in there, but the candy wasn't really mine to give away, so that muddies the message a bit. Mom was the one who bought and technically owned the candy and Play-Doh, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to blog about the joy we can find in giving away things that aren't actually ours.
Or does it?
Come to think of it, there is very little in this world that is actually ours. God created this Earth and everything in it. He made the minerals we mine from the ground. He makes the food we eat. He made us. Everything we have, we only have because the Lord gave it to us. We are merely stewards. And normally, when I'm in the position of having temporary custody of a thing, I'm very careful with it, and I certainly don't let people borrow it, because it isn't mine to lend. But, when it comes to our worldly possessions, they're not really ours to keep either.
Granted, I still believe in property rights, but I'd rather not delve into that branch of politics at the moment. Suffice it to say that we should feel free to give away the material things that we can't personally claim. It was perfectly within my rights to give Mom's candy away because that's what she wanted me to do with it. Similarly, we should use the things God gave us the way He would like us to use them, including being generous with them, because they certainly aren't going to be ours to keep.
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