Have you ever been trick-or-treating that might seem like an arbitrary and

significant question, seeing that we're in the month of February and for those

keeping track? Trick-or-treat happens on Halloween October 31st, but take it

from a pastor's kid. Trick-or-treating for some of us who've been Christians for a

while was something we were not allowed to do. I know that sounds

comical to many of you watching. You're like, wait Christians can't trick-or-treat.

Well, we can now, and we do, and our kids do, but that brings me to one of the

great stands that Chelsea and I took in our parenting. My wife of 21 years, we

now have a 16, 14, 11-year-old, two boys, and a not-so-little girl. I used to

say little girl all the time, but she's 11 going on 21. This is a wildlife. Back

to trick-or-treating. Trick-or-treating is something we do in the Smith

House, so we think a lot of activities in the world are redeemable and if

done the right way, from the right perspective, I think it can be really

enjoyable, right? And we obviously love refined sugar and hydrogenated oils and

blue 40 and yellow 9 and all the other horrific things that are put in. It can be.

Well, trick-or-treating became kind of a problem in our family and here's

how. Now trick-or-treat growing up was like, that's the Satan's birthday. You

can't trick-or-treat. Chelsea and I, we built a grar family and we were like,

no, you can dress up and we'll go get candy and it'll be fun. Until we checked

under the beds of our children, this is years ago now, and discovered in, I

don't know, June, July, August, they still had the candy under their bed and it

came to our knowledge. I'm looking this way because Chelsea's sitting right over

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