I have today, tomorrow and Monday off work. A three-day weekend. A holiday weekend! The holiday? Columbus Day. Columbus Day? What are we celebrating on Columbus Day?
Actually, I don’t really care. I am sure the holiday has rich meaning for some, but it has no particular import for me at all. All I care about is that I don’t have to go to work on Monday.
This month has another event that has no particular significance to me, but apparently has great significance at the office where I work. Halloween. They have a big party on Halloween. Everyone dresses up in costumes and they do a pot luck. I think for them it is a stress reliever as their most stressful season of work begins the next day, November 1 and goes through the end of the year.
I haven’t dressed up in a costume since I was a child – well, except for that clown costume I wore to the convalescent home when we ministered there once on Halloween. This year the group I work with have chosen to be minions. That costume consists of jeans, a yellow shirt, and suspenders.
Though not a fan of Halloween, I am a fan of laughter, cheerfulness and joy. If dressing as a minion brings laughter and cheerfulness and joy to these lovely people I work with, then minion it is!
Proverbs 15:30: “A cheerful look brings joy to the heart ….” [NIV]
