Halloween or Hallelujah?

When I was a young child, I or rather WE  went trick or treating. My homemade costume turned into a store bought costume to being a teenager playing pranks such as egg and water balloon throwing all the way up to going to masquerade parties bobbing for apples and shaking my booty to club music. The worst thing that happened in my recall of growing up, a neighbor caught us sneaking away from their door or the crazy lady with the cats gave us rotten fruit or the old man who had nothing in his house but liquor always acted as though he forgot it was Halloween so he just reached in his wallet and gave us all of his loose change and one dollar bills in our bag instead of candy. Nowadays, it seems that more people are bypassing door to door knocking altogether and just having community treating (no tricks) and more parents are taking their children to churches for Hallelujah Night even if they aren’t members themselves. I was the last of the lucky ones who got to grow up in a generation of community and everyone knew everybody and all of my friends went out together. Today, my children are afraid to go out on Halloween,  and even suggested going to "church".