I opened the door and was face to face with the devil. Along with the devil was a bloody corpse. But I had no fear. They had no power to fool me. It was Halloween, and I quickly saw right through those masks to the innocent children behind them.
“Trick or treat!” the children called out in unison. I smiled as I passed out candy to my costumed visitors in response, an annual tradition in the United States that has been adopted in a handful of other countries.
Yet it occurred to me that this scene is one each of us faces daily. The five material senses repeatedly knock on the door of human thought and attempt to trick us into believing that what they tell us is true by parading an endless array of “masks” of a sick and sinful mortal, which they believe are real.
