Light

Last week we did lots of fun things for Easter, but one of the favorites of the boys was our nightly family devotion time. We used candles to do sort of a backwards Advent thing. On Palm Sunday we had all 6 candles lit (5 white ones and one red one). Then each night after that we would blow one candle out to show that the light was getting dimmer as it got closer to the death of Jesus. The boys loved blowing out the candles each night. So Friday night we had blown out of the candles except the red one as we talked about Jesus dying on the cross. Then we blew out that one and it was totally dark. Joshua did NOT like that it was dark. Daddy kept talking and telling more of the story, but Joshua kept making little comments about it being too dark and maybe we should turn on the lights. Then he said, "I wish if there was an angel here." So we asked him why he wished that and he said, "Because then there would be a lot more light in here!". So cute. Our hymn for the week, which we sing at the end of devotion time, was "Up From the Grave He Arose". So we told Joshua he could turn on the light when we got to the chorus (since the verse talks about Jesus being in the grave, then on the chorus He arises). When we got to that part, Joshua turned on the light (with us thinking what a great effect it would have) and we're all covering our faces and closing our eyes because it's so bright after being pitch dark in the room. We stumbled through the rest of the song, but it didn't quite have the same impact that we were hoping. :o)