While getting our flashlights ready for our outside walk Sarah asked were we also making s'mores? Because of course that is what my children of think of at night in the summer- what could be better?
We managed just a few minutes of "Look how well we can see these rocks with the light? Almost better than when the sun is shining!" and "See how the beam shows us where we can walk?" Sarah realized it was actually getting dark. Too dark for games, and definitely too dark for any singing of "Thy Word." Sarah begins begging, "Mommy, please can we GO INSIDE! I am getting scared!" Somehow fear was not supposed to be part of this process- how proud I was feeling that moment. So before big sister had even managed to join us, we had returned inside where even the darkened family room felt too spooky.
The evening ended in overtired tears from a week busy with dance recitals and grandparents visiting and bedtime without even a marshmallow.
Surely there are times that feel too dark even for God. Loving this Word that reminds me Jesus is the Word made flesh and the Word made light.
*We must find profound theological significance of this treat so we can include in Bible learning somehow.The trinity works, right??
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