We had too much fun at Family Home Evening last night. (If you can have too much fun at family home evening) We began with a song, "Give Said the Little Stream", accompanied by Abby. The highlight was our lesson on faith. We placed a paper column on their hand and the lit it. We asked them to have faith in us that we wouldn't allow them to be hurt, but that they needed to hold very still and trust us. You can see the results in the video below. It was a great visual lesson in faith. At first they were excited and stood there smiling. Didn't even bother them when we lit the paper on fire. They were kind of excited watching it burn down, and then as it got warmer and closer to their hand you could see their faces get nervous. Their natural reaction to flee fire kicked in. But we reminded them to have faith and they did. Just before the fire burned down to their hand the column lifted up out of their hand and finished burning as it floated in the air. (BTW do not try this with any paper column. It needs to be a Bigelow Tea Bag. No, you don't have to drink the tea, just empty the bag.) When we are presented with challenges we often get the "OK here we go" feeling and head out with faith, but as the challenging times drag on and it gets closer and closer to really hurting do we keep our faith and stand strong, or do we follow the desire to run away? If the kids would have swiped at the fire or tried to dump it off their hand, they might have gotten burned. But as they held strong the fire was miraculously swept away. Notice Cailah's reaction when her "burden" floated away. We should all be so joyous. One more note. I thought after they saw Alyssa do it first the surprise factor would be lost and the demonstration less effective. But if you look at the video below, they reacted pretty much the same way, confident at first, slightly concerned, really nervous toward the end. Alyssa even did it a second time with the same reaction. Again analagous to life. We can watch other people struggle and see them come out ok, but when it is our turn it's still hard. And when it is our turn for the next challenge we go through the same process. Delayna wanted her turn too, but knowing her abilities we had to keep her from the challenge. I think Heavenly Father protects us too when he knows it is beyond our capabilities. Thanks to the sister missionaries for a great lesson idea!
We also had a talent presention last night with the Abby and Cailah each doing a dance and a group dance at the end. Highlights in the second video Kristin so kindly put together. The dance finished with some contortionism.
We ended with Alyssa accompanying us playing "Love One Another." I love having piano playing kids!
Yeah Braydon!
I have no idea how she does this, but she can stay like that forever.
The three amigos.
The definition of joy.
Finally, here we go! It took lots of tries because her small had couldn't hold the column well and her mom was match illiterate.
My turn "pea." Sorry D we draw the line at fire ;0)
See it FLY!
Cool as a cucumber Bray, well, for another few seconds anyway.
3 comments:
Wow, what a dance troupe.
Very fun video, thanks for sharing. I didn't see Mom out there dancing with the kids (let's have that in the next edition).
Where does the fiery paper go after it lifts off the kids hands?
It just floats up until it almost reaches the ceiling, then gently falls back down giving you ample time to catch it on a paper or you can relive the Ghost Buster phenomn and suck it up with the vaccum.
what an awesome object lesson!
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