Today we read the story of the first sin in the Garden of Eden, the saddest of days. Our 7 year old read the story tonight with all the voices- Eve, the snake, Adam, God. Inside the countdown box there was a perplexing broken ornament. You never know where an object lesson will be found in my husband's mind. Any guesses to how this ties in?
Old Yosemite Sam, missing a hand, represented Adam grasping the forbidden fruit and as a consequence is beginning to die, separated now from the Tree of Life. We don't know how long Adam would have lived but he was no longer able to eat from this Tree every day. To represent this death we had a chocolate skull. The tree ornament with the snake I made is pictured in Day 1.
I wanted to incorporate more time of worship this year so I am going to (weakly) play a song on the piano or sing every night at the end. I think we will sing the same song for 2 or 3 nights, working through some Christmas related hymns and thinking of classic songs that are often sung without printed lyrics like the Doxology and Amazing Grace. Tonight we ended with Away in a Manger and will continue in hopes that these songs will be familiar by Christmas when we go to Christmas song sing-along services. They grabbed some instruments and tried to sing along.
If you are following along with the Bible in Stories - pages 6-9
If using the Bible or another Bible reader - Genesis 3
"Away in a Manger" found in back of BIS Volume II (ii) or hymnal
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