Week 1: The Dark Ages
Can you imagine how that sounds to three little boys? The Dark Ages. Their interest was peaked right away.
If we are going to be talking about the preperation for the retoration we should probably start wiith why did we needed a restoration?
Deffinition of Restoration: an act of restoring or the condition of being restored Merraim-Webster
·
the act of restoring; renewal, revival, or
reestablishment.
·
the state or fact of being restored.
·
a return of something to a former, original, normal, or
unimpaired condition.
·
restitution of something taken away or lost.
·
something that is restored, as by renovating. Dictionary.com
Ok Anyways so why a need for this. Well in a small amount of words, Througout the Old Testament is was foretold that the Son of God would condescend and come down to earth to save to redeem the world. And just that happened but first He came and he taught the people and he called 12 men to be his apostles. He gave them keys to act in His name and to help him oraganize his Church on the earth. Just like a police oficer needs authority to act in his duties so did these apostles. Christ put his hands apon them and and gave him His authority. As we know Christ and these apostles were rejected. First Christ then the rest. Slowly his teachings were lost and because his apostles were killed his keys, his authority was gone from the earth. There was a Great Apostacy.
David had great fun telling bedtime stories to the boys of such things as Rome being sacked, Genghis Khan and all the other wars and “exciting” things to little boys. They love weird sounding names and get all excited and crack up laughing when names or words sound very unique.
To explore life in the Dark Dages we spent a day eating grains such as outmeal for breakfast and we had nothing but homemade bread and vegetable broth, and peas for dinner. The boys loved eating the peas with the hands!
The next day (we only did one thing at a time, we discovered it was fun to pretend to be in the dark ages but only one thing at a time), We spent the day by candlelight. Seriously, the boys woke up to candles, got ready for school by candles and we spent the evening together by candlelight.
They had so much fun with this one. My awesome mom had three little lanterns on hand of course, (have you seen her craft room!?) so the boys each had their own to carry around, CAREFULLY.
This has been a fun experience so far and I myself am learning a lot about history but I am also learning a lot about the Lord’s hand in our lives. 2,000 years ago people rejected his Son and brought darkness to the world as we sought power over one another, and pride, greed and envy overshadowed the spread of the word of God, but he did not give up on us. He right away started working through the good people that were still out there which were many. Inspiring them with their minds and hands. It would be a long time before people and the world would be ready to move out of the darkness and into the light but it would happen.
I know that God is in our daily lives. He is inspiring us and guiding us if we will but slow down and listen and then watch and see his hand in our lives in the little tender mercies of love.
