Excerpt from Chapter Five: “A Shopping Trip”
Brian pointed to the piece of tomato on his plate. “We learned why this looks red.” He paused. “And why your shirt, Andy, looks blue.”
Collin tugged on his own green and white striped shirt saying, “Mine shirt, mine shirt.”
“Yes,” said Danielle, “your shirt too, Collin. We read about why each green stripe looks green and each white stripe looks white.”
“Did you learn why Dad’s hair is black?” asked Andy.
“Oh yes,” Brian said, nodding confidently.
“Why?”
“Because God made him that way.”
Sound fun? Throughout “Light of the World,” God’s creation and His word are part of the Edwards family’s daily interaction. “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise… You shall write them on the doorposts of your house…” (Deut. 6:6-7, 9a, ESV) Talking about important things as a family doesn’t have to be fancy. Just look at the Edwards family: it can take place “when you walk by the way”!
For more encouraging pictures of family life, read “Light of the World” the new living science book about light.
