Family Night Field Trips, Part II

Sometimes we talk about the plan of salvation with our children in terms of gifts our Heavenly Father has given us - gifts that enable His plan to progress, gifts that make our "immortality and eternal life" possible.   We find ourselves generally focusing on four central gifts (although, of course, there are more): bodies, agency, the Savior, and the Holy Ghost. 

Our first family night field trip centered on the gift of physical bodies, and the gift of agency - our innate ability to choose between right and wrong.

Of course, all of us, at times, make poor choices, disqualifying us from returning to God's presence if it were not for another gift - the most central gift in God's plan for our happiness  - the gift of Jesus Christ. 

Our second field trip took us to the James Tissot "Life of Christ" exhibit at the MOA.

We looked at pictures of the Savior's birth, life, death, and resurrection, and rejoiced that "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

And it was wonderful!
(We'll do a repeat of this field trip again in November when the Carl Bloch (!!) exhibit opens.  And someday, when we don't live next door to a museum replete with religious art, maybe we'll set up our own "gallery"  in the church or in our backyard with pictures from the New Testament gospel art picture kit, etc.  Wouldn't that be fun???)