Kai is a very creative person. We have done our best to encourage him in this area!
Recently I (Angela) was teaching Genesis in Germany. The very first verse, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” uses the Hebrew word ‘Bara’ for create. This word in the Bible is only used for when God creates – he uniquely has a power of creating that is unlike ours! And yet, he does call humanity to be in his image, and we are also creators, but with a small c. We can only take the things that God has made already and refashion them, combine them, carve them, etc. But it is one of the things that gives us the most joys as humans – think of when you have created a work of art, baked a beautiful cheesecake, planted a new garden, built a deck, or built a new game…
Built a new game? Yes! Our family really loves playing games together. All kinds of games- deck building games, engine building games, strategy games, even games of chance (but less so). We are not really fans of cooperative games (where there is a goal everyone is trying to achieve- we like to compete against each other!)
Kai has been dreaming up games for probably the past year or two. He thinks of a theme like nature or food or something, and then he designs a challenge, cards, characters, etc. He really has come up with some great ideas. Sometimes he is sad because he thinks it is impossible for him as a little kid to actually publish one of these games. I keep telling him to write all of these ideas down. One day he might be a professional game designer and he will be sad if he doesn’t have a record of these games! Last week he began his game journal- we will see what the future brings.
