My son is 7 years old, and in these 7 years I’ve learned more from him about life than I could’ve imagined.

I remember the day I gifted Haven one of our biggest lego purchases we’ve ever got him, an AT-AT walker. 
He was ecstatic, and finished building the whole set on his own. He proceeded to play with it for the next week. But after a week or two went by, I walked into his room only to find the AT-AT disassembled and turned into several other different lego creations.

Inside I felt like Luke when he first learned that Darth Vader (spoilers) was his father, “NOOOOOOoooo! NOT THE AT AT!!”

That whole creation that I would’ve kept on a shelf to admire, the gift we gave him was “ruined.”

Taken apart. Destroyed.

And then it hit me. In the head. 

“Ouch! Haven, why did you throw that…”
“And why did you take that apar…”

And then it hit me.

He is a true creator. He doesn’t care about how the set was supposed to be or what the manual says he should do with the build.

He doesn’t care about putting together legos to just let them sit on the shelf either.

He builds solely for the love of building. The love of creating. Legos are a tool for him to build whatever he wants. Legos are simply the paint for the canvas of his imagination.

This is the state of a true creator.

So I stopped myself from asking the question why and I sat there in admiration, as a proud dad.

I was proud that he wasn’t confined to what other people wanted him to do or what the instructions said for him to do.  I was proud that he was able to think out of the box, and see that life is something that he has control to create.  That he was simply in his purest state: creating.

And as he excitedly told me about all the new legos that he has just built, I realized that my job as his parent wasn’t to tell him what to do or who to become, but rather my job was to preserve the purity of his childlike wonder for as long as I could.

“Jesus overheard them and said, “I want little children to come to me, so never interfere with them when they want to come, for heaven’s kingdom realm is composed of beloved ones like these! Listen to this truth: No one will enter the kingdom realm of heaven unless he becomes like one of these!”

Matthew 19:14 TPT