Asher's Garden Tomb

I try to spend individual time with each kid on Sundays. During a Micah session engaged in a game of Settlers of Canaan, Asher decided to join the fun by playing with the spare pieces. After about 10 minutes of silence (a world record for Asher by about 9.5 minutes), he looked up over his bent glasses and said, "Look daddy, Jesus' tomb and cross." To my complete surprise, he had managed to reconstruct a rough outline of what he envisioned to be Golgotha and the tomb. After a little more input from me, he successfully finished his model of the Garden Tomb (a.k.a. Gordon's Calvary) complex in Jerusalem. What a proud-dad moment! 

Mary always tells me that Asher is a carbon copy of me. With those disfigured glasses, which appear to be functionally useless, I'm starting to see the resemblance.

The raised portion is Golgotha with the 3 crosses. The center cross does not have a white peg (i.e. Jesus) because this scene is post-death, but pre-resurrection. The row of blocks behind Golgotha depict the spectators at the crucifixion. The red string of blocks represent the path that leads from Golgotha to the tomb. The light orange crusty thing in the bottom left-hand corner is some sort of food remnant from a meal a few days back. Nice touch; completely unintentional artistry. 

Sweet-action closeup of the tomb. The rolling boulder piece in front of the tomb is the perfect, creative touch by Asher. This moment was too priceless not to blog.