I am mostly into the board games on there, I have several of them and I find them to be every bit of fun that some of the big expensive mainstream ones are. But from time to time I have gone into the fashion one, I recently backed a belt made from used bicycle tires. I also have from the same person, a wallet made from them as well.
I backed a technology start up called Lima, which allows me to set up a device on my network that will act like my own personal cloud. Space is limited only to the size of hard drive that I put on it. All my music, stories, and whatever else I wish to back up will be available to me on almost any device. If I bought two of them, I could even set up a back up at another location to help assure I never lose a file.
I have card decks, po(r)ker chips, (Which might be some of the best ceramic poker chips out there, mostly because they have the commandments of bacon and cute little piggies on them.) metal dice, poker chips, and soon coins with a tinker/steampunk feel to them.
Sure Kickstarter has problems, sometimes the thing you feel is so awesome you don't know why anyone wouldn't want to back it, fails to find its audience in the massive sea of other things. Or sometimes the person you funded falls flat and you never get what you backed them for. It is frustrating, but it is all part of the thrill and fun of the hunt.
I talk about cool projects or try talking others into something I found on there fairly often. If I had more money, I would back so many more of them. Sometimes there are ones that look cool, I just can't afford to back it at that moment. It also makes you feel rather good, you donate money to help start someone on the path of their dreams. Dreams that you have no invested in and hope they turn out amazing.
Someways I think our lives are like the Kickstarter website, and God is like the ultimate backer. He has donated so much to helping us fulfill our dreams and invested endlessly in an effort to make these dreams into something rich and amazing. The best product we could produce. Yet we often fail to meet the goals we set out to meet at the beginning, and like some Kickstarter projects, get overwhelmed by it all.
It is hard to see sometimes, with all the pain and suffering, all the hate and intolerance out there, that God has chosen to back us with all that he is. All we have to do is give all that we are to him. When we do that, we can live the dream we have wanted. God said he will give it to us, several times Jesus says ask and you will receive. But no where does anyone ever say that we will get it all while living on Earth.
Contrary to what some people say out there, God never promised riches and big houses. Never did he mention that if we follow and love him he will give us fast cars to park in our over sized garages. But he did tell us that whatever we lose in His name, we will receive tenfold in heaven. In heaven, is where our ultimate prize waits for us. It is there, at the foot of our God, that we can finally have our whole dream realized.
It is hard to do, but I hope to make God's investment in me, worth it. I hope that I can turn it into somehting more and more for His glory. I want to be who I really am, living my dream, with God right there with me. God is our Kickstarter, Jesus is our backer and his spirit is our funding. So let's get out there and create the ultimate project to honor and glorify our God.
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