I See Beauty Outside of Fantasy Land

One of the things that I don’t love about Christian culture is our propensity to live in fantasy land.

We isolate ourselves.

We try to create our own little world within the world—complete with Christian schools, movies, music, art, jewelry, clothing, video games…

Everything with our “Christian Approved” label on it could exist in a Thomas Kinkade painting.

It’s a Christian fantasy land—cute and heart-warming, but not real.

I know a lot of people see the Thomas Kinkade version of life as beautiful.

I don’t.

I see beauty outside of fantasy land.

I see beauty where the misfits are.

I see God working in the lives of real people outside of fantasy land.

I see second chances being given. I see hurts being healed. I see lives being restored.

And to me, that is a beautiful thing.

It kinda reminds me of the lyrics from Gungor’s song Beautiful Things:

“You make beautiful things out of the dust, you make beautiful things out of us.”