Why we sing/write/create

Wonderful post here from singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson.  It begins with his brief review on a book that ends with this nugget:  A person is a fool to become a writer.

He then extrapolates on the purpose of art in the Christian life.  Here’s the ending ‘graph:

Those of us who write, who sing, who paint, must remember that to a child a song may glow like a nightlight in a scary bedroom. It may be the only thing holding back the monsters. That story may be the only beautiful, true thing that makes it through all the ugliness of a little girl’s world to rest in her secret heart. May we take that seriously.

It is our job, it is our ministry, it is the sword we swing in the Kingdom, to remind children that the good guys win, that the stories are true, and that a fool’s hope may be the best kind.