Reality and Fiction and all that

Dreamers toe that line that blurs truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. We don't toe the line, actually, we dance on it. A delicate dance of passion and beauty and delusion. A tightrope performance, if you will.
On the one side there is the danger of forgetting to actually live, falling into a complete other world with no solid grounding. The other side is the one where we start realizing that your small 'reality' isn't all there is and that scares you.

It's a beautiful, dangerous tightrope.

There is no mistake that God gave us imagination for a reason. It is a gift, and it can be used for good or for evil.
Many fear fiction. It allows you to escape to somewhere else entirely, though God put us on Earth (to live boring lives?! I don't think so). It makes you lose yourself, it is dangerous, it should be shunned.

While it is true that there are many dangers in fiction, especially if it is allowed to become too real, I also wonder at those who spend their days in the same routine, perhaps more "grounded" than I'll ever be, but do not allow their minds to wander, to create, farther than perhaps a more streamlined way to get from point A to point B.

We are supposed to believe in the extraordinary. We were created by and serve a God who is mighty in battle, overwhelming in love, a doer of what we would otherwise consider impossible. He leads armies of angels in battles and creates miracles big and small. I feel that sometimes we forget that.
Yes, our stories are big. Our God is bigger.

Are you afraid of fiction because it appears to be too dangerous to handle, too consuming to control?
Are you afraid of something bigger and stronger than yourself?
Here's a hint: God is bigger than those fictional worlds. Fiction is actually smaller than we are, because it is inside our minds. If dragons are too much for you, you're going to be pretty frightened by reality. God is bigger and more fantastic and mighty than dragons. You can't put God in a box and forget that he's big and he's incredible and He knows of everything we can imagine and everything past what we can imagine.

So imagination is what helps us to be able to believe
a. that there is more to reality than what we see
b. that there are amazing things are possible

The best part is that the most amazing things are actually real.

Imagination also serves another purpose. Remember how we were created in God's image?
God is a creator.
He gave us that ability to create.

I am a writer and an artist. Creating things and imagining things are practically my life. It's kind of like a sub-creation sort of deal–basically everything I am possibly able to write is some form of fanfiction of the stuff God's already written–but the feeling of making something new is still there. When I spend countless hours thinking about the different facets of my characters' personalities, it reminds me of how God knows us that well and better. He created us, He took care in creating us. He shaped us perfectly in each detail. It's no coincidence that you love grape soda and absolutely can't stand olives. There's sort of a bond between a creator and fiction that resembles the bond between God and us.

It's just, the cool part is that whatever God writes is bigger than fiction.

Whatever God creates becomes real.

Now, I realize that not everyone is all that creative. And that's okay, because God didn't make everyone in the same way. I've noticed that while some people (like me) can get to know God better by imitating him and creating, others get to know him by exploring and discovering what He's already made–whether that is literal exploring or via science or even math–they find Him in discovering how His creation works, etc.
Of course, there are many more categories, but I suppose my point is that imagination is as legit as science or construction or anything else God gifted you with and it's important and shouldn't be looked down upon as juvenile.