A Beautiful Contradiction

As has already been stated, my writings have finally found a home. With a new location, I realized they needed a catching, yet thought-provoking name. After much debate, “A Beautiful Contradiction” was born. I think it’s perfect. We shall see, but here’s the logic and reasoning behind the name…

Everything about me seems to be a contradiction: I am an athletic musician, an extroverted introvert, an eternal being living a finite life, someone who desires God but doesn’t act like it, one whose needs and beliefs are “worlds apart” (Jars of Clay), serious yet goofy, a whore that will inherit the greatest Kingdom… Despite the contradictions, I am fearfully and wonderfully made; I am beautiful- a beautiful contradiction.

I think the idea of contradictions came as a result of musings on the latest installment of the cinematic The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Although the musings about the movie were many, one in particular stuck out. At one point the professor is trying to challenge Caspian. Paraphrased he said, “You have the chance to be the greatest moral contradiction in history: The Telmarine that saved Narnia.” Caspian could have lived up to the terror and evil of his heritage or he could break that mold, go against “who he was”, and save Narnia. I really felt as if some great truth was to be gleaned from his challenge. I came away with this-as Christians we are to be moral contradictions: earthly, sinful beings living life for Christ; total opposites, total contradictions. It truly is beautiful.