Really, what kind of "reality" do you want to live in?

Blogs can make me think, can challenge me, can offend, can feed me.  I recently read two blogs.  The first one is a christian satire that I enjoy, and it was highlighted in a secular paper.  The second was a christian author posing a question regarding churches and developing leadership (I'll think about posting the blog links, but I'm not inspired to at the moment.  Both led to strong dialog in the comments, and this is what I learned:

• Non-christians really do think we are off our rockers for believing in God.  They find it unreasonable, illogical, and weak.
• The non-christians who posted couldn't fathom how we believe in heaven, but were proud to announce they were headed to hell?  Not sure how it is easy to see yourself going to hell and yet find heaven unreasonable?
• Non-christians believe we are unthinking, group-think, naive people. 
• There are a lot of "unchurched" christians out there with bitterness regarding the local church, unforgiveness and unhealed hurt.
• There is a an awful lot of generalizations and stereotyping thrown around as weapons both from non-christians and christians alike
• There are also a lot of justifications and rationalizations based upon personal experience/pain (understandable, right?  Or is it?)

I could go on, but it's depressing.  Instead, I'd like to share these thoughts:

Let's love God and love our neighbor.
Let's be real, not weird
Let's put action behind our words
Let's not give up in the face of disbelief
Let's persevere in humility, not letting mockery stop us
Let's be happy, live life to the fullest, display God's goodness in our attitudes, smiles, words, hands and feet. 
Let's remember that we don't fight against flesh and blood - don't hate them, they don't know what they're doing.
Let's keep kindness in our hearts and on our tongue.  A soft answer turns away wrath.
Let's not lose every connection we have to the world around us.  They need the light we have and if we keep closing the doors, our opportunities will be non-existent.
Let's keep asking questions and listening to the responses
Let's guard our hearts
Let's forgive
Let's be healed.  Let go and be healed.

What reality do I want to live in?  What reality do I want to drive me?  Not the ones I read in the dialog.  I'm going to choose a different reality.  How about you?