The Dragon and the Mountain Finding Star Wars in Middle-earth

All Are Intertwined A Jedi lives authentically, true to their vocation, only when the lightsaber philosophy is put into action.

A Response to Zam-Eli One can admire the Jedi Code and seek to live up to it, but when things inevitably go wrong and we become arrogant or "too unpredictable", who can we go to for help? Not the midi-chlorians, that's for sure.

Like A Child Even though the experience of watching Return of the Jedi from the trusting eyes of a child can't compare with the beatific vision, what is clear to me is how much more pleasant it is to believe in something than it is to think about it.

Freedom from Ourselves Do Sith have real freedom?

Ani's Choice To Do What Is Valuable "Choosing what is valuable is not so much a question of sticking bravely to the rules [but] about fruitfulness."
~Wil Derkse, The Rule of Benedict for Beginners: Spirituality for Daily Life

"Your son was kind enough to offer us shelter" "Hospitality is a special form of obedience: answering someone's call."
~Wil Derkse, The Rule of Benedict for Beginners: Spirituality for Daily Life

He likes to keep his astromech droid clean; It's a clean machine "There is no sharp division between the sacred and the profane in an abbey." ~Wil Derkse, The Rule of Benedict for Beginners: Spirituality for Daily Life

Rethinking My Lifelong SW Collection "Clutter steals away our time and saps our energy. It takes time and energy to keep it, to take care of it, to find things we need buried under it."
~Susan K. Rowland, Make Room for God: Clearing Out the Clutter

Loving with His love Reflections on this second anniversary of John Paul II's death