I recently read "The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi". It's pretty good, for a kid's book. And I love Obi-Wan, so I HAD to read it.

There's a particular scene that's sticking with me: Obi-Wan, during his exile on Tatooine, comes across the remains of a Tusken camp. He suddenly realizes, with the help of the Force, that this is where Shmi Skywalker died, and that the darkness he senses is from Anakin's rampage.

He is angry with Qui-Gon, or rather Qui-Gon's ghost, for not telling him. Qui-Gon tells him that he kept it from him for the same reason he keeps the truth of Luke's father to himself. He wasn't ready.

Well, Obi-Wan is ticked off, and Qui-Gon tells him he still isn't ready, and vanishes.

How rude! Well, he was right, Obi-Wan wasn't ready. Why? He finds out after his death, at the time of Anakin's death, when he reaches out to his former Padawan and saves him from oblivion.

"Why me, Master?" Anakin asks in his contrition.

And at the moment Obi-Wan realizes that it wasn't the knowledge that he wasn't ready for, it was forgiveness. He wasn't ready to forgive Anakin until that moment.

But I wonder something. How could he forgive him? How could anyone forgive such betrayal, and the atrocities that followed? Was saving Luke enough to redeem him for everything he'd done?

Or was it as Obi-Wan answered him, "Because you ended the horror."

Well, that maybe true, but you're a better person that I am, Obi-Wan. I would have let him rot in all nine of the Corellian hells. Oh, I can let things go... go past that is, and move on, but I can hold a grudge for a long time!

Perhaps it's the Jedi way. Or perhaps it's the heart and wisdom of Obi-Wan.

Whatever it is, it's beyond my comprehension!