Thanks to UnrefutedSpirit on Twitter for the blog title. He won the contest!
Think of these blog postings and tweets as an advent calendar: you open them up and they are little pieces of Star Wars and Advent thoughts to get you one step closer to feeling getting into the Christmas spirit.
Mary was pure, and found favor with God. She was also engaged to be married to a descendant of David. Both the spiritual and the practical were needed for her election to be the mother of Jesus.
She is a lesson to all Jedi. We may speculate if here Midichlorians were high, but there is no question about her humility, innocence and willingness to hear God and obey him.
If the angel Gabriel, in real life - right, an actual angel, one of the major ones too, completely powerful like a superhero, but let me emphasize, A REAL ANGEL, came to you and said "God has blessed you" I do believe you'd flip out. I would, at least.
Mary did believe, though. This is pretty amazing. I don't do drugs, but I'd be thinking that I was tripping if an angel appeared to me. I've heard people say that the Western world does not see much of the spirit realm, perhaps because we are not tuned in to it, or maybe because super natural type phenomenon does not happen here as much as third world nations, but to see an angel would be crazy, I think, even if you lived in those parts of the globe. Then to have the angel talk to you and say, "Dude, chill" and then tell you that you are going to have a baby, and that that baby is going to be God incarnate, come down to save us. This is the kind of wild stuff that science fiction is made of.
Looking into this a bit, it seems Mary then goes and walks 60 miles to go see her cousin Elizabeth, who Gabriel tells her is having a baby too (John the Baptist).
How many millions of people before (and after) Mary believed in the messiah coming, and she gets to see, the Word, true God from true God, light from light, come into being as a baby.
My youngest son is 7 months old, and so I see babyness all the time. To cradle baby Jesus must have been bizarre to say the least.
How does this effect Star Wars? In my book Star Wars Jesus I ask how it was people in the Star Wars universe first heard of the Force in the first place. The idea I speculate on (though I am not an extended universe fan at all) is that in the same way in our world God knew that he would have to become flesh, that his words would have to become flesh, so too the Force might have to have become flesh to be the fulfillment of the Force.
Now you can make the obvious parallels of Anakin the father, Luke the son and Obi-wan or even the Force itself as Holy Spirit, and that at Christmas time you might in a Star Wars universe think of Anakin being born from apparent father. Though these are most certainly true, I think the Force goes back much farther, and the son, Luke, does not end up with a message of how to live the Force that changes the world inextricably. Hmm, maybe I am convincing myself of this, but in this advent season I am reminded of the Force itself becoming man - and though I love Anakin and Luke, I am looking for a more sinless character. And less violent.
That's all for now. Use the Force for knowledge and defense.
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