spiritual ingenue

Woo Hoo! Bring on the sand and surf because it's summertime! I survived my daughter's preschool graduation, the end of the year program for my 3 year olds, my son's End Of Second grade festivities, the Jacksonville Film Festival where hubby was on staff, and various long distance family issues that demanded my attention.

I'm ready to chill out and to write, and I have a dozen posts I'm putting together. Last night, a girlfriend and I went to see the new Star Wars movie, and we stayed up half the night talking about the spiritual aspects of the characters and plot. I left the movie feeling so incredibly sad at Anikan Skywalker's choice to turn to the Dark Side, even though we all knew he would. I have been thinking of how he made the decision out of a purely motivated heart of love. He went the wrong direction, but in his mind it was for the right reason. It was a bad means to a good end.

How many times do we choose to go down the wrong road, focusing on the fact that that the end result will be good? It makes it easier to make the choice, the cost worth the reward, when we justify having to walk through the bad to reach the good that we want. No pain no gain, right? If I'm being honest, there are times when I minimize the reality of my choices so that it doesn't seem so bad. Does that ever happen to anyone else?

Don't know where I'm going with that, or if it makes sense because it's late, but those are my thoughts this evening.

G'night friends.