Lent: day 34

What is your favorite thing about spring?

Nature finds a way. It finds a balance. The first lesson that Luke offers Rey in, The Last Jedi (2017) sums up spring, and the natural order, for me.

Luke: Breathe. Just breathe. Now reach out. What do you see?
Rey: Light. Darkness. A balance.
Luke: It’s so much bigger. What do you see?
Rey: The island. Life. Death and decay, that feeds new life. Warmth. Cold. Peace. Violence.
Luke: And between it all?
Rey: Balance and energy. A force.
Luke: And inside you?
Rey: Inside me, that same force.
Luke: And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?
Rey: There’s something else beneath the island. A place. A dark place.
Luke: Balance. Powerful light, powerful darkness.
Rey: It’s cold. It’s calling me.
Luke: Resist it. You went straight to the dark.
Rey: That place was trying to show me something.
Luke: It offered something you needed. And you didn’t even try to stop yourself.
Rian Johnson, George Lucas, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (Walt Disney Pictures, Lucasfilm). 2017.