"Only a Sith Deals In Absolutes"

One of the classic lines of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is after Darth Vader says to Obi Wan, "If you're not with me, you're against me." Obi Wan then replies:

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

Being someone that does believe in absolutes, I have often paused to think about Lucas' choice of words in that climactic fight scene between good and evil.

I believe in absolute truth. I believe in a God in Heaven and in right and wrong. I believe in His words and His commandments. I know that God lives and so by living by faith I trust in His omniscience and understand my own weakness before him.

There is great truth though to the phrase, "The more I learn the more I know that I don't know." This is becoming more and more true to me. The more I learn, the more I feel that I don't know enough of myself to be able to have an opinion of so many things that I have an opinion of!

The further our journey takes us into that vast universe of knowledge, the more we realize it truly is a universe and not our elementary school library.

The more we learn more about ourselves and our true character, the less judgemental and critical we are of our neighbor.

The more we learn regarding our world the less likely we are to prescribe solutions to all of its problems.

The more we learn about the lives of our neighbor the more reliant we become on our heart and less on our minds in how we treat them.

The more we learn of our earth, the more we accept that our theories are only stepping stones to future understanding.

The more we learn of the stars, planets, their motions and the great expanse of the heavens the more we realize the weakness of even our greatest technologies to measure & understand them.

The more we know God, the more in awe we become.

The more we learn, truly learn, it seems that Lucas was right again as Master Yoda said to the Jedi Apprentice Luke Skywalker, we "must unlearn that which we have learned."

Let life be for us a quest for freshness, for greater light, greater truth and always trusting in God who truly does know the answers to our questions.