Nerd Alert - There are things I cannot do.

"There are things I cannot do. I cannot watch while people suffer, I cannot sit when something must be done, I cannot judge those who are different. There are things I cannot do. Run, hide, ignore. There are things I cannot do. But there are certainly things I WILL do."

So I have been having a nerd fest this weekend watching the commentary from some of my favorite movies. If anyone can tell me who said that quote, I'll give you 50 Galactic Credits, also known as Republic Dataries, later knows as Imperial Credits. No takers... well credits are hardly of any use outside the Inner Rim any way.

HAHAHAHA It's Star Wars. And while I know it is only a story, a sci-fi fantasy story at that, I still drew much inspiration from this quote. Now for you hard core nerds out there who actually understand this wordy jargon. I know you are scanning your brain to figure out what Episode this is in and who could have said it. Well let me ease your troubled mind and explain that it was Queen Padme Amidala... Yes I said Queen indicating it was Episode I - The Phantom Menace. But in fact it was not. She never said this in any movie, it was a poem she said in a short featurette as a pre-release teaser in 1999.

I am not nerdy enough to know how to put the feturette in here because I can’t find it on you tube so I would have to do some fancy stuff to get it from my DVD to the internet… and it’s probably illegal anyway. You’ll just have to take my word for it: It is awesome!

All that being said I am very encourage by Queen Amidala. Pastor Paul said a few weeks ago that it makes him sad when the secular world of fairytale stories got things right and showed the Christians how it should be. When he said this he was actually referring to the movie Avatar when the Na’vi humanoids on Pandora say Oe-l Nga-ti Kame which translates to I See You. Even though he was talking about Avitar it still it applies to Star Wars as well.

Anyway back to Queen Amidala who was also a senator for the Chommell sector in the Galactic Rebuplic. I wish I had her courage, confidence, and status to just do the right thing even if my life or the life of the ones I loved were in danger. She liberated her people and the entire planet of Naboo from the evil attack of the Trade Federation. The truth is I am not a queen or senator, but I have every ability to be just as courageous and confidant as she was and liberate not just a people but the whole planet.

The same Holy Spirit that lives inside me brought Jesus back to life after his dreaded death on a cross. The Force, which Padme didn’t have because she wasn’t a Jedi, doesn’t hold a candle to the power of the Holy Spirit. That Spirit dwells inside me, it is who I am. But here I sit, to scared to harness that power and liberate a people, a planet, who suffer. I wish the words of Padme were my battle cry.

"There are things I cannot do.

I cannot watch while people suffer,

I cannot sit when something must be done,

I cannot judge those who are different.

There are things I cannot do.

Run, hide, ignore.

There are things I cannot do.

But there are certainly things I WILL do."

-Queen Amidala