It Is Finished!

And so it is!

I just walked into the compound of the church after the 10.20 p.m. show of the Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. The time already showed 12.55 a.m. Something, a thought within me caught my attention and I spent the next 20 minutes wrestling with its implications that I now still can't really fathom fully.

I started as a young teenager, in Melaka, enthralled with the first Star Wars movie way back in 1977. It was the following episode after The Empire Strikes Back- The Return of the Jedi - that really grabbed me by the collar. When I saw the reconstructed Death Star graphic coming out and displayed in the rebel base as they made plans on how to attack it, I wanted to go into computers.

That brought me to Singapore to study computer science later. My journey then began in another country, far from home.

Now after many encounters and experiences, I am now a Singapore citizen and a priest! After watching what is known as the end of the Star Wars story (on film) I can't help but feel somewhat bittersweet as to how all these have changed and formed me to where and who I am today. The Episode 3 and my encounter with it this evening, stirred and resonated something deep within me that says I have now to make a significant decision as to which step to move further from now on. It is now beholden upon me to make a good one.

I have now come full circle with my childhood dreams. It is time to grow up. It is time to learned what good the past held for me and how to proceed from here, as a priest, in good stead. There will be many challenges ahead that will challenge my faith and disposition. In fact I have come to faced some of them already. For better or for worse, I have come out of them a little wiser. I don't pretend to know everything for I know I have very little and most of what I do have come from the my master, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. If he can be called my 'Jedi master' then I am his clumsy padawan! *grin*

As I stood there in the darkness, pondering all these, a gentle breeze blew past. I could almost here a small voice echoing from the distant: remember, the force will be with you... always.