Belonging

The new Star Wars movie is awesome. I saw it in 3D Imax today and that is an experience!

For a little girl who saw her first moving picture on television in black and white at the age of three, this was truly futuristic.

I was there! I flew through space and felt the engines of the craft and explosions and everything else! The only sense not utilized was smell, but maybe that is a blessing.

I don't actually go to a movie theater very often, but if all my experiences could be like this I think I would step it up.

There was so much I loved, but one line by Maz Kanata struck home when she said it. Now I cannot find the exact words anywhere. I suppose that means the world did not find them as important as I did. It was the idea that belonging is in the future.

Most of us connect our belonging to the past, to families where we were born, or places we lived during childhood, or some other formative experience. I think our real belonging comes from the life we build for ourselves over the years, our families of the heart, the energy we invest in our heart's desires, the things worth doing and dying for.

To me that is pivotal.