Darth Vader is My Favorite

What is Your Favorite Disney Character?
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Norah was asked this question by her friend Ella.  And Norah without hesitation said, “Darth Vader.”  What?  Really?  Darth Vader?!

What in the world am I raising here.  Now technically Star Wars is now owned by Disney, so any character in Star Wars is a Disney character.  So, yes, Darth Vader is the correct answer.  But I guess when I think of Disney characters I think, those Disney princesses and I sort of expected Norah to respond to the above question to be answered as any of the numerous Disney princesses. 

Norah is a girl!  My little girl!  She should be liking Disney princesses, right?  Or at least she should be liking the good guys.  But she didn’t answer what I expected.  She answered that her favorite character is Darth Vader.  Darth Vader, the most ruthless, intimidating, powerful dark side Sith lord, dictator, of the Star War’s galaxy.  That is her favorite.

She went from liking unicorns, narwhals, fairies, dolls, cute things, to now liking Darth Vader.  But I think she still likes unicorns and all that cute stuff, but let's just add Darth Vader in the mix now.  But I guess I should have seen it coming.  I mean she has Darth Vader decorated on her purple crocs.  Her crocs are decorated with the Death Star, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader.  Yeah… all bad guys…. She took off the Millennial Falcon, R2D2, and C3PO decoration from her crocs.  She only liked the bad guys apparently. 

So… She likes the Dark Side of the Force apparently.  Well, she isn’t a little girl anymore.  But she is still my girl.  And I also agree, the Dark Side of the Force is Star Wars is so dang cool.  So, I don’t mind it too much, I guess.

Also, for Halloween she went from wanting to dress like frozen characters, to now wanting to be a scary vampire. 

Norah cannot be the same when she was a little baby girl.  She is changing and she will like what she thinks is “cool.”  The things she now enjoys is changing and becoming more diverse.  And it should be.  I cannot expect her to always like princessy things anymore.  She will grow and she will change.

And that is what our faith should be like as well.  As life gets more and more complicated, our faith journey should be expanding and growing.  As we face life challenges, is should also challenge belief as well, not to destroy it but to refine it.  So never think about the way that God spoke to you when you were a child is going to be the same when you are 30 or 50 or 70 or 80 years old.  God is unchangeable, but the way He speaks to you will be different.  God knows what you need and God knows all the things we go through in every stage of our life requires different answers to every challenge in every age with go through. 

We should be going through change in understanding our faith from the song, “Jesus Loves Me” to “Amazing Grace” to “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” to “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less” to Bless be the Tide that Binds.”  These hymns are a reflection of our journey with Christ, from little, to maturity, to aging, to the end, and everlasting.  Life goes from being simple to complicated, and our faith should be growing just the same. 

Just remember the challenges that we face in life, the challenges of our faith and belief are all part of the process to become stronger and getting closer to God.  And never fret about these challenges, because Jesus is there with you guiding you through this process. 

The world may change.  You may change.  Your faith may grow.  But remember what never changes is how much God loves you!  Have confidence in that!

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