When Mercy Walked Beneath the Twin Suns, a STAR WARS Jesus story based on the Episode One story
Chapter One Jesus prayed before the twin suns rose over the desert world, while the night still held the cold that came after hours of burning wind. He knelt beyond the last line of low adobe homes where the sand began to roll toward the open flats, and no one from the port could see Him unless they came looking before dawn. His hands rested open on His knees. His face was lifted toward the Father with a stillness that did not belong to that place of engines, debt, hunger, and fear. The world around Him slept uneasily, but He prayed as though even the sand beneath Him was known by God. By the time the first pale light touched the roofs of the workers’ quarter, the market bells had not yet rung, but already people were moving. A blockade had tightened above the planet for weeks, and the merchants in the port had used it as an excuse to raise prices on everything a family needed to survive. Men argued near closed stalls. Women stood in narrow lanes with empty water tins, waiting f...