Hey friends, welcome to the Graceology with Gwen Smith podcast.

I'm Gwen Smith and I'm really glad you're here.

Each week I host two different shows, one with incredible guests and meaningful conversations,

and one called A Moment of Grace, where

it's just me, talking to just you, in a reflective, devotional style to help connect those

busy, bruised, and broken places to the beautiful hope of Jesus. So now I invite you to sit

back and take a deep breath as I share with you a moment of grace.

There's a scene in Star Wars episode four, a new hope, where Princess Leia, Han Solo,

Chabaca, and Luke Skywalker find themselves in the detention level of the death star

in a trash compactor with walls that are closing in quickly. Their efforts to slow the walls down

were ineffective. Leia and Hans tried every way conceivable to brace the wall with something

to stop the progression of eminent death. Che. Jabaka tried to use brute force. Steel

poles were snapped like toothpicks as Luke desperately called out to C3PO on his com link to get

him to shut the system down. Meanwhile, in another area of the Death Star, C3PO thought that the

stormtroopers might have captured a crew, but he couldn't hear

Luke's cry because he had forgotten to turn on his calm, which is that little device that Luke

was calling him on. He asked R2D2 to look for the missing friend, and he began to search for and call

out to Luke Skywalker. Just seconds before our four heroes became pancakes,

squeaky little R2D2 reminded C3PO to connect with Luke via his com link. Thank you. As soon as C3PO

finally turned on his com device, he heard Luke's cry for help and quickly shut down the trash

compactors, saving the four

panicked good guys. They all took a deep breath, hugged one another, and then looked for a way out.

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