Star Wars Serenity Prayer (Religion, Science Fiction, and Intertextuality)

IO9 shared several variations on familiar cross-stitch productions that combine those iconic offerings with sci-fi or other elements. Here’s one example:

Of course, for many people a “Serenity Prayer” already has overtones of religion and science fiction combined. 🙂

But I think the image actually illustrates the words of the prayer remarkably well. If you had been one of the main characters of the original Star Wars trilogy, which category would you have put Leia’s imprisonment by Jabba the Hut? Would you have had the wisdom to know the difference? 🙂