Fear not, little flock*

by chuckofish

So I guess the Oscars were presented on Sunday night. Who knew? Who cared? I had not seen any of the movies and I hardly recognize any of the actors anymore.

As is our custom we picked a great movie to watch that did not win the prizes it deserved in the past. We chose The Russians Are Coming the Russians are Coming (1966) which was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Alan Arkin), Best Writing, Best Editing and won nothing. It was the year any of Best Actor nominees deserved to win except the actor who won.

Anyway, we watched it and howled with laughter. If you need a good laugh (and who doesn’t), I recommend it highly. Remember, it features my spirit animal, Muriel Everett (Doro Merande)…

and Parker Fennelly, playing the OM. What a great cast!

On a more serious note, here’s a good answer from Kevin DeYoung to the question “How should I deal with prayerlessness in my life?” He even manages to get a dig in at the BCP (while recommending getting an old version before “it got goofy.” How right he is.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLf4L4ollp8

And here’s a story about a bear:

“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He was made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”

–Stephen Charnock (1628-1680)

*Luke 12:32