During Christmas break, our friends/distant relatives in our quad went home for the holidays and asked us to check their mail for them. They also let us use their Netfilx subscription because they weren't there to use it and would have cost the same to them if we used it or not. One of the movies we got was
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. This was the first Indiana Jones movie, the one where the find the ark of the covenant in Cairo. It's a pretty great film.
During the movie the French archeologist who worked for the Nazis was talking about how great a find the ark of the covenant would be. He said something like, "It's a transmitter. It's a radio for speaking to God!"
Too bad they didn't think of prayer.
That's a whole lot easier to use and way more effective.
I think this shows us how much we as a people
- like to do things on a grand scale instead of a simple scale
- like to use tools instead of faith
- focus on the tangible instead of the intangible.
Prayer is one of the simplest acts we can do. But sometimes we can make it some of the complicated.
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I like the line in the hymn, "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try." It is simple and effective! I'll bet Little Miss O is really good at it.
Yeah, not to mention prayer doesn't blow everyone to smithereens or zap them into oblivion or whatever it did.
Also, "Indiana Jones and The Praying Nazis" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
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