Family Movie Night

My two boys are still too young to understand the big issues ahead of them, but I am already identifying movies that will someday help their mom and me reinforce their future understanding of God, religion, war, sacrifice, history, love. You know, all the stuff that adults struggle with, yet we want our children to surf over without being hurt.

Given this is Holy Week, I had to reacquaint myself with a movie lighter than Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, and more contemporary than the Charlton Heston classics;

Jerry, the grocery manager at Food World, (played by John Denver) watches God (played by George Burns) leave the courtroom in the movie’s final scene…

"If you find it hard to believe in me," says God, "maybe it would help
you to know that I believe in you."

"Trust me," says God, "like it says on the money."

Funny, and relevant. Oh God gets two thumbs-up for Easter and Passover entertainment.