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Here are some photos of Finn the lion at school

From the Central church of Christ (Nashville, TN) bulletin, 1 Jan 2006:

The following story illustrates how one perspective makes a difference in the way he or she interprets the events that occur. It also illustrates that the Lord works in unusual ways.

There was a little old lady, who every morning stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD!" One day an atheist moved into the house next door. He became irritated at the little old lady. Every morning he'd step onto his front porch after her and yell: "THERE IS NO LORD!"

Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day.

One morning, in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! Please Lord, I have no food and I am starving, provide for me, oh Lord! The next morning she stepped onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there. PRAISE THE LORD!" she cried out. "HE HAS PROVIDED GROCERIES FOR ME!"

The atheist neighbor jumped out of the hedges and shouted: "THERE IS NO LORD. I BOUGHT THOSE GROCERIES!!" The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! HE HAS PROVIDED ME WITH GROCERIES AND MADE THE DEVIL PAY FOR THEM!

Watch this:

Friday night we went to see Midland play in the first round of the high school football playoffs.  The weather wasn't the best, but Midland came back to pull out a victory.  On Saturday the boys both finished their soccer seasons with good performances.  Saturday afternoon we watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory for movie night.  The kids seemed to enjoy it.  Then we caught the last half of a Northwood volleyball game.  It was competitive, but they lost in three straight games.

Tonight I finished watching Borat (2006,R) (ScreenIt! Review).  From Wikipedia:

[Borat]...is a 2006 Academy Award-nominated mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles. It stars the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role of a fictitious Kazakh journalist, traveling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans. It is the second film built around one of Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show, following Ali G Indahouse, which also featured a cameo by Borat.

It wasn't as enjoyable as I was expecting.  I'd probably already seen too much of it ahead of time...knew too much of what to expect.  The most entertaining segments came near the end...Borat with the holy rollers and Borat throwing a sack over Pam Anderson to kidnap her and make her his wife.

I give it 4 out of 5.