A Note from Josh – College & Center Newsletters, January 2019

When I was a child, my grandmother had the VHS movie at her house, We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story. To my delight, the movie has made its way to Netflix! The movie is about a scientist, Captain Neweyes, who feeds the dinosaurs “brain grain” turning them into smart, fun-loving dinosaurs, with the purpose of going to the Museum of Natural History so that children in the modern era can enjoy their presence. But he warns the dinosaurs to avoid his brother, Screweyes, a mad scientist who wants to control dinosaurs for his circus. Of course, the conflict of the story is that Screweyes gets ahold of the dinosaurs and turns them back into their unintelligent, scary dinosaur selves. However, in their trek to find the museum the dinosaurs have befriended a few children who try to rescue the dinosaurs from ol’ Screweyes. When one boy, Buster, shows up at the circus and sees Rex, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, in his beast like state, it makes him sad. He knows that Rex is not like this, that Rex can be good. So, despite the danger, he walks up to Rex and gives him a hug, and he says, “Come on Rex, don’t be like this. Rex means king. Be a king, Rex.” He pleads with him, “Don’t be like this. Don’t be another slob ruining the way the world could be.”

I don’t know what your 2018 was like, but my hope and my prayer for the FPC community is that we not be a bunch of slobs, ruining the way the world could be. To put a positive spin on Buster’s words, in 2019, may we be kings and queens, heirs to the grace of God, who participate in God’s Kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven, Amen? Amen.

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