Feed Me, Seymour
Plan Nine From Outer Space. ValociPastor. Little Shop of Horrors. I love “B” movies. Pretty much anything by Roger Corman…
Do I have to issue a “spoiler alter” on a 62 year old movie? Mushnick’s Flower Shop, Audrey Jr., a very young Jack Nicholson. “Feed me, Seymour, I’m hungry!”
How are you getting spiritually fed? Starvation diet? Well balanced diet? Over indulge on occasion? I was in a Bible study led by Pastor Dan, he was trying to make a point and remarked, “If you remember last Sunday’s sermon…” And I didn’t… Sure, I remembered the big picture, however, I was missing some of the finer detail. We eat two or three meals a day plus maybe a snack or two; what did I have for lunch yesterday? Let me think about it for a minute. When the chef asks if you could taste the difference between this week’s chicken and last week’s because “I added a soupçon of thyme…” I wonder, did I have chicken last week?
Sometimes though, there are the meals you will always remember. Thanksgiving at Grandma’s: her oyster stuffing, your aunts seven layer Jell-O, all the desserts. Or the time you thought you could salvage the burnt sauce. The time you had coffee and a scone and an amazing conversation. Trying to replicate your mother’s recipe that she would make just for you. The night you had Taco Bell before that life altering day.
Feed me, Seymour, I’m hungry. I may not remember the meal tomorrow, however, it is nourishing me today.
In those days, when there was again a large crowd and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples and said to them, “I feel compassion for the crowd because they have already stayed with me three days and do not have anything to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way.
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8&version=EHV>
When the hour had come, Jesus reclined at the table with the twelve apostles. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
He took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves, for I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, he took the cup after the supper, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is being poured out for you.
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2022&version=EHV>
At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
So Jesus said to them, “Amen, Amen, I tell you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the Last Day. For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like your fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+6&version=EHV>
By the way Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead. Ask your VelociPastor.
Trust the Promises
Steve Skiver
(This has been my approximation of a B movie!)