One More Movie – A Favorite

ByDr. Dan

The last couple of weeks I have written about movies that I should not have attended.  Let me go a different direction today and mention a favorite movie of mine.  I could go back to my early years and mention a couple of films that few of my readers would remember but let me mention one that everyone who ever played catch with their father remembers – “Field of Dreams.”  I have actually visited the site of the movie twice – once shortly after it was made before it became a tourist attraction and the sign said, “Please do not take any of the infield dirt.”  I’m sorry I fell down while walking the bases and while I was re-tying my shoe, sone of the infield dirt jumped into a small bottle.  The second time the place was a huge tourist attraction.  One of the reasons I love the movie, and the movie site, are the great life-quotes from the script.

  • Chance to squint at a sky so blue that it hurts your eyes just to look at it. To feel the tingling in your arm as you connect with the ball. To run the bases … stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That’s my wish.
  • They’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces.
  • Ease his pain.
  • Is this heaven?  No, it’s Iowa.
  • Hey, Dad? You Want to Have A Catch?”
  • The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past.  It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.”
  • We just don’t recognize life’s most significant moments while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “Well, there’ll be other days.” I didn’t realize that that was the only day.
  • Man, I did love this game. I’d have played for food money. It was the game… The sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?
  • If you build it they will come. Reminds me of Jeremiah 29:13 – “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”