{"id":3635,"date":"2025-02-09T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2025-02-09T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:57:15","slug":"one-more-movie-a-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/02\/one-more-movie-a-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Movie &#8211; A Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks I have written about movies that I should not have attended.\u00a0\u00a0Let me go a different direction today and mention a favorite movie of mine.\u00a0\u00a0I 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 &#8211; \u201cField of Dreams.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I have actually visited the site of the movie twice &#8211; once shortly after it was made before it became a tourist attraction and the sign said, \u201cPlease do not take any of the infield dirt.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m 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.\u00a0\u00a0The second time the place was a huge tourist attraction.\u00a0\u00a0One of the reasons I love the movie, and the movie site, are the great life-quotes from the script.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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 &#8230; stretch a double into a triple, and flop face-first into third, wrap your arms around the bag. That&#8217;s my wish.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;ll watch the game and it&#8217;ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they&#8217;ll have to brush them away from their faces.<\/li>\n<li>Ease his pain.<\/li>\n<li>Is this heaven?\u00a0\u00a0No, it\u2019s Iowa.<\/li>\n<li>Hey, Dad? You Want to Have A Catch?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>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&#8217;s a part of our past.\u00a0\u00a0It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We just don&#8217;t recognize life&#8217;s most significant moments while they&#8217;re happening. Back then I thought, &#8220;Well, there&#8217;ll be other days.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t realize that that was the only day.<\/li>\n<li>Man, I did love this game. I&#8217;d have played for food money. It was the game&#8230; The sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?<\/li>\n<li>If you build it they will come. Reminds me of Jeremiah 29:13 &#8211; \u201cYou will\u00a0seek Me\u00a0and\u00a0find\u00a0M<em>e,<\/em>\u00a0when you search for\u00a0Me\u00a0with all your heart.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks I have written about movies that I should not have attended.\u00a0\u00a0Let me go a different direction today and mention a favorite movie of mine.\u00a0\u00a0I 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}