Still One of My Favorites

This post remains to be a favorite post with readers and with me. I love the movie and love the information you can find searching for the baseball players. The doctor is even based on an actual character. Here's the link to read it for your pleasure and enjoyment! Click HERE.

Celebrating the last few weeks of Summer.

Teachers are reporting in, families stocked up on clothing and supplies are trying to get in one last chance to take a mini vacation before the business of classes begin. Mothers, like me, put on a smile while my heart weeps because I won't have the children at home any longer. I was never one that did somersaults when the buses rolled up but laughed at the antics of friends that did {giggle font}. As a teacher, it was a delightful time to meet new little ones and also be near our daughters as they attended classes. I was blessed with a career I loved and enjoyed. To also work with some of your best friends was an added blessing.

How are you celebrating these last few weeks?!?! AND, are you one of the many that have decided to homeschool this year?!  With dedication and planning, I'm a supporter of those wishing to make sure their children are learning not only basic, needed skills, but also able to work in field trips, extra studies, and bible lessons that public schools either cannot or find it difficult with the financial strain. I am not a supporter of CORE and would love to see it taken off the lesson plans in Alabama. Getting the answer right, but missing the problem because the steps were wrong doesn't make sense to me. Seriously. Look at past generations and the technology that has hit the world! And we did it without CORE. Okay, I'll get off that bandstand {wink font}.

Summer is a'goin' and Autumn she is approaching. I am SO an Autumn and Winter gal and shed no tears as Summer eases out. As your family gets ready for another school year or you watch your grandbabies step up into another grade, I'll be praying for us. For courage to face the fact they're growing much too quickly, peace and calm as we settle into football Saturdays and cooler temps, and that God will show great might in allowing America to have a President that will not take us into a Socialist state and a nation whose leaders refuse to acknowledge God. Prayers are needed more than ever for our nation and her leaders. God bless and keep us near Him as we draw closer to the November election. May He bless you and yours ~

Field of Dreams ~

To roughly quote IMDb "Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field,

"If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field." Shoeless Joe is the main baseball character in this film but there are others that prompted me to Google this story, just to learn more about these men ~ their lives, their dreams.

I have always loved this movie, but it stirred something different within me today as I watched a rerun on CMT. Shoeless Joe is the main character on the field, but the one that captured my heart this afternoon was Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham. Moonlight Graham played in minor leagues for years, and only played in one major league game. The batter ahead of him struck out, ending the game. Moonlight never got the chance to bat. He became a physician and faithfully served the people of Chisholm, Minnesota for fifty years. The part of the movie where he steps across the field line is one of the most dramatic scenes in the story. Several players ask, "Is this Heaven?" and Costner always responds, "No, it's Iowa." Toward the end of the film, Costner asks one of the players, "Is there a Heaven?" and the answer? "Oh yeah, it's the place dreams come true." When those words were said today, I literally got goosebumps, and a lump in my throat. It triggered what I saw, what I felt, what I know to be true. Heaven, Paradise is the place where dreams come true. It is far greater than we can understand. So when you watch this movie ~ and do get it soon and refresh it upon your heart ~ remember, for His children there is a Place where dreams do come true. And it waits for us. Moonlight Graham and Shoeless Joe had their dreams materialize on a baseball field in Iowa. My dreams will materialize on a far greater plane and will truly be out of this world.