Joe vs. the Volcano

It's one of my favorite movies and not because of the goofy self-defacing humor or ridiculous plot devices.  Nor is it because of the amazing music and soundtrack.  It's not even the obvious use of production design to create thematic elements throughout the story.

No it's because of the one liners.  These singular lines which rise above their ludicrous settings and seem to touch on truths that everyone knows but only from a long forgotten dream.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

Joe Banks: I've got to do it. I've got to be Brave, I've got to jump.

Joe Banks: I've never been to L.A. before.
Angelica: What do you think?
Joe Banks: It looks fake. I like it! 

Patricia: I don't know what your situation is but I wanted you to know what mine is not just to explain some rude behavior, but because we're on a little boat for a while and... I'm soul sick. And you're going to see that.  

Joe Banks: So I'm not sick? Except for this terminal disease? 

Angelica: I have no response to that.

Joe Banks: But there are certain times in your life when I guess you're not supposed to have anybody, you know? There are certain doors you have to go through alone.

Patrica: My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement.
Joe Banks: I've been miserable so long, years of my life wasted. Been a long time coming here to meet you. A long time on a crooked road.

Patricia: Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?

My favorite comes at the climax of the film.  Joe and Patrica are stranded on his floating luggage, drifting through the sea.  One night after days of dehydration, the moon rises over their makeshift raft.




I find myself saying a similar prayer

God, Who's name I know. 

Thank you for my life. 

I forgot how BIG...You are...You made my life. 

Thank you for my life.

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"No more for me thanks I'm full..."

The holidays are over and if you are anything like me you are fastening your belt one more notch out.  My family loves to cook and eat and it seems that the only break from food was for laughter.  Every meal I'd push myself away from the table and say, " No more for me thanks, I'm full." Then only a few hours later I'd heat up the leftovers and repeat.  Eat. Laugh. Repeat.      At Thanksgiving my parents began our meal with a simple prayer of thanks that turned into 20 minutes of heartfelt gratitude. At the Amen, we looked at each other and smiled because those minutes of thanks had filled our hearts so much that food wasn't needed. We still ate it but not out of hunger or want. We ate the meal out of that same spirit of thanksgiving.         I think of the 23rd Psalm " My cup overflows". My stomach is full. My heart is full. My head is full. My faith is full. My spirit is full.  I'm full and still the Lord keeps poring. My prayer is that the excess of my life may flow over into those around me and that they may find themselves pushing away from the table saying, " No more for me thanks, I'm full."